Dancing with Spirit
Season 1
This Original six-part television series, created for Bravo! is a unique aboriginal dance series featuring an eloquent union of First Nation storytelling, beautiful, haunting, stylized, hip-hop, traditional drum & singing music, modern & traditional dance styles interpreting age old stories connecting to the rite of passage of the soul and creation. These six different dance pieces were created and filmed in the locations of their origin. The bands include: Inuit, Ojibwa, Cree and Iroquois.
Where to Watch Dancing with Spirit • Season 1
6 Episodes
- Hunter's JourneyE1
Hunter's JourneyThe story explores an Inuit hunter's journey to find food for his loving family. A great hunter who follows his instincts and the traditional ways in hunting the Arctic animals. He travels for days in search but with no success. As the days continue to pass his love and memories of his family waiting for his return drive him to madness. In the end his spirit still roams the vast Arctic searching for food for his family. - ManitowapanE2
Manitowapan"Manitowapan" is rooted in the traditions elements of the First Nations People - dance and storytelling. The idea of Manitowapan is to focus on making visible the relationship between the spirit and the matter, the word and the movement, the mind and the body. For native people of the past, simple rituals as dance and storytelling served as great healing rituals for individuals and whole communities. The goal of a story or a dance was to recognize and to revere the presence of spirits in all worldly affairs, and through that simple act, to restore balance and unity. - PassageE4
Passage"Passage" explores how passion and forces of this world influences oneself. Traditional native stories can parallel this inspiration bringing forth teachings and legends to the present time where ones own spiritual force and nature can become awaken. "Passage" is a journey of discovering and defining one's true self. - Here on EarthE5
Here on EarthAn exploration of spiritual connection to the land, Earth as a living organism, Earth as Mother, Earth as sacred. Four primal Beings journey from the Sky to touch the Earth. Each takes a path that leads them through an incredible journey of discovery and transformation. Moving through shape and form the dancers unite in ritual expression inhabiting the land of spirits, animal, plant and human. The dance is drawn from the Iroquoian Creation Story. The work embraces the belief that humans were originally Sky Dwellers who dream their existence on earth. - TriptychE6
TriptychJohn Prophet is haunted by his past. His memories cloud each sleepless night and his waking hours. These memories are fractured articulations of his past, but John cannot make out the difference between the past and the present, between delusion and reality. John's exists and survival depends on his claims both to his past and his right to spiritual freedom in the present.