Andrea Nann / Dreamwalker Dance

Two performers weave together passages of remembering and forgetting, inviting the audience into an intimate reanimation of familial memory.

Situated in Vancouver’s Historic Chinatown, Firehorse and Shadow is an autobiography charted in gesture, storytelling, ink painting and shadow puppetry. This dance memoir works against and alongside the hearsay of family stories, Chinese medicine cycles, and zodiac animal signs. Two performers weave together passages of re-membering and releasing, inviting the audience into an intimate reanimation of familial memory. The work unfolds the yin and yang elements expressed within the bodies, lives and choices of four generations of Chinese Canadian women.

The creation of this work was generously supported by the Dance Artist in Residence program at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and by National Ballet of Canada’s CreativAction Open Space program. The original work was commissioned by CanAsian Dance for 2020 KickStart.

Dreamwalker Dance