New Blood is a performance about what history does when it is carried not only in documents, but in voices, gestures, music, family stories, and bodies in motion.
Presented at Mount Royal University by the Anthropology Affiliation of MRU (AAMRU) and the Iniskim Centre, the March 3 performance brought the production back to the Nickel Theatre. The official MRU listing describes a work combining poetry, music, contemporary dance, and traditional dance, inspired by the life of Chief Vincent Yellow Old Woman: his childhood experience in residential school, the reclamation of his way of life, and his later leadership in Siksika Nation.
The event sits directly within the public-facing work that Dispatches records: encounters in which research, teaching, performance, and community knowledge meet outside the conventional seminar room.
