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"Climate Action relates very strongly to the Land Back movement; Indigenous Peoples protect 80% of the world’s biodiversity despite representing a fraction of its population.  I’m so happy to see decolonization being welcoming into the discussion of how to safeguard our home."-  Fraser-Monroe

CHOREOGRAPHY
Cameron Fraser-Monroe.

Cameron Fraser-Monroe (he/him) is a member of the Tla'amin First Nation.

At three years old he started Ukrainian dancing in Vernon, BC leading him into a wide variety of music, theatre, and performance. He was privileged to receive several years of training and performance with World Champion Hoop Dancer Dallas Arcand, and studied Grass Dance with Elder Mollie Bono.

Since graduating from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School on the RWB Alumni Scholarship, he has
performed with many companies including Red Sky Performance at Jacob’s Pillow Festival, Dancers of Damelahamid at the Banff Centre and the International Cervantino Festival, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet at the National Arts Centre, and with the Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada.

As a choreographer Fraser-Monroe has received full-company commissions from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Ballet Kelowna, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Aspirants, and the Winnipeg Summer Dance Collective, as well as Artist’s Climate Collective, Transformation Cabaret at the Cultch, and both PULSE and Indigenous Day Live! on APTN. He continues to practice and present hoop dance.

He has been fortunate to worked directly with choreographers Mark Godden, Septime Webre,
Mauricio Wainrot, Josh Beamish, Jera Wolfe, Guillaume Côté, Santee Smith, and Margaret
Grenier. For the past four years Fraser-Monroe has served as Artistic Director of the Winnipeg Summer
Dance Collective, making dance more accessible in downtown Winnipeg for six weeks every year. In 2022, he was appointed Ballet Kelowna’s first Artist in Residence for their 20th Season.

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"First Nations people must prove their ancestral land in order to negotiate for its return. I wanted to take a playful look at these “lines in the sand” in this film while reminding people that Indigenous Peoples disagreeing on territory doesn’t disvalue our inherent right to it." Fraser-Monroe

DANCERS

Emily Solstice Tait.
Emily’s Solstice Tait’s practice is rooted in contemporary dance but happily crosses into theatre, stage management and film. She is of mixed settler and Ojibway ancestry (Urban member of Berens River First Nation). Her dances have been performed at The Manitoba Museum, The Forks National Historic Site, and along the shores of Lake Winnipeg. Select performances include The War Being Waged (Prairie Theatre Exchange), Actualize (Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers), moi, suel·e  (Théâtre Cercle Molière), Confluence (Raven Spirit Dance) and The___ Place video with CBC Arts.

​Cameron Fraser-Monroe.
choreographed, directed, and danced in his film.

FILM WORK & EDITING
Michael Osikoya.

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Michael Osikoya is a professional photographer and videographer with experience creating media for multiple platforms such as web, social media, and live events. Osikoya exhibits excellent editing skills on Adobe Premiere, photoshop, and Light Room. He is capable of working with any filming device with over 6 years of experience filming, editing, and producing professional content. 

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MUSIC
​Cris Derksen
of SISO Agency & Music Publishing
​​Intertribal Happy Feet (feat. Chippewa Travellers)

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