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WATERLOO TORONTO CAMBRIDGE LAKE ONTARIO HAMILTON CANADA GRIMSBYST. CATHARINES UNITED STATES NIAGARA FALLS BUFFALO LAKE ERIE EAST AURORA ARCADE BELFAST ANGELICA ALFRED STATION ULYSSES WELLSBORO PENNNESWY LYVOARNKIA TIOGA STATE FOREST ARNOT TROUT RUN WILLIAMSPORT PGERNANNSDY CLVAANNYIOAN MILTON SELINSGROVE DALMATIA 510 20 40 DUNCANNON NORTH KILOMETERS APPALACHIAN TRAIL HARRISBURG HERSHEY MANHEIM LANCASTER PHILADELPHIA 7th COUSINS An Automythography Erin Brubacher and Christine Brubaker Book*hug Press TORONTO FIRST EDITION copyright © 2019 by Erin Brubacher and Christine Brubaker text on pages 112–115 copyright © 2019 by Erum Khan Endnotes, or, A Talkback on pages 170–174 © 2019 by Christopher Stanton and Andrea Nann Journey Gesture photographs on pages 44–51 by Samuel Choisy, choreographed by Andrea Nann; production photographs on page 78 and page 99 by Sophia Wolfe, taken at PushOFF; all other photographs by Erin Brubacher. Used with permission. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: 7th cousins : an automythography / Erin Brubacher and Christine Brubaker. Other titles: Seventh cousins Names: Brubacher, Erin, 1979– author. | Brubaker, Christine, author. Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190199466 | Canadiana (ebook) 20190199474 | ISBN 9781771665469 (softcover) | ISBN 9781771665476 (HTML) | ISBN 9781771665483 (PDF) | ISBN 9781771665490 (Kindle) Subjects: LCSH: Brubacher, Erin, 1979–—Travel—Northeastern States. | LCSH: Brubaker, Christine—Travel—Northeastern States. | LCSH: Women performance artists—Travel— Northeastern States. | LCSH: Women performance artists—Canada—Biography. | LCSH: Northeastern States—Description and travel. | LCSH: Hiking—Northeastern States. | LCSH: Hospitality—Northeastern States. Classification: LCC F106 .B78 2019 | DDC 917.404/44—dc23 The production of this book was made possible through the generous assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Book*hug Press also acknowledges the support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Book Fund. Book*hug Press acknowledges that the land on which we operate is the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. We recognize the enduring presence of many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples and are grateful for the opportunity to meet and work on this territory. CONTENTS Performance Collaborators Legend / 6 History of First Performances / 7 One version of 700 kilometers: A Photo Essay by Erin Brubacher / 8 Welcome / 29 7th Cousins: Performance Text / 32 Endnotes, or, A Talkback with Directors Christopher Stanton and Andrea Nann / 170 On Hosting and Guesting / 175 Time, a postlude / 180 Acknowledgements / 186 PERFORMANCE COLLABORATORS LEGEND CO-CREATORS/ PERFORMERS: EB Erin Brubacher CB Christine Brubaker DIRECTORS: AN Andrea Nann, director/choreographer CS Christopher Stanton, director/dramaturge PRODUCTION TEAM: KH Kaitlin Hickey, production designer EK Erum Khan, production assistant Our collaborators’ voices appear in this book in a few ways. Most notably, AN crafted many of the stage directions within and CS wrote most of the editorial endnotes you’ll find at the conclusion of the performance text. This book would not be what or how it is without our collaborators. We know this and want you to know it too. —EB/CB 6 · HISTORY OF FIRST PERFORMANCES December 2014 Brubach/ker Family Dinner, Christine Brubaker’s Home, Toronto July 2015 The Walk, Pennsylvania–New York–Ontario July 2015 Walk With Us, a site specific invitation, with audience-participants across North America and Europe August 2015 The Unpacking, Summerworks Performance Festival, Toronto July 2016 7th Cousins Workshop Performance, The Theatre Centre, Toronto June 2017 7th Cousins, The Royal Canadian Legion, Toronto; Presented by Nightwood Theatre August 2017 Excerpt of 7th Cousins, The Brubacher Family 300th-Year Anniversary, Millersville, Pennsylvania August 2017 The Unpacking, Summerworks Performance Festival, Toronto September 2017 7th Cousins, St. Matthews United Church, Toronto; Presented by Nightwood Theatre December 2017 7th Cousins, The Emmet Ray Bar, Toronto; Presented by Nightwood Theatre June 2018 7th Cousins, The Ismaili Centre, Toronto; Presented by Nightwood Theatre June 2018 7th Cousins, Conrad Grebel Chapel, Waterloo; Presented by Green Light Arts February 2019 Excerpt of 7th Cousins, The Russian Hall, Vancouver; Presented by Theatre Replacement at PushOFF · 7 From July 7 to August 6, 2015, we walked seven hundred kilometres, from Pennsylvania to Ontario. A stranger asked if we were walking to learn how to be together. This was certainly part of it. —CB and EB 8 · · 9 10 ·

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