Sophia Lee and Liang Xing in a scene from Going Home Star - Truth and Reconciliation, a new ballet from Royal Winnipeg Ballet about the First Nations trauma of the compulsory residential boarding schools.


leans, La. “Joseph, would you be willing to help us create a ballet?” she asked. He hesitated because he had no idea how to write a ballet. “It became an opportunity to cross bound-


aries, to reclaim what is often considered a colonial art form,” Boyden recalls. “The heart of the Indigenous world is


dance and music and story, so let’s do this,” he says. “Let’s create something that is often thought of as very Western but turn it on its head. Re-imagine the paradigm and make it into something Indigenous.” He locked himself in a Toronto hotel room


for two days during a book tour in Canada and wrote the story. For Keeper it was difficult to share and trust non-Native individuals to honor the


Tanya Tagaq, Joseph Boyden, and Tina Keeper.


PHOTOS BY SAMANTA KATZ


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