Dance Me Outside

After the party's over, real life kicks into gear.

Dance Me Outside — Plot

Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.

• Release date
• March 10, 1995
• Runtime
• 84 min
• Genres
• Drama, Crime, Comedy
• Director
• Bruce McDonald

Dance Me Outside — Cast

Ryan Rajendra Black Silas Crow Adam Beach Frank Fencepost Jennifer Podemski Sadie Maracle Lisa LaCroix Illianna

K

Kevin Hicks Robert McVey

R

Rose Marie Trudeau Ma Crow

G

Gloria May Eshkibok Mad Etta

S

Selim Running Bear Sandoval Robert Coyote