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Between the Layers

Spiderwoman Theatre, Storyweaving, and Survivance
  • Jill Carter und University of Toronto Libraries
  • Gefördert durch: University of Toronto Libraries
Sprache: Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 2025
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The Spiderwoman Theatre, the longest-running Indigenous theatre company in North America has heralded the revolutionary methodology of Storyweaving for generations of Indigenous artists. Storyweaving is a distinct methodology that governs the dramaturgical structure and performed transmission of the company’s plays on the contemporary stage.  The practice of Storyweaving predates written history. It has been (and remains) specific to tribal storytellers across the continent.

The reclamation, then, of this aesthetic legacy by contemporary Indigenous storytellers is a crucial act of recovery. Jill Carter, an Anishinaabe-Ashkenazi theatre-worker and scholar, examines the process and development of Storyweaving. She studies how Storyweaving imagines and architects a functional framework that is being adopted and adapted by artists from myriad nations to create works (on the page and stage) that facilitate the healing, transformation, and survivance of their communities. Between the Layers pays respects to the teachers and visionaries that moulded this practice and encourages future generations to continue its legacy, while making a much-needed contribution to the study of Indigenous theatre and performance.

In its painstaking documentation of the Storyweaving artform, Between the Layers refuses the devaluation, erasure, and suppression of Indigenous culture, while contributing to the dissemination and celebration of Indigenous Knowledge Systems.

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Contributor: Jill Carter Jill Carter is an Anishinaabe-Ashkenazi theatre-worker and Associate Professor in the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies; Transitional Year Programme; and Centre for Indigenous Studies.

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eBook veröffentlicht am:
4. August 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781487584351
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Inhalt:
378
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