Elisapie’s Uvattini fills the Chan Centre with beautiful language and landscapes

Uvattini | Elisapie | VIFF Live | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | September 28, 2024  The breathtaking beauty of landscape and language fills the theatre as Elisapie swishes her long, large-shouldered, fringed dress and sings covers of popular songs in Inuktitut while footage of Nunavik fills a screen behind her. The multimedia show is moving, deeply personal, and full of powerful songs, “not just songs I stole from white people,” Elisapie laughs.   After opening with “Uummati Attanarsimat” (Heart of Glass by Blondie) and “Taimangalimaaq” (Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper) from her latest album Inuktitut, which was shortlisted

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