Tiny Sparks Everywhere: Birch Bark Biting as Land-Based Dramaturgies

In this article, Lindsay Lachance reflects on her term ‘land-based dramaturgies.’ Land-based dramaturgies may involve physical interaction with land and waters or may be invoked philosophically in developing the process’s framework, and/or practitioners may look to creation stories and language stru...

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Published in:Canadian Theatre Review
Main Author: Lachance, Lindsay
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 2021
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.186.010
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spelling crunivtoronpr:10.3138/ctr.186.010 2024-09-30T14:22:12+00:00 Tiny Sparks Everywhere: Birch Bark Biting as Land-Based Dramaturgies Lachance, Lindsay 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.186.010 https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.186.010 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Canadian Theatre Review volume 186, page 54-58 ISSN 0315-0836 1920-941X journal-article 2021 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.186.010 2024-09-05T05:02:09Z In this article, Lindsay Lachance reflects on her term ‘land-based dramaturgies.’ Land-based dramaturgies may involve physical interaction with land and waters or may be invoked philosophically in developing the process’s framework, and/or practitioners may look to creation stories and language structures as land-based resources. Through defining and highlighting some land-based processes performed by Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock) and herself, she demonstrates how some Indigenous theatre artists are exploding notions of ‘the well-made play.’ As an Algonquin Anishinaabe theatre artist, Lachance looks to birchbark biting as a starting point when building a dramaturgical process. This article paddles down a river, exploring how individuals and collectives investigate and actually use cultural material, objects, familial teachings, and place as artistic collaborators when creating theatrical works. To conclude, the article describes how Lachance navigated working with land-based principles during an online play development workshop of Yolanda Bonnell’s (Anishinaabe) My Sister’s Rage during the COVID-19 pandemic. Article in Journal/Newspaper algonquin anishina* University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press) Monique ENVELOPE(70.250,70.250,-49.517,-49.517) Canadian Theatre Review 186 54 58
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