Monday, October 31, 2011
Theatre Fatty Legs
A triumph of the spirit told through music, dance and words
Posted by Kate Watson on Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:34 PM
Tears flowed at the most recent concert by Halifax’s groundbreaking Camerata Xara Young Woman’s Choir. The audience was moved by the stirring music, the jaw-dropping grace, power and beauty of aboriginal dancer Sarain Carson-Fox and, most of all, by the story of a young Inuit girl with an unbreakable spirit who outwits her tormentors at a residential school. The story comes from a children’s book called Fatty Legs, and is the true account of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton’s experiences of life 70 years ago in Catholic residential school. The story became a book co-authored by Margaret’s daughter-in-law Christy-Jordan Fenton. An abridged version of this book was narrated by the two authors and interwoven with crystalline musical pieces by the choir as Carson-Fox enacted the tale through dance. Bravo to all the artists involved in bringing the story to light and life. Stories that touch only the mind may be forgotten, but those, like this, that touch the heart will live forever.
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I know my Dad in the spirit world is smiling a healing heart smile knowing his grand-daughter danced for him and all our relatives who spirits, hearts, mind and bodies were so wounded when they were torn from their families and so mistreated.
I know my Auntie is smiling here in her home as she herself still works through her residential school experience.
I am ever grateful for our creativity that rises up again, again with the beautiful spirit of creation.
I am grateful for the committed, hard ground breaking work of Murray Sinclair
I am grateful for Dr. James Dumont who relentlessly teaches, interprets and passes on our beautiful teachings.
Megwetch
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I know my Dad in the spirit world is smiling a healing heart smile knowing his grand-daughter danced for him and all our relatives who spirits, hearts, mind and bodies were so wounded when they were torn from their families and so mistreated.
I know my Auntie is smiling here in her home as she herself still works through her residential school experience.
I am ever grateful for our creativity that rises up again, again with the beautiful spirit of creation.
I am grateful for the committed, hard ground breaking work of Murray Sinclair
I am grateful for Dr. James Dumont who relentlessly teaches, interprets and passes on our beautiful teachings.
Megwetch
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