Her name is Tekaronhiáhkhwa Santee Smith and she is an Onkwehon:we woman from the Mohawk Nation Turtle Clan from Six Nations of the Grand River.

As beautiful as it is arresting, Santee Smith’s ground breaking piece Re-Quickening explores the intersection of Indigenous and new dance performance. Created through a process unique to her culture, Santee Smith’s Re-Quickening is a spiritual resurgence – a piecing together of shards of knowledge that tip colonialism on its head. Provoking, conceptual and visceral, this work is a timely call for re awakening. Kaha:wi Dance Theatre is one of Canada’s leading contemporary dance companies renowned for its artistry, creative excellence and collaboration, this is a chance to experience the best of the contemporary indigenous dance movement now taking the world by storm.