Works in Progress

“The New Zealand Project” (working title)

Currently, Red Sky is developing a new dance creation with the renowned Black Grace company based in New Zealand. Recently, Artistic Director Sandra Laronde visited Artistic Director/Choreographer Neil Ieremia and Black Grace in Auckland, New Zealand and then travelled to Wellington, N.Z., Apia and Savai’I in Samoa. During Sandra’s tremendous two week stay, she and Neil discussed opportunities for their forthcoming collaboration between Black Grace and Red Sky which will take place in March 2010.

Stay tuned for more information on this exciting new project between two major world Indigenous companies.

“The Weeping Mountain” (working title)

In terms of our family programming, Red Sky's newest work is targeted at K to Grade 6 and their families. “The Weeping Mountain” will take the audience on a journey through language, imagery, music, theatre and dance - all embraced by an essential environmental theme. “The Weeping Mountain” is the story of a young girl's courageous and inspiring journey to follow the weeping she hears in her heart and to answer Mother Nature's plea. Lucy travels throughout the Bow Valley and the Canadian Rockies in search of the beautiful smiling mountain she remembers as a child, only to find that it is now weeping. River of tears fall from the mountain's eyes. The Earth has become too hot and its ice caps are melting under the sun. The world is too busy to have noticed, too busy to stop and listen. Lucy must make the tears stop. She finds a clever way to make people hear the mountain weeping for the first time and together they find a way to bring a smile to Mother Earth, and ultimately to their own hearts.

Educating children about the future of their planet is essential as we want to ensure environmental care becomes their way of life as they move into adulthood. The inspiration for our newest show was through an actual photograph of an icecap in which tears seemed to gush from a face carved into the ice by melting water. Mother Nature seems to be grieving over the planet's future and from this image sprung the idea of “The Weeping Mountain” came to be.

“The Weeping Mountain” will be workshopped in the Fall/Winter 2009, and will be available for touring in October 2010. Stay tuned for new details.