Miigis: Underwater Panther – A Red Sky Performance production

A powerful contemporary Indigenous dance work inspired by the epic Anishinaabe journey along ancient water routes from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. This performance brings to life themes of origin, memory, spirit beings, and the Seven Fire Prophecies—carried forward through striking movement, music, and visual design. 

About Red Sky Performance

Red Sky Performance is a global leader in contemporary Indigenous performance. Renowned for powerful storytelling and innovation across dance, theatre, music, and multimedia, the company collaborates boldly, pushes form, and creates productions that resonate with audiences across Canada and around the world.

Founded by Sandra Laronde, Red Sky has performed nearly 4,000 shows across 24 countries on four continents, driven by a mission to create inspiring experiences of contemporary Indigenous arts that bring meaningful transformation to society.

Red Sky is equally at home on world stages, national stages, and in rural and reserve communities. Its international appearances include two Cultural Olympiads (Beijing and Vancouver), World Expo Shanghai, the Venice Biennale, The Kennedy Center, and Jacob’s Pillow.

The company has earned 25 Dora Mavor Moore Awards and nominations, two Indigenous Music Awards, three International Youth Drama Awards, and the prestigious Smithsonian Expressive Award, among other honours.

Join us for more! Immediately following the performance, Kay Kenney will host a “Talkback” with the company, giving you the opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the performance. 

Kay Kenney is a professional contemporary dance artist from Kingston, ON, where she began her journey in 1994 at the Kingston School of Dance, studying Cecchetti Ballet. In 2009 she decided to pursue dance as a career and was accepted to the Professional Contemporary Dance Program at The School of Dance in Ottawa, where she was trained by many great national and international dance artists. Kay's professional dance career has led her to work, teach, create, and perform across Ontario, Quebec, and Europe, working with youth, pre-professional, emerging and professional artists. A company dancer of Ottawa Dance Directive since 2013, collaborating with artists like Tedd Robinson, Chick Snipper, Andrew Turner, Mélanie Dermers, Harold Rhéaume, Jocelyn Todd, Jesse Stewart, and artistic director Yvonne Coutts. Kay is also a company dancer for Social Growl Dance (Toronto) and is the rehearsal director for the company.  

Kay moved back to Kingston permanently, where she stands as the only Fletcher Pilates instructor. In 2016 she founded Movement Market Collective, a group of pre-professional and professional artists that come together to support and celebrate local, professional dance in Kingston. Through the collective, Kenney has choreographed and presented three evenings of professional local dance works, numerous pops up events, and opened her own studio space in YGK.  

In 2019 she was selected as a Youth Arts Ambassador representing Ontario Culture Days and was a recipient of the 2020 Kingston Mayor's Arts Award. Most recently, was awarded for Best Dance Film in the Shortwave Film Festival in Munich, Germany for a film project created in collaboration with Josh Lyon & Rachel Shaen. Kenney has collaborated with amazing local festivals, such as The Skeleton Park Arts Festival, The Reel Out Queer Film Festival, The Juvenis Festival, The Kick & Push Festival, AnArch Theatre, The Cellar Door Project, Calliope Collective, and many other talented independent artists in YGK.  

Kay is Artistic Director at Kingston School of Dance. She was a Kingston Grand Theatre Local Artist-in-Residence in 2021.