Dance Victoria - Dancers of Damelahamid

Books to support your experience at Dance Victoria's presentation of Raven Mother, the Dancers of Damelahamid’s newly choreographed dance work in honour of late Elder Margaret Harris (1931–2020), on January 24, 2025.

The company’s most ambitious production to date, Raven Mother is the culmination of generations of artistic and cultural work, and was co-comissioned by Dance Victoria.

Updated April 9, 2024
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Cloudwalker
Vickers, Roy Henry
Paper Book
Cloudwalker, describing the creation of the rivers, is the second in a series of Northwest Coast legends by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd. Their previous collaboration, Raven Brings the Light (2013), is a national bestseller. On British Columbia's...
Performing indigeneity
Nolan, Yvette
Paper Book
This volume of newly commissioned essays about Indigenous performance is the first in which all of the contributors are Indigenous artists or academics. Scholars were invited to write essays on some aspect of Indigenous performance and artists were asked to contribute statements on whatever they...
Returning the feathers : five Gitxsan stories
Smith, M. Jane.
Paper Book
Waci! Dance!
Speidel, Sage
Paper Book
A mother -- the author of this story -- shares Lakota cultural experiences with her daughter, introducing her to waci (dance) as a way to celebrate life. Wacipi (powwow), where the dancing occurs, is a setting for Indigenous song, dance, regalia, food and crafts. A warm, family story for...
Why we dance : a story of hope and healing
Havrelock, Deirdre
Paper Book
From Indigenous creative team Deidre Havrelock and Aly McKnight comes a powerful and exuberant story about the heritage, joy, and healing power of the Jingle Dress Dance--a perfect read-aloud picture book. It's a special day--the day of the Jingle Dress Dance!...
Writing the Hamat?sa: ethnography, colonialism, and the cannibal dance
Glass, Aaron
Paper Book
Long known as the Cannibal Dance, the Hamat̓sa is among the most important hereditary prerogatives of the Kwakwa̱ka̱ꞌwakw of British Columbia. In the late nineteenth century, as anthropologists arrived to document the practice, colonial agents were pursuing its eradication...

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