April 12, 2016

Granoff Center, Studio 1

Native Girl Syndrome was dance artist Lara Kramer’s new piece inspired by the experience of her own grandmother who migrated from a remote First Nations community into an unfamiliar urban environment as a young woman. The piece explored the effects of cultural disorientation, assimilation and the self-destructive behavior she endured.

The performance was followed by a public conversation. The event was sponsored by the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, the Mellon Dance Studies Colloquium,  Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, the Swearer Center’s Engaged Scholars Program, Creative Arts Council and Pembroke Center.