Sandra Laronde’s Miigis: Underwater Panther retells Anishinaabe legend through Indigenous dance, music, and visual arts
is a tour de force spanning thousand-year-old legend to recent history, through contemporary dance.
While the Anishinaabe travel for survival, the dancers convey a deep sense of cohesion as they work together, interact with the environment, and become a part of nature. The small but mighty ensemble uses traditional songs that will be familiar to many Indigenous people and fans of this genre. The music and background animations accompany the dancers to create a pleasing otherworldliness as the performers struggle and transition from a salt water world to a freshwater one.
The journey is disrupted by the newly returned dancer and the disease he blows on them. His arrival quickly turns the natural world into an apocalyptic hellscape. The backing animation and lighting design take a turn for the dark and ominous. It’s
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