![]() ![]() Sarain Carson-Fox, an internationally recognized contemporary dancer of Anishinaabe heritage, and Lisa Nasson, a talented Mi'kmaq actor from Halifax, bring Margaret to life through dance and word. ![]() Olemaun was tormented by her caregivers, forced to cut her hair, forsake her language and take the English name Margaret-yet refuses to be broken by her experiences. The show uses choral soundscapes, contemporary dance and text from the book to tell the true story of Olemaun, an eight-year-old Inuit child who left her home in the High Arctic to attend a residential school in Aklavik. ![]() It's a story that truly speaks to people and allows non-Aboriginal people to see the issue of residential schools in a new way." "The reception Fatty Legs got in 2011 was overwhelming," recalls Xara's co-artistic director and conductor Christina Murray. Anyone who saw it then can attest to its beauty and power. It's been almost four years since Xara Choral Theatre presented a version of Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton's children's book, Fatty Legs, at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission event in Halifax. ![]()
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