Interview

Project description and development

Author
Alida Esmail
Production
Co-production

This second video weaves together excerpts from rehearsals and a conversation between the choreographer and her dramaturgical consultants, Thea Patterson and Julie Tamiko Manning. It offers a rare opportunity to step inside the creative process, as Alida describes why she chose to work with these consultants and why they, in turn, chose to support the project.

Project

Alida Esmail en performance de Les fils de ma grand-mère / My grandmother's threads

My Grandmother’s Threads

Diffusion
My Grandmother’s Threads is a multidisciplinary choreographic project by Alida Esmail, a Canadian dance and theatre artist whose work explores the body as a carrier of memory, history, and lived experience. Grounded in her Indo-African ancestry, the project traces a family lineage from Muslim India...

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