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Moshkamo- Finding Wolastoq Voice: East-coast voices tell their stories that convey their struggle to survive.

Moshkamo- Finding Wolastoq Voice: East-coast voices tell their stories that convey their struggle to survive.

 

Finding Wolastoq Voice. Dancer story teller Aria Evans, Set  Andy Moro.  Photo Justin Tang

 

Mòshkamo: “ Finding  Wolastoq Voice”  reveals  the founding cosmogony of the East Coast peoples.

This  production from Theatre New Brunswick is based on a text by Natalie Sappier  (Sammaqani Cocahq -the Water Spirit),  a multi-disciplinary artist whose work  unfolds on a frontal stage – a space  in the round would have been much preferable –  within the double layers of a Malaseet circle where the young woman enters  the spiritual  world of the Tobique First Nations  to tell us her personal journey to recover her identity.

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