Tania Isaac

Tania will travel to her home place of St. Lucia to work with SAIDI, an alternative mental health counseling agency, to create IMPRINT, a project for St. Lucian youth, 17-24 years old. Tania will guide participants through movement, theater and writing exercises that unravel pressing personal and social issues, shaping them into performance narratives that will then be woven into a performance installation. This work is important to Tania, as all too often small territories like St. Lucia drown while the rest of the world reclines on their beaches. Feeling her chances of changing world economics to create actual equity in trade and politics are slim, she focuses on ways to affect the fractured society of St. Lucia that has nurtured her intellect, expression and values. Through her work with the youth in IMPRINT, Tania will facilitate the creative telling of their concerns and opinions through movement to an audience of their peers, parents and civic leaders, ultimately creating a template for future programs to using the region’s strength, its art, to begin to repair social rifts. The youth will present their presentation to government officials, in a hope to open a dialogue where youth voices are heard.

Production as part of the CEC's New Edge Residency program. Support towards equipment rental.