MOREECHIKA: SEASON OF MIRAGE

This full-length video of our 2012 production, Moreechika: Season of Mirage, is available for viewing on Vimeo until 8pm CDT, May 8, 2020: https://vimeo.com/406989561. Running time: 01:26:52.

Program notes & production credits: http://www.ananyadancetheatre.org/dance/moreechika/

This production video is provided free of charge, but if you would like to donate to Ananya Dance Theatre, please visit givemn.org/organization/Ananya-Dance-Theatre.

This video of Moreechika: Season of Mirage was recorded at its performance at The Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN, September 7, 2012. Choreography: Ananya Chatterjea. Direction: Laurie Carlos. Music Composition & Sound Design: Greg Schutte. Videography: Darren Johnson, Northern Dawn Media

© Copyright 2012 Ananya Dance Theatre

Moreechika brings together many stories: the belief of the U’wa people of Colombia, who think of oil as ruiria, blood of the earth, which must be respected as part of the natural world; the protests of the indigenous Kichwa women of Ecuador to Chevron oil; the debates in North America about the Keystone XL Pipeline through Native American lands; and the fight and martyrdom of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa against Shell Oil, responsible for the destruction of the land and ecosystem of the Ogoni people. At several points in the work, the dancers whisper Saro-Wiwa’s courageous words, “dance your anger/and your joys/dance the guns to silence/dance dance dance.”