Raven Grenier
Spanonchnonga is an analysis and approach to mental health diagnoses through a non-western lens. Specifically, with the artistic director's personal experience with schizophrenia and seeing and hearing supernatural beings, and being accompanied by voices through the cultural relevancies of her Gitxsan roots. It is also a theoretical response to Alica Elliot's A Mind Spread Out On the Ground in the spoken words elements and soundscape. Through digital design, lighting and special effects, dance, and sound, experience the experience of being taken over and transported to Spanochnonga, a place where monsters used to go that were once nochnochs until they were summoned.
film director @kiradoxtator
videographer, colourist @eric_david_etcetera
creative producer, editor Andrew Grenier
artistic director, choreographer, formline design @ravengrenier
sound design Ted Hamilton, @scopesaga
sound mentorship @edziumusic
Indigenous attire @coastalbeadcollective
nails @waaynexwi7dayspa
make up artist @samkronstal
dramturges Charles Koroneho, Margaret Grenier
collaborating interpreters @atamiradancecompany
producers @formvancouver, Dancers of Damelahamid
co-commissioning partner @thedancecentrebc
Raven Grenier is an emerging dancer, singer and visual artist in formline design. She is also a 4th year Indigenous studies studying at ubc and artistic and administrative assistant for Dancers of Damelahamid. Both Raven and film director Kira Doxtator are young Indigenous women.