Ice Follies 2025
February 7th - 21st, 2025THEME: OZHAASHIKWAA (THE ICE IS SLIPPERY)
There is slippery ice; extra care and consideration is needed. Travelling and moving forward is difficult; the conditions are unsteady. The terrain ahead demands resilience and adaptability as the path forward remains uncertain.
Aanmitaagzi, All My R(el)ations, 2025
Aanmitaagzi’s multi-year project, All My R(el)ations, is an Indigenous multi-disciplinary dance project of gathering, reflecting and dreaming. The project researches, develops and creates art around the theme of relationality and resource capacity. All My R(el)ations looks at the past, present and future stories of scarcity and abundance and our relationship to each other during those times. When do we talk about “all my relations”? What do we need in our ceremonial bundles before big moments of change and transformation? We believe this specific topic and the resulting activities are culturally relevant and timely.
Timeline: year one and two include strategic collaborations, creation intensives and site-specific art events. Year one culminated in performances and installation works presented at Ice Follies 2023. Year three will culminate in large-scale installations and dance theatre productions, including at Ice Follies.
Aanmitaagzi is a professional Indigenous inter-arts company from Nipissing First Nation, Ontario, linked to provincial, national and international networks. Aanmitaagzi combines art making, education, professional development & social activism. We investigate and create contemporary arts in relationship to historic indigenous arts and worldview. Our activities incorporate the Indigenous legacy of intergenerational art-making which engages both artists and community. Aanmitaagzi provides educational, land based, and community focused arts activities by producing arts festivals, dance theatre productions, and projects which activate these historic practices in meaningful ways.