Shocap collaborates on Maamawi: Together Through the Fire, AN INDIGENOUS DANCE AND STORYTELLING PORTRAYAL

Shocap and partner Animatrik merges creative with high-end performance capture technology in the latest hybrid live performance and virtual and augmented reality production Maamawi: Together Through the Fire. A Peppers Ghost New Media Collective production where Athomas Goldberg is the Co-Creator and VR Experience Designer alongside Co-Creator and Canadian Indigenous choreographer Olivia C. Davies of O.Dela Arts.

In the not so distant future, we find refuge together in the shared fight for survival. From the mouth of the cave, we see two paths are visible. One leads to salvation while the other leads to chaos and destruction. Which path will you choose?

ᒫᒪᐏ (maamawi) – Together Through the Fire takes an Indigenous Futurist approach to the Anishinaabe Eight Fire prophecies with a hybrid interactive VR/AR and live performance looking back at today from a future time after the prophecy of the 8th Fire has come to pass. Original choreography by Olivia C. Davies accompanies animated visual designs by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckly, sound design from Michael Red with unique digital interaction design by Athomas Goldberg.

Maamawi: Together Through the Fire is a cross-cultural collaboration between Indigenous artists and non-Indigenous allies, providing important work to come to new understandings, using new technologies to tell old stories to a broad, cross-cultural audience. The medium of dance enables us to tell those stories in non-literal ways accentuated by visual and sonic designs. The Anishinaabeg Seven Fires Prophecies speak of restoring relations between indigenous and settler society. The Prophecies are the foundation of our resistance and our resurgence. They have foretold our history from the beginning of time. They are the reason for our survival, they are the reason we continue to emerge and re-create.

Maamawi: Together Through the Fire features in The Georgia Straight