Erynne Gilpin
Clear Water
"I understand, digest, interpret and in some cases, devour the world through my physical body. Movement has become for me a place to anchor myself to the most integral parts of my identity and imaginative becomings. This piece is about the sacred world of sisterhood. The song is composed by Emilee Gilpin and was recorded and sent in a time of separation due to the pandemic. The dance is a conversation with the sister's song, through water, land, and moving prayer. The piece is entitled "clear water", a place to conduit the prayers of sisterhood."
directed and produced by Erynne Gilpin
cinematography and Editor Kl. Peruzzo de Andrade
Erynne Gilpin is a mixed Métis (Member of Manitoba Métis Federation [The Pás]), Filipina and Celtic Mother, artist and educator committed to Land-based wellness and place-based knowledge mobilization. Her work focuses on anti-oppressive pedagogues, storied learning methodologies and critical intersectionality as it applies to land-relations and community wellness. Growing up, Gilpin was a competitive Highland Dancer (from the ages of 7-16) and then in her early twenties returned to dance with the guidance of Dorit Osher. Through the study and practice of somatic, interpretive and body-led movement, Gilpin later found the liberatory praxis of dance as it relates to self-determination, healing and decolonization. Gilpin is also a Director/Producer with UATÊ STORIED LEARNING, a film-based production company committed to educational film-based storytelling.