Qaumma

Created by Vinnie Karetak and Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

2025-01-15 20:00 2025-01-17 22:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Qaumma

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/36002

In-person event

Dance in the enduring bright colours of family amidst social fragmentation as they keep the fire burning for generations. Qaumma, the Inuktitut word for light, is a sculptural theatre production recounting the inspiring journey of Inuit women who, despite the disruption of colonization, carve out their own legacies with language, guts, and culture. The prodigious Inuk artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory grounds her creative work in the practice of uaajeerneq, the traditional Greenland mask...

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Azrieli Studio,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
January 15 - 17, 2025
January 15 - 17, 2025

January 2025

  1. Jan 15 2025
    Tomorrow

    8:00pm

  2. Jan 16 2025
    Thursday

    8:00pm

  3. Jan 17 2025
    Friday

    8:00pm

Close schedule
A men bare foot is bathed in blue light walks around a white tent.
© Vivien Gaumand
Indigenous arts Theatre

Featured artists

  • Co-Creator/Director Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory
  • Co-Creator/Performer Vincent Colin Karetak
  • In-person event
  • English
  • ≈ 60 minutes · No intermission

Dance in the enduring bright colours of family amidst social fragmentation as they keep the fire burning for generations. Qaumma, the Inuktitut word for light, is a sculptural theatre production recounting the inspiring journey of Inuit women who, despite the disruption of colonization, carve out their own legacies with language, guts, and culture.

The prodigious Inuk artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory grounds her creative work in the practice of uaajeerneq, the traditional Greenland mask dance passed on to her by her mother. Irreverent and decolonial, this tradition mingles explorations of sexuality, laughter, and dread. In Qaumma, co-authored with Vinnie Karetak, the artists from Iqaluit address the forced displacements that uprooted their ancestors and colour their collective memory.

Developed with support from the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund.

Artists

  • Co-Creator/Director Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory
  • Co-Creator/Performer Vincent Colin Karetak
  • charlotte-qamaniq-cr-francisco-cruz
    Performer Charlotte Qamaniq
  • aqqalu-berthelsen
    Music Aqqalu Berthelsen
  • elysha-poirier
    Projection design Elysha Poirier
  • jean-gaudreau
    Sound design Jean Gaudreau
  • catherine-f-p
    Lighting design Catherine Fée-Pigeon
  • catherine-d-lapointe-credit-camille-gladu-drouin
    Set design Catherine D Lapointe
  • claudie-gagnon
    Technical Director Claudie Gagnon
  • Produced by Tulaffik