Them Voices

past and future generations come together and manifest in Lara Kramer’s body, mind and dreams.

Them Voices explores the transporting of sound, body, mobility, imagination, and connection, in relation to a recurring dream, memory, family, and future dreaming.

The artists Lara Kramer positions herself inside shared experiences with her mother and explores hopes, dreams and future thriving. The title Them Voice is interpreted as multiple voices, stories, imagery, that are imbedded in the artist’s body and that are anchored with her mother and family relations. The multigenerational experiences that come before and proceed the artists, future dreaming becomes the crafting of fuel towards new rhythms, new modes of mobility.

Them Voice searches to be inside the place that carries memory and future imagination. Laying out in all possible directions. What has been exerted, what is failed. What is not yet seen or dreamt of. All is together, intersecting in Them Voice. Strives to re-imagine new pathways connected to future ancestors in their flight and journey.

Conceived, created, set and performed by Lara Kramer

Sound creation + editing: Lara Kramer + Simon Riverin

Outside Eyes: Faye Mullen + Peter James

Knowledge keeper: Ida Baptiste

Elder: Emerson Ninigishki’ing

Documentation: Ivanie Aubin-Malo + James Oscar

Lighting Design: Hugo Dalphond

Technical Director: Simon Riverin

Creative Residencies with Dancemakers + Place des Arts + Musée d’art contemporain

Coproduced with Festival TransAmériques + Dancemakers

With support from Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec