A 50-minute mixed-bill performance that highlights rural and remote perspectives and expression through dance, music, poetry, and visual art. The program features three works that explore the outflow of language and knowledge as a basis for understanding our relationship to both physical and spiritual worlds.

ᗜ ᗫᑋ ᙝᗆᘇ (Water is Life) River Work: River Work is a conceptual multi-media performance piece created in collaboration between four Northern artists, Keilani Elizabeth Rose, and Diane Levesque, Shoshanna Godber and Shelby Richardson. The work investigates our relationship with the waterways surrounding our region and how they impact our reflections of self and identity. A short film created by Rose opens the performance, spoken by Elder Violet Bozoki. A monologue written and performed by Rose then opens the performance with three performers carrying bowls of river water. The script is formulated on Rose’s current journey into her Dakelh language and her passionate activism for clean drinking water in her home community. Richardson’s choreography is based both on the forms of Dakelh syllabics and the performers interaction with the water, in which they slowly bathe their bodies and costumes (created by Levesque) in the river water – a reference to the immersion of self in both the land and cultural knowledge. Throughout the performance projections created by Levesque saturate the stage, creating a visual link to her own conceptualizations of identity and ties to the confluence of the Nechako and Fraser Rivers.

The Annunciation: The Apocrypha of Hildegard of Bingen: Hildegard of Bingen was a medieval abbess and artist who suffered from migraines and visions that had an effect on her writings and compositions. In this piece, Dr. Lisa Dickson reads a poem she created based on a "remuneration on the effects of being touched by something that is so different, so far beyond our understanding that it produces a kind of glossolalia or hypergraphia as the mind struggles for words." Shelby Richardson and Sloane Zogas developed the choreography based on the translation of words into physical manifestations, mediating on the variance of sound, speed, and syntax. At the end of the piece the dancer is taken over by her manifestations, moving upwards towards a state of enlightenment.

Here It Is: ‘Here it is’ is a new work created by Anya Saugstad in response to a fear of death. It acknowledges our brief existence, and the longing and pain we hold in a world where we leave one at a time. This work started in Vancouver as a duet but has been adapted and expanded for Method Dance with a four person cast.

"That we are made to die, one at a time, here in the first draft of existence-that is the pain and the longing. That is the beautiful." (Sheila Heti from the book Pure Colour).