Kattajjak: Nunavik-style Throat-Singing

Back by popular demand, the Kattajjak: Nunavik-style Throat-Singers Nina Segalowitz of Fort Smith, NWT, and Lydia Etok of Kangiqsualujjuaq, Quebec, will be the Gallery’s featured cultural performers.

Representing one of the purest and most fascinating traditions of Inuit culture, their movements and sound are mesmerizing. Two women adorned in their winter dress lock arms, manipulate air to produce exciting harmonies from their lungs and lips, rock back and forth and eventually end with an inevitable burst of laughter. Whoever is the first to laugh, and sometimes it is up to the audience to decide, loses the round.