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POSTPONED Dance Performance: The Mush Hole: Truth, Acknowledgement, Resilience

Calendar
When:
March 14, 2020 @ 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
2020-03-14T14:00:00-04:00
2020-03-14T16:00:00-04:00
Where:
National Museum of the American Indian
Independence Ave SW
Washington
DC 20560
Cost:
Free
Arts/Theatre Cultural

Dance Performance: The Mush Hole: Truth, Acknowledgement, Resilience

Kaha:wi Dance Theatre

Santee Smith, Artistic Director

Saturday, March 14, 2 p.m.

Rasmuson Theater

The Mush Hole is a heartbreaking dance theater piece that moves through Canada’s residential school history with hope and empathy. The performance by Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, created, directed, produced by Santee Smith, reflects the realities of the Mohawk Institute Residential School experience and offers a compelling way to open dialogue and to heal. Created in collaboration with Mohawk Institute Residential School survivors and including school documentation in recounting its history, The Mush Hole is about survival and intergenerational resilience.

The Mohawk Institute, also known as the Mush Hole, is Canada’s oldest residential school, after which all other residential schools were modeled. Operating in Brantford, Ontario, from 1828 to 1970, the Mohawk Institute served as a boarding school for First Nations children from Six Nations and other communities in Ontario and Quebec. It was a key tool in the effort to assimilate First Nations children into European Christian society and sever the continuity of First Nations culture from parent to child, leaving a legacy of trauma.

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