The heart is a drum

By Lisa Richardson
Yvonne Wallace gave herself seven days to close her heart and put it back in her chest, having stretched it as wide and thin as a deer hide to allow her story to resound through it, to sing of bone-truths. She had performed her one-woman show, tszan, 20 times, from Whistler to Whitehorse, Vancouver to Dawson City—a remarkable enough feat of stamina given that 18 of the shows ran between Sept. 19 and Nov. 3, that the 70-minute performance is in two languages and no crew members were fluent enough in Ucwalmícwts to be able to prompt her if she forgot her lines, and that she was blazing trail all the way, entering into spaces—green rooms, fancy hotels, spotlights—where few Indigenous people are found.…

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• Whistler News

November 28, 2019

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