Catherine writes:
During the winter of 2009 at the Banff Centre, Terri and I had a number of Pidgoyomon related performances, some casual and spontaneous and others more formal, culminating in a full length, 70 minute presentation in The Banff Centre’s Rolston Hall on Sunday March 8. We worked together for just over 2 months on the project. It was a great, intense period of creation. A Pidgoyomon highlight for me were the many fields trips Terri and I had collecting sounds and images, talking, imagining. That’s something is miss terribly, those outings. It was a wonderful time of connecting. We were challenged, we pushed personal boundaries and we made something. The time was forever and ended in a second. There were moments of despair where I wanted to quit, to leave and moments when I felt as full of life and living as I ever have.
Terri adds:
The intensity both of putting together so much new material in such a short space of time and of doing it in such a personal and intimate way was a completely new experience for me. Catherine and I didn’t have any agendas going in, other than my desire to make something staged, and to make it in some way connected to the place we were in. At the same time, it was not the kind of project I had ever done before, and it was a constant exhiliration to see what seemed to come to us completely of itself, and also a constant fight to keep expectations and preconceptions at bay. I feel the result was the most heartfelt and personal work I have been involved in.