The piano in my mother’s home (WORKING TITLE)
This solo explores grief, loss, and love, woven together through movement, music, and text. Coming from a family of musicians, music has been a central part of my life and how we grieve. It has become ceremonious in my family to gather around the piano to sing, to mourn, to come together, even to have a concert as a celebration of life.
My grief has presented differently with each loss in my life, however my need to play my mother’s piano has been a constant. This solo will be a “duet” with a piano, a metaphor for connection, memory, and the intimate bond between the people I’ve loved and lost.
Through movement, sound and text, this attempts to capture the complexity of emotions tied to my memories of those I have lost. This is my love letter to all of those I have lost and stay connected to through music.
Presented with support from Native Earth Performing Arts and NAC Indigenous Theatre
ALL PERFORMANCES ARE MASK MANDATORY
RUN TIME:
60 minute Double-Bill, 15 minute intermission (paired with Sisterhood)
Keita would like to thank: Thank you to TO Love-in, National Ballet CreativAction’s Open Space Program, and Paprika for making this possible!
CAST AND CREW
- Choreographer and Performer: Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier (She/They)
- Mentor: Aria Evans (they/them)
- Mentor: Carmen Alvis (she/her)
- Mentor: Lara Kramer (she/her)
Schedule
Part of the 2026 Festival
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May 14 at 7:00PM
Paired with and Paprika 2026 Indigenous Arts Program: Sisterhood.
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Paprika Artist Participant
Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier
Choreographer and Performer
Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier is a queer, Métis, Franco-Manitoban artist from Treaty 1 Territory, based in Tkaronto. They are continuously discovering the role these intersecting identities play in their art as a dancer, choreographer and educator. She is the co-founder of the dance collective, Tendre Effort, with her collaborator Barbara Simms. Moving with care, sensitivity and community is at the forefront of how Kéïta creates. Their works are collaborative and tied to their identity and values. She is interested in creating interdisciplinary works in ways that question power, heteronormativity, and other societal norms that reject her identity. Her work has been presented across Toronto, as well as Hamilton, Kitchener, and most recently Montreal. Her most recent credits include touring her group work, Pillar of You, performing in adelheid’s newest work tender, and touring La Mitchin di Mitchif with Métis dance company, V’ni Dansi. She has studied Flying Low & Passing Through with David Zambrano, in Brussels, Belgium, and continues to develop these techniques in her teaching practice to share with the Toronto dance community.