New Works: Heryka Miranda and Norma Araiza
Presented by Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space & Public Energy Performing Arts
Venue: Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space (1 Gzowski Way Peterborough) Nozhem venue guide available here
Date: February 28 & March 1, 2025 @ 7:00 PM
Tickets: Available now through Eventbrite
Pricing*: Pay what you can
*Pay what you can pricing is offered to make our tickets accessible and affordable for everyone. All tickets are general admission.
Run time: TBD, work currently in development
Content note: This work includes themes of death
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible venue. For more accessibility info please consult our Nozhem venue guide.
Presenting new work by Norma Araiza (Yoeme Nation & Mexican Basque) and Heryka Miranda (Guatemalan American).
“Norma Araiza and Heryka Miranda are old friends of Nozhem: strong female Indigenous performing artists who bring deep practices of connection to cultural roots, earth, and land. They both dance with fluidity between beings. We look forward to seeing these new works!”
-Jenn Cole, Artistic Director, Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space
Heryka Miranda: Toj
‘Toj’ in the Mayan sacred calendar means to offer payment for the sustenance received throughout life. In this structured improvisational ‘work in progress’, Heryka offers an embodied prayer; her ‘Toj’ to the seven galactic directions; the wisdom of the jaguar that clears the path of obstacles, providing her with the courage to utilize and reveal her voice and the guidance of hummingbird as death doula. With love and grief in her heart from mourning the loss of loved ones who have recently passed, along with the process of letting parts of herself die; she offers a prayer of gratitude to the power of transformation as she enters a time of rebirth, connecting to the wisdom and teachings of Yaz Tz’unun – Blue Hummingbird.
Norma Araiza: Ewi, what a dream!
This work in progress explores various moments of a character who goes through different emotions and sensations during dream time. But wondering, is this a dream or am I awake? The journey of this character is subtly inspired by the 4 elements and the 4 directions of the medicine wheel as a point of departure.
