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Canoe Theatre Festival: Tanya Tagaq's Nanook of the North
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Starts: Thursday, January 30
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Ends: Thursday, January 30
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In a live concert for film, Tagaq improvises with her voice, a violinist and a drummer to create a soundscape during a screening of the 1922 "documentary" Nanook of the North.
Mesmerizing, inspired and truly original, Tanya Tagaq is a multi-award-winning music artist from Nunavut who has earned internationally acclaim. She has collaborated with an astonishing range of front-rank global artists from Bjork, to the Kronos Quartet to Shooglenifty. She has toured North America, Europe and played Carnegie Hall with among many accomplishments. Originally an Inuk throat singer, from Cambridge Bay (Ikaluktuutiak),Tanya has developed her own distinct singing style into a contemporary art form.
Nanook of the North is perhaps the most famous (and perhaps most infamous) film ever made about indigenous people. One of the first great semi-fictionalized film "documentaries", Robert Flaherty's 1922 film is an unforgettable portrait of the life of an Inuit family. It also pandered to period stereotypes about the noble savage.
Tagaq's other-worldly singing and Derek Charke's original score to frame the film in a new, contemporary light. In a tour de force of postmodern juxtaposition, Tagaq's other-worldly vocalizations construct a tension between cultural authenticity and the distortion of contrived peoples depicted on screen, while also lamenting her own people's lost customs and traditions.
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Garneau Theatre
8712 109 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2L5