Sarah Prosper

Tuesday, September 27th | 7PM
Wednesday, September 28th | 7PM
Neptune Theatre Scotiabank Stage

Friday, September 30th | 8:30PM
The Carleton

Thursday, October 6th | 7PM
Breaking Circus Studio

Friday, October 9th | 7:30PM
The Bus Stop Theatre

Dancer and Artistic Director of Samqwan, Sarah (Sali’j) Prosper is a 22 year old L’nu woman (she/her) from Mi’kmaq First Nation community Eskasoni (Wekwistoqnik ~ land of the fir trees). She has a B.Sc. in Therapeutic Recreation and is ADAPT-Certified. 

An accomplished creator and leader in the arts, dance, and culture, Sarah has performed, collaborated, co-created, co-produced, and consulted in Indigenous-inspired multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational productions, most recently: Koqm (shalan joudry), Nutuwiek? (NS Choral Federation), Alan Syliboy & The Thundermakers (co-presented with Symphony NS), Fluid Forms ~ Utawtiwow Kijinaq (Mocean Dance & Sara Coffin), Ki’kwa’ju: Reimagining Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf (Fountain School of the Performing Arts, Christina Murray & Shelly MacDonald), and Lost Soul Rodeo (George Woodhouse & the Public Service).

Sarah creates and moves through topics of intergenerational healing, history, health, wellness, and truth and, through these elements and stories of our history and the land, uplifts contemporary Indigenous artistry with an approach that is guided by Mi’kmaq spirituality. Sarah hopes to incorporate Indigenous creativeness in movement of all forms and help others find their inherent ability to move freely with Ms~t No’kmaq (All My Relations).

Sarah's Land Acknowledgement from the Deep

Eymuti’k+p ke’s mna’q etenukek maqamikew
Kisitu’k+p km+tkinu, ukjitelmi’knik aqq nike’
Weji-sqalia’ti’kw wula maqmikmew,
Kinu na maqmikew
Kinu anko’t+snu wsitqamu

Mother earth has a voice, she sings and cries from, she gives and provides from.
We dance with her and listen, hoping we pick up the right wind.
I’m telling you a story that has always been told, before you, before me, before there was even a place to be.
We became the land to protect, a responsibility inherited from our grandmothers and grandfathers, a history no author can write, let our DNA ignite.