April 19 to 22, 2023
Because You Never Asked
Tiotia:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal
Interdisciplinairy / Sound / Dance
Presented in English
April 19, 2023: 7:30pm
April 20, 2023: 7:30pm
April 21, 2023: 7:30pm
April 22, 2023: 7:30pm
Because You Never Asked is a dreamlike realm where historical fact meets auto-fictional storytelling in a multilayered, intergenerational experience. Based on discussions between musician, composer, and record producer Roger White and his grandmother, Marianna Clark (née Goldmann), about her experiences fleeing Nazi Germany and arriving in the UK as a refugee, the piece combines texts mined from diaries and letters that Marianna wrote in her late teens and early 20s with the recordings of her speaking in her 90s. The story unfolds simultaneously on two different timelines, merging past and present, to explore how memories are constructed and reconstructed over time. Because You Never Asked is an archive of complex family history. One that is innocently painful, naïvely complex, and beautifully tragic.
With Helen Simard’s choreography, performed by David Albert-Toth, Marie Lévêque, Brianna Lombardo, and Maxine Segalowitz.
A We All Fall Down Interdisciplinary Creations production.
credits
Performers: David Albert-Toth, Brianna Lombardo, Maxine Segalowitz, Marie Lévêque | Technical Director and Lighting Designer : Tiffanie Boffa | Choreographer: Helen Simard | Rehearsal Director: Nindy Banks | Costume Designer: Tricia Crivellaro