Sundance 2023: Indigenous Drama ‘Fancy Dance’ Explores the Complexities of Family, Care and Community

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Sundance 2023: Indigenous Drama ‘Fancy Dance’ Explores the Complexities of Family, Care and Community
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'Fancy Dance' offers two dynamic central characters who are both grappling with loss in different ways.

, which Tremblay co-wrote with Miciana Alise; the two met during their time together as fellows in one of Sundance’s Indigenous Labs.

Set in Tremblay’s home nation of Seneca-Cayuga—and filmed almost entirely on Cherokee Land in cooperation with the Cherokee Film Office—’s characters speaking in a constantly shifting mix of Cayuga and English. While Cayuga is one of many Native languages with few fluent speakers, Tremblay imagines a community where the language lives on, having spent years taking intensive language courses to learn Cayuga herself.

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