Red Sky Performance. Caribou Song.

Story by Tomson Highway and music by Rick Sacks, Caribou Song is about two Cree children in Canada's north who follow the caribou by dogsled with their family. When a herd of caribou thunders through their camp, the parents worry that the children have been trampled. Instead, the children find a way to magically embrace the spirit of the caribou.

This adventure dance story for family audiences is a tale about the transformative nature of love and power of the natural world.

Red Sky's inaugural production of Caribou Song (large orchestral version) was performed in February 2000 with the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra, then, notably with 70 musicians of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at the Roy Thomson Hall in February 2002. Caribou Song has since toured to Switzerland, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Banff, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Whitehorse, Dawson City, Mississauga, Halifax, Newfoundland & Labrador, Washington, D.C., Connecticut, San Diego, Australia and China.

"…natural and percussive sounds that resonate as powerfully as the performances"
– NOW Magazine

"…the wildly successful children's show".
– Dance International

“Red Sky has everything to do with theatricality and the imagination...remarkably evocative.”
-Edmonton Journal

“The piece de resistance was Red Sky’s performance of Caribou Song…a rousing performance.”
– TANSI, Toronto’s Aboriginal Newspaper

"My beginnings were magical beyond belief. I was born and grew up in a garden of Eden, a northern paradise that was pure and magical".
– Tomson Highway on Caribou Song, Globe & Mail

Available:

Touring chamber ensemble of five performers (one actor, one dancer, and three musicians: percussion, marimba and guitar).

Artwork by Mary Intven Wallace

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