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Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet

Going Home Star - Truth and Reconciliation

April 1, 2016 · 7:30pm
April 2, 2016 · 7:30pm

Home base

Winnipeg
Choreographer

Mark Godden
Writer

Joseph Boyden
Duration

1h 55 min
Venue

Royal Theatre

Commissioned by Artistic Director André Lewis, Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation explores the world of Annie, a young, urban First Nations woman adrift in a contemporary life of youthful excess. But when she meets Gordon, a longhaired trickster disguised as a homeless man, she’s propelled into a world she’s always sensed but never seen. Not only do they travel the streets of this place but also the paths of their ancestors, learning to accept the other’s burdens as the two walk through the past and toward the future. Together, both Annie and Gordon learn that without truth, there is no reconciliation.

“…ballet turns darkness into beauty”
THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Preview of Going Home Star

Interview with author Joseph Boyden

Thank you to our sponsors

Season

Derma Spa
Lead Presentation

Luxe Home Interiors

Plus for the generous support of the following production investors: Truth and Reconciliation Commission, The Asper Foundation, Tuccaro Group of Companies, and Wawanesa Insurance.

Review by The Globe and Mail

Preview of 2016 National Tour by Indian Country Today

Thank you to all of you who joined Dance Victoria in bringing this transformative tale of hope and understanding to Residential School survivors.
We matched every $74 donation, with two free tickets to a survivor or child of a survivor so he/she can attend this important work.

Paintings made by students at the Alberni Indian Residential School in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s will be in the lobbies at our Going Home Star performances. In 2013, the University of Victoria repatriated these paintings to Survivors who had painted them as children. The paintings, along with the stories of Survivors who created them, will become part of a new permanent exhibition on Indian Residential Schools in Canada at the Canadian Museum of History in 2017.