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Performance Festival
August 6-16, 2026
Philippe Latour
Golden Rez Dog
Marcus Merasty
Venue
The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance Mimi Herrndorf Studio Theatre
FRI AUG 7, 6:00 PM
SAT AUG 8, 2:00 PM
SAT AUG 8, 9:00 PM
Co-presented with Citadel + Compagnie
45 Minutes
Ticket Price
$20 / $35 / $50
The Golden Rez Dog is a somatic investigation into personal, collective, and ancestral histories. Drawing inspiration from the Cree poem The Old Rez Dog by Francine Merasty and The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius, the piece reflects on transformation, memory, and transference of intergenerational knowledge.
This non-linear work explores a cycle of transformation, becoming a “rez dog” and becoming a human again. Cree oral traditions of storytelling are examined in a blend of traditional and contemporary Indigenous dance forms, ideologies, and practices. Literary works of similar themes are questioned and compared. How are experiences documented and knowledge transmitted through generations?
The Golden Rez Dog explores how current and past stories transform us and shape our history.
Choreographer & Performer: Marcus Merasty
Sound Artist: George Stamos
Poetry: Francine Merasty
Elder & Cultural Advisor: John Merasty
Created in support by La Serre Arts Vivant residency, OFFTA 2026 work-in-progress showing, research residency with Young Lungs Dance Exchange, New Dance Horizons in Regina and at Toronto Love-In. Supported by Canada Council for the Arts & The Saskatchewan Foundation For The Arts.
Sensory: Loud noises
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SummerWorks Performance Festival
August 6-16, 2026
Tickets on Sale > July 13th!
This year’s Festival theme, Fight | Flight brings forward urgent creative responses to this troubling moment in time. Across the 2026 Festival, artists root themselves in place, community, ancestry, and practice, while also shifting perspectives, rewriting histories, and creating new narratives through the body, exploring memory, consent, transformation, and identity, through resistance, humour, and intimacy.
