© Images by Athomas Goldberg
Maamawi: Together Through The Fire is an immersive XR dance project that fuses Anishinaabe cultural narratives with digital storytelling. It explores themes of resilience, connection, and transformation through movement and virtual landscapes.
The project invites audiences into a rich experience, merging tradition with innovation, where the power of dance and ancestral stories guides us on a journey of shared healing and unity.
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2024 |
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23 minutes |
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All ages |
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In English & In Anishinaabemowin |
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Canada |
6 DoF |
Olivia C. Davies
Olivia
C. Davies (Anishinaabe) creates contemporary performance choreography for stage, film, and new media. She is the Managing Artistic Director
of O.Dela Arts, and the Matriarchs Uprising Festival. Her work blends contemporary and traditional forms, exploring themes of identity,
cultural heritage, and resilience, often bringing Indigenous stories to life in engaging, transformative performances.
Athomas
Goldberg
Athomas
Goldberg is a multidisciplinary artist merging traditional and digital arts. His recent work focuses on real-time motion capture for
live and virtual reality performances, blending technology and humanity to create immersive experiences.
■ Produced by O.Dela Arts & Pepper’s Ghost New Media Collective ■ Co-creator,
Choreographer: Olivia
C. Davies ■
Co-creator, MoCap, VR, AR experience: Athomas
Goldberg
■ Co-creator, Visual Design: Joshua
Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley ■
Co-creator, Composer: Michael Red ■ Anishinaabe Cultural Consultant: Gloria
May Eshkibok
■ Dance Artists: Sophie
Dow, Daisy Thompson, Olivia Davies
■ Projection & Audiovisual Playback System Support Team: Chimerik
似不像
■ Lighting Designer, Technical Director: Jonathan
Kim
■ Assistant Lighting Designer: Vanka
Salim
■ Costume Designer: Raven
John ■
Rehearsal Director: Kelly McInnes ■ Stage Manager: Kayleigh
Sandomirsky
■ Supporting Partners: Animatrik
Film Design, Emily Carr University’s Basically Good Media Lab, Alliance Française, HP, Re: Opera