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Margo Kane (Cree/Saulteaux) is an interdisciplinary artist and
a leading figure in Native performing arts. Over the past
twenty years, she has been recognized as a storyteller, dancer,
singer, animator, video and installation artist, director,
producer, writer and teacher. Her desire to create work that
has meaning for her people is the catalyst for her extensive
travels into both rural and urban Native communities across
Canada and fuels her commitment to performance that is not
only socially relevant but empowering as well.
Her work was recognized with the Canadian Achievement Award
in 1991. Her play, Moonlodge, has been acclaimed across
Canada and the United States. She has performed new work in
theatres, galleries
and communities nationwide, in addition to her extensive career
in film, radio and television. Always concerned with issues
of cultural access, she initiated the Vancouver forum, “Telling
Our Own Story: Appropriation and Indigenous Writers/Artists” in
1989-90 and in 1990 was invited to join two committees of The
Canada Council: Racial Equality and First Peoples' Advisory.
In 1991 she also began developing the First Nations' Access
Program with the Satellite Video Exchange in Vancouver.
Full Circle: First Nations Performance is her new company formed
to initiate and develop contemporary work rooted in First Nations
experience. The River-Home is the latest video installation/performance
that she is developing with this ensemble. In 1994 her work was
included in This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary
Native American Creativity, an inaugural exhibition for a new
site of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian
Institute. She currently resides in Vancouver.
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