Fatty Legs
PRESENTED BY XARA CHORAL THEATRE
The true story of an Indigenous girl’s resilience at Residential School.
Fatty Legs, which mixes song, storytelling and dance, is based on the children’s book of the same name by Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and Christy Jordan-Fenton. The production uses choral soundscapes, contemporary dance and text from the book to tell the true story of Olemaun, an eight-year-old Inuit child who left her home in the High Arctic to attend a residential school in Aklavik. Olemaun was tormented by her caregivers, forced to cut her hair, forsake her language and take the English name Margaret. Fatty Legs brings to light the suffering created by residential schools while celebrating the deep strength of a young child who refused to be broken by her experiences.
Venue and address
Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, 130 Navy Street, L6J 2Z4 Oakville, Canada
- Thu02.11.201720:00Tickets
Tickets for 2. November 2017
Fatty Legs
This event in Oakville was published by Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts.