| May 2010 |
La MaMa Experiment Theater Club presents Red Mother as a fully realized production, co-produced with Loose Change Productions. |
| February 2008 |
Red Mother presented by the Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. |
| November 2007 |
Production workshop by Indigenous Performance Initiatives and Two Spirit Productions at Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space at Trent University. Full integration of the dance and movement elements is realized. Lighting Designer Don White, from Peterborough, joins the creative team. |
| June 2007 |
Creative workshop in New York City with Spiderwoman Theater and Two Spirit Productions. Script revisited with the addition of dance and musical elements. Set and Costume Designer Christine Plunkett, from Toronto, attends the workshop and begins integration of visual design elements. |
| October 2006 |
Laboratory production with urban ink productions at the Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver, BC. Composer Russell Wallace begins work on the music composition and sound design. |
| June 2006 |
Completion of a production draft at Galiano Island with urban ink productions/fathom lab’s New Works Division and dramaturges Paula Danckert and Marie Clements. |
| April 2004 |
Begins collaboration with daughter Murielle Borst, at the Indian Summer Festival at the American Indian Community House in New York City. In their long history of working together, this marks their first collaboration with Murielle as director. Dance, movement, and text began to be more clearly integrated at this time. |
| October 2003 |
Weesageechak Begins to Dance Festival, with Native Earth Performing Arts. She continues work with dramaturge Paula Danckert and explores sound and storytelling technique to begin to find the voice for the piece. |
| March 2003 |
Chosen as the first Lipinsky resident (Feminist-in-Residence) at San Diego State University’s Women’s Studies Department and began work on Red Mother, writing and exploring the structure for the piece in the studio. |
| January 2003 |
Works with dramaturges Paula Danckert and Peter Hinton in Montreal to begin formulating the ideas for the piece. |
| April 2002 |
Muriel Miguel invited to the Aboriginal Arts Program at The Banff Centre, to participate in The Aboriginal Brecht Project, designed to explore the issue of justice in Brecht’s plays from an Indigenous perspective. She performs a scene from Mother Courage and her Children and is inspired to create a piece where the voices of Indigenous women who suffered wars, conflicts, and victimization in the centuries since first contact would be recognized. |
