Lara Kramer - Gorgeous Tongue

Tramway and Dance North presents Gorgeous Tongue by Lara Kramer

Anchored in this world while orbiting a universe beyond, For Gorgeous Tongue unfolds remembrance through rhythmic scores. Lara Kramer embodies stories and dreams rooted in her Anishinaabe lineage, inviting audiences into the intimacy of her artistic constellation and toward imagined futures. Born from the chemistry and kinship between two artists, the work emerged through Kramer’s collaboration with Nêhiyaw/Métis dance artist Jeanette Kotowich. In this iteration, Kramer carries the solo forward, offering the work to the public.

The solo oscillates between regulation and transformation, exploring pleasure, instinct, and interior connection—an inner technology carried in the gut that opens portals across time and space and holds ancestral intelligence. Through voice, minimal sound, and material engagement, Kramer traces a metamorphosis of human and non-human, energy and friction. Moments of struggle, play, turmoil, and surrender trace the full arc of a star being’s journey, revealing perseverance, agency, and Indigenous futurity.

“Somewhere amongst all these strands, we are weaving our imagination. Dreaming for hard loving and future journeys. Transporting in soft gorgeous tongue.” — LK

Recommended for ages 12+

ACCESS - Highly Visual- No/Litte Text 

Audience Notes 

This performance includes loud sound/music and imagery that may evoke intense or heavy emotional themes.  Please note this performance includes a brief instance of partial nudity so admission is at parent or guardian’s discretion more information available at box office.

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Co-curated in collaboration with Tramway as part of RISE 2026, Dance North's Festival of Contemporary Dance and Performance. From Sat 23 May to Sat 6 June, RISE will honour global Indigenous artists whose work connects land, story, and movement worldwide. Visit the Dance North website

Produced by Lara Kramer Danse

Conceived, Created, Set and Sound Design by Lara Kramer

Performed by Lara Kramer

Guest artist Jo Vignola

Outside Eye Peter James

Lighting Design and Technical Director Jo Vignola

Knowledge Keeper Ida Baptiste

Elder Emerson Ninigishki’ing

Technical Director Assistant Chloé Depommier

 *Originally performed by and created in collaboration with Jeanette Kotowich

Co-produced by Festival TransAmériques + Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV

With the support of Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Creative Residencies Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV + Compagnie Marie Chouinard + MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels)

Premiered at the Festival TransAmériques on May 31, 2024, presented in association with Agora de la danse + Tangente