Gluk Premiere
Gluk Premiere | KJD 40+ years
We would like to invite you to the premiere of our film Gluk and the 40th anniversary celebration of Karen Jamieson Dance
Sunday December 1, 2024
1:00 pm
Admission is free – Donations gratefully accepted
Faris Theatre, Scotiabank Dance Centre
677 Davie Street
Vancouver
Gluk is a film that focuses on Stone Soup, a performance work that spanned 1995-1997 and toured British Columbia. This film is a result of the multi-year Body to Land Project by Karen Jamieson Dance.
Underlying and central to Stone Soup is the Gitxsan concept of Gluk: a ceremony of redoing a wrong, as in replacing a rotten plank in the foundation of a structure. Doreen Jensen, Hahl Yee, Gitxsan elder, artist, writer, activist, educator and thinker, as well as a beloved friend and mentor to Karen, introduced and proposed the concept to create a dance that would fulfill a Gluk by touring BC asking permission to enter and dance on each of the First Nations territories they came to.
Over a period of years, we are studying and re-creating through video and movement, seminal works from the repertoire that explore our emotional, physical and cultural relationship to land. The works all embody powerful concepts that express the relationship of humans to land and have something to offer to the conversation around reconciliation and the role of dance in creating bridges between cultures.
Our objective is to create, from the analog video material, writings, photos, drawings and maps that remain from each piece, a documentary video and live movement work that can be grasped by an audience as a singular whole.
Stone Soup is the first work we are addressing in this project.
The resulting film is titled Gluk.
1983 Sisyphus - Photo by Chris Randle
KJD turned 40 on October 12, 2023 – we are a little late in celebrating this milestone – but would like to acknowledge it now! Please join us after the film for a little reception in honouring the work of Karen Jamieson and everyone that worked with us over the years.
