Tanya Tagaq

Tanya Tagaq – Split Tooth: Saputjiji

Work in Progress Showing & Open Rehearsal with Post Show Q&A

Banff Centre, Jenny Belzberg Theatre

Experience a work-in-progress showing and open rehearsal of Tanya Tagaq’s Split Tooth: Saputjiji. This presentation offers audiences a rare look into the creative process behind a new performance in development. A Q&A with the creative team will follow the presentation.

Split Tooth: Saputjiji is a new performance drawing on the elemental, poetic, and personal currents that course through Tanya Tagaq’s acclaimed book Split Tooth. At its center is Tagaq herself, an artist whose vocal power collapses boundaries. Her performance summons genetic memory and future possibilities, weaving them into an ecstatic sonic field.

Directed by Kaneza Schaal, known for her boundary-breaking work in opera and theatre, Saputjiji merges Tagaq’s vocal landscapes into a staged environment that blurs music and memory, landscape and breath, body and cosmos. Split Tooth: Saputjiji is not an adaptation so much as an expansion — an expression of thought rendered through sound and image.

Channelling the Split Tooth universe into a new theatrical language, the performance carries the book’s lyrical power into new dimensions, revealing the deep continuities between language and breath, violence and transcendence, music and body. The work initiates a conversation with the future through mythic realism.

Be among the first to experience this bold new work-in-progress before its full premiere.

Press

“One of the avant-garde’s most dynamic performers.” — Rolling Stone

“This fiercely charismatic Inuk singer’s throaty voice demands full attention, whether she’s whispering in her softest register or howling at the sky.” — NY Times

“The Inuk experimental musician joins landscape, culture and resistance.” — Pitchfork

Photo by Celina Kalluk