Wareniki

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Wareniki is a contemporary circus, theatre, and dance exploration of the importance of cooking, community, and knowledge sharing, particularly in the context of Mennonite-Canadian women. The process of making wareniki (a mennonite cottage cheese pierogi), and the stories that come with it, are an embodied means of sharing knowledge and creating community within the gendered-political space of the kitchen. This work explores Maya´s heritage as a descendant of eight generations of Mennonite women in Canada, the way the process of cooking shapes our lives, and the impact of immigration and settlership on these processes. Maya wrote, directed, and produced Wareniki and collaboratively choreographed it with the five other brilliant women who were a part of this production.