Dancing Bear
Out of the darkness of the Canadian residential school system a survivor dances into the light.
DANCING BEAR is a story about the loss and recovery of identity; and about something deep in each of us perhaps more essential, more authentic, than identity itself.
Wednesday, September 24 - 2:15pm
Friday, September 26 - 11:30am
Sunday, September 28 - 11:30am
Tuesday, September 30 - 10:00am, 12:45am
In honour of Truth and Reconciliation Day on September 30, admission to DANCING BEAR will be free.
Thursday, October 2 - 11:30am
Saturday, October 4 - 11:30am
Rating: PG
Run Time: 57 MINS
Ernie Philip (DANCING BEAR) was taken from his family at the age of eight and placed in the Kamloops Residential School. When he left the school eight years later he had learned to hate the white man and to despise his own people. He had no idea who he was. He was haunted by thoughts of suicide.
Then he began to dance. And dancing, he came to understand all that had been lost, and how to recover it. His life has been a dance of recovery that has led him to a place of remarkable strength and power. DANCING BEAR is Ernie Philip’s story.
