In this Episode I sit down with Santee Smith (Six Nations Kahnyen'kehaka, Turtle Clan) Creative Producer/Director/Performer: "The Mush Hole" Truth, Acknowledgement, Resilience.
Santee is a multidisciplinary artist from the Kahnyen’kehàka Nation, Turtle Clan, Six Nations of the Grand River, Haldimand Treaty Territory. As a creative she is dedicated to cultivating space for embodied storytelling, collaboration, exchange through performance and cultural talks, work with land and earth/clay. In 2005 she founded Kaha:wi Dance Theatre and also works as a independent artist on projects such as The Mush Hole, and Talking Earth installation at the Gardiner Museum. Her practice is process and for her the process is full bodied, ceremonial in intent and crafted through research with knowledge keepers and sites/land. Smith trained at Canada’s National Ballet School, completed Physical Education and Psychology degrees from McMaster University and a M.A. in Dance from York University.