website: www.reddiva.ca

Based in Toronto, red diva projects, the collaboration between veteran artists Michelle St. John and Marie Clements, is committed to deepening the vocabulary and aesthetic style of integrative Indigenous performance and storytelling. With a combined 60 years of experience, these senior artists have come together to pool their considerable knowledge to develop, create, and produce innovative works of live performance and new media that speak to contemporary Aboriginal realities while pursuing and promoting authentic form and vision, with an uncompromising artistic ferocity.

red diva projects is inspired to create works of live infused performance, influenced by modern storytelling methods that is ready to shape and shift, encircling Aboriginal artists of all disciplines that are willing to answer the call for social change through artistic expression. red diva projects specializes in the development of original works that reflect an integrated Aboriginal perspective, and a highly actualized creative process towards production. Since 2008, red diva projects has produced the three following three performances: (1) The Road Forward, which premiered at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, (2) Jesus Indian, and (3) Tombs of the Vanishing Indian, co-produced with Native Earth Performing Arts.

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