Blood Water Earth An embodied incantation Blood, Water, Earth traverses sacred alignment from cosmos to womb to earth, it’s a ritual renewal, and a symbolic stripping away of colonial impacts on Indigenous womxn | Konkwehon:we. Imagery and energies span the wide range of what is Konkwehon:we: warrior, leader, creator, huntress, mother and deity. the performance weaves performance, multimedia and music/song, channeling the ancestral and elemental. A solo re|mix of Kaha:wi Dance Theatre’s triptych series on Re-Matriation: Re-Quickening, Blood Tides and Skennen, the international Indigenous womxn’s performance features collaborators from Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Acknowledging inter-connectedness and shared experiences of Konkwehon:we, Blood Water Earth positions Indigenous worldview at the vanguard. Blood, Water, Earth premiered at the Onkwehon:we Festival, Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario, Canada in June 2018. It has since been performed at the Inter-tribal Gathering presented by Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance; The Ganohkwasra Gala, Six Nations of the Grand River; World Indigenous Law Conference presented by the University of Windsor; Auckland Arts Festival 2019, New Zealand; Rubaboo Arts Festival, Edmonton, AB; Matriarch Uprising Festival, Dance Centre, Vancouver BC; and the Prismatic Arts Festival, Ottawa, ON and will be live streamed at The Celebration of Nations festival @ FirstON Performing Arts Centre on Sept 12, 2020. PRODUCTION CREDITS: Producer: Kaha:wi Dance Theatre Artistic Direction/Concept/Solo Dance Artist: Santee Smith Live Singers: Jennifer Kreisberg, Semiah Smith Video Designer/Editor: Louise Potiki Bryant Lighting Designer/Technical Director: Andy Moro Director of Photography: Paddy Free Costume Design: Adriana Fulop, Elaine Redding, Leigh Smith Music Composition: Cris Derksen, Paddy Free Additional Music: Adrian Harjo, Semiah Smith (vocals), Jo’el Komene (Taonga Pūoro) Pottery: Steve T. Smith of Talking Earth Pottery Trailer Videography: Andy Moro Sponsors: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council Creation Support: Creative New Zealand (Videography) Booking information: www.kahawidance.org