Living Landscapes
Lara Kramer
Sun 31 May | 10.00 – 12noon | Sunshine Room, The Park Ecovillage, Findhorn
Included in RISE Festival Weekend pass or £10 if bought separately
Living Landscapes explores relationship-building between our bodies and our environment — objects and materials, textures, sound, land, and shifting felt registers that give space to forms of animacy.
Activating, responding to, discovering, and listening to a multiplicity of voices sit at the heart of this workshop.
Participants are invited to connect with their sensing bodies and the elements present. Through guided experiential play, we will explore memories and future memories, notions of lineage, non-human entities, dreams, and varying states of the body.
Attention will be given to sensing textures and sonic development within a context of performance and experimentation, centring our diverse agencies and capacities.
Together, we will explore a personal yet rigorous approach to minimalism.
Within this shifting, moving landscape in which we find ourselves, how do we transmit our markings and intentions through heart, body, spirit, and voice? The workshop opens space for storytelling, listening, and shared reflection, offering an open-ended invitation for reciprocity.
Artist Bio
Lara Kramer is a performer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist of mixed Oji-cree and settler heritage, raised in London, Ontario. She lives and works in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal.
Over the past sixteen years, her choreographic work, research, and fieldwork have focused on intergenerational relations, intergenerational knowledge, and the impacts of the Indian Residential Schools of Canada. Kramer is the first generation in her family not to attend the Residential schools.
Her approach to experiential practice and the creative process of performance, sonic development, and visual design is based on embodying experiences like dreams, memories, knowledge, and reclamation. Her dance, performance, and installation creations have been showcased across North America, Europe, Australia/Oceania, and Martinique.
She has received multiple awards, acknowledgments, and prizes for her work both as an emerging and established artist. In 2018, Lara received the Jacqueline-Lemieux Prize for recognition of artistic excellence and distinguished career achievement in dance.
Two artworks from Kramer’s In Blankets, Herds and Ghosts were recently acquired by Pointe-à-Callière, Museum of Archaeology and History (2022-23). Lara Kramer is a Center de Création O Vertigo – CCOV Associate Artist since 2021.