2025 Festival of New Dance: Echoes and Embers a Double Bill of Tendrils by Ziyian Kwan and Firewater Thunderbird Rising by Christine Friday
October 3 at 7:30PM, doors at 6:30PM
General: $25.00
Child/Youth: $10.00
An evening of ancestral echoes and radical presence. In this powerful double bill, two solo works move through memory, mentorship, and multidimensional realms of being. Christine Friday conjures fire, land, and legacy in a dreamlike journey through Anishinaabek cosmology. Ziyian Kwan weaves a poetic tribute to Tedd Robinson, drawing on gifted archives and intimate correspondence to explore transmission, grief, and artistic kinship.
80 minutes
“Tendrils” by Ziyian Kwan / Odd Meridian Arts
“Firewater Thunderbird Rising” by Christine Friday of Friday Creeations
“Tendrils”
by Ziyian Kwan / Odd Meridian Arts
Tendrils is an ode to artists whose inspirational writings, teachings, and practices are living toolkits for survival and hope. Medicines for the healer in each of us. Ziyian Kwan brings her signature imagery and state-shifting presence to this solo that relays and responds to her correspondence with the late Canadian dance icon Tedd Robinson, alongside items from his creative archives that were gifted to her as part of 10 Gates Dancing’s Multiples Project.
“Firewater Thunderbird Rising”
By Christine Friday of Friday Creeations
Firewater Thunderbird Rising is the transformative spirit of dance travelling through dimensional realms of existence – ancestors, dreams, blood memory and the land directly connected to our Anishinaabek way of living, awakening the healing of our Nation’s future.
