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EMPLOYMENT
2012-Current Artistic Director of Rosy Simas Danse, Minneapolis
2023-2024 Visiting Distinguished Scholar College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo.
HONORS
2020 Twin Cities City Pages Best Choreographer
2014 Twin Cities City Pages Artist of the Year,
2014 Minnesota Sage Award for Outstanding Design
FELLOWSHIPS
2023 Doris Duke Artist Award.
2022 McKnight Foundation Choreography Fellowship
2022 USA Doris Duke Fellowship.
2019 Dance USA Fellowship to Artists.
2016 McKnight Foundation Choreography Fellowship.
2016 First People’s Fund Artist Fellowship.
2015 Guggenheim Foundation Creative Arts Fellowship, Choreography.
2013 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship, Choreography.
AWARDS
2022 MAP Fund
2021 Native Arts & Cultures Foundation SHIFT Award.
2013, 2016, 2020 Tiwahe Foundation Empowerment Award.
2014, 2016 & 2018 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Award.
2018 Joyce Award from the Joyce Foundation.
2014 Our Nations Spaces award from First People’s Fund in partnership with Dance Place.
AWARDS with Rosy Simas Danse
2013, 2015, 2017 & 2022 National Dance Project Production and Tour Award from New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA).
2020 National Performance Network Storytelling Award.
2017, 2018 & 2020 MAP Fund.
2018 Knight Arts Challenge Award from the Knight Foundation for Weave in partnership with O’Shaughnessy at St. Catherine’s and the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts.
2015 & 2018 National Performance Network Creation & Development Fund Awards.
2017 USArtists International award from Mid-Atlantic Foundation for the Arts.
COMMISSIONS
2021 & 2022 she who lives on the road to war: Weisman Arts Center in Minneapolis and Gibney in NYC.
2019-2020 Weave: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul; Alabama Dance Council in Birmingham; Maui Arts & Cultural Center; and Dance Place in Washington D.C.
2014-2016 Skin(s): Right Here Series in Minneapolis; Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis; EastSide Arts in Oakland; and LaPeña in Berkeley.
2014-2016 Within Our Skin: University of Minnesota Department of Dance, Northwestern University Department of Dance, St. Paul Conservatory for the Arts; and SUNY Fredonia.
RESIDENCIES
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, Weisman Art Museum Target Studio for Creative Collaboration, Minneapolis.
2021 Inaugural Pamela Beatty Mitchell Residency in Contemporary 2020 Dance at Colorado College Department of Theater and Dance. Colorado College, Colorado Springs.
2018 Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Tallahassee.
2016 Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh.
2014 IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art NMAI Social Engagement Residency, Santa Fe.
CURATION
2017 Oyate Okodakiciyapi: An Evening of Native Contemporary Dance, in collaboration with Dayna Martinez and the Ordway Center for Performing Arts, St. Paul, MN.
2016 Choreographer’s Evening, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
2014 Échange: The Twin Cities/Montréal Dance Exchange, The Cowles Center, Minneapolis.
CHOREOGRAPHY
2019-2020 she who lives on the road to war: Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis).
2019 Weave:HERE: with Heid E. Erdrich, All My Relations/NACDI at Northern Spark (Minneapolis).
2019-2020 Weave: premiere Ordway (St. Paul); Dance Place (Washington D.C.); Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Intercultural Journeys (Philadelphia), and Alabama Dance Council (Birmingham & Poarch Creek Band of Indians).
2017-2018 Within Our Skin – solo, a part of Stories In Motion tour presented by the Alabama Dance Council: Baker High School, Mobile; Murphy High School, Mobile; Dunbar Creative Performing Arts, Mobile; Mobile Contemporary Arts Center; Escambia County Middle School, Atmore; Huxford Elementary, Atmore; Poarch Band of Creek Indians Reservation, Atmore; Loveless Senior Center, Montgomery; Booker T Washington Magnet High School, Montgomery; Bellingrath Middle School, Montgomery; City Hall Auditorium, Montgomery; University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; The Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa; Paul Bryant High School, Tuscaloosa.
2015-2020 Transfuse: Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara; Walker Art Center, (Minneapolis), Colorado College, (Colorado Springs).
2015–2018 Skin(s): Full Circle Productions Talking Stick Festival (Vancouver, BC); Intermedia Arts (Minneapolis); Indigenous Choreographers at UC Riverside; LaPeña (Berkeley); Northwestern University (Evanston); EastSide Arts (Oakland); City of Chicago Cultural Center; and Gimaajii-Mino-Bimaadizimin (Duluth).
2015-2016 Within Our Skin: SUNY Fredonia; St. Paul Conservatory for the Arts (St. Paul); Northwestern University Department of Dance (Evanston); and University of Minnesota Department of Dance (Minneapolis).
2014–2018 We Wait In The Darkness: MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels); Indigenous Choreographers at Riverside; All My Relations Arts (Minneapolis), Red Eye Theater (Minneapolis); The Myrna Loy Center (Helena); Dance Center at Columbia College of Chicago; SUNY Fredonia; Maui Arts & Cultural Center; The Autry (Los Angeles); Dance Place (Washington D.C); ODC (San Francisco); Gimaajii-Mino-Bimaadizimin; The Edge Center (Big Fork); Carleton College (Northfield); Living Ritual Festival (Toronto); DANSEM 20 (Marseille, France); and American Realness at Abrons Arts Center (New York City).
2013-2016 Threshold, a dance & film collaboration with Douglas Beasley and François Richomme: U.S. premiere, Dreamland Arts (St. Paul); Canadian premiere, Montréal Arts Interculturels (MAI); Southern Theater (Minneapolis); and MNTV series (IFP/ Twin Cities PBS/Walker Art Center).
EXHIBITS
Sept 2022- Feb 2023 she who lives on the road to war, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN.
Oct-Dec 2022 she who lives on the road to war, All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
Nov-Dec 2021 yödoishëndahgwa’geh (a place to rest), RSD three thirty one space, Minneapolis, MN.
Aug-Sept 2021 yödoishëndahgwa’geh (a place to rest), All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
2019-Sept 2020 Blood Lines, Seneca Iroquois National Museum, Salamanca, NY.
2019-2020 she who lives on the road to war, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN.
2019 Skew Lines, with Heid E. Erdrich, Soo Vac, Minneapolis, MN.
2019 Waasamoo-Beshizi (Power-Lines), group exhibit, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND.
Seneca Women and Haudenosaunee Homelands: Memories and 2018 Movements, a part of American Realness solo show at Abrons Arts Center, New York City.
We Wait In The Darkness, solo show The Edge Center, Big Fork, MN, 2016; Gimaajii-Mino-Bimaadizimin, Duluth, MN 2015; and All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 2014
2014–2015 All My Relations: A Seneca History, solo show Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Chicago, IL.
PUBLICATIONS
2020 With Sam Aros Mitchell “Playing Indian, Between Idealization and Vilification; Seems You have to Play Indian to be Indian” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 44.
Fall 2019 Guest editor and contributor of the Movement, Research Performance Journal: Sovereign Movements: Native Dance and Performance, Issue 52/53.
2016 “My Making of We Wait in the Darkness” Dance Research Journal, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 29–32.
VISITING ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2021 Carleton College Department of Theater and Dance, Northfield.
Spring 2021 Inaugural choreographer of the Pamela Beatty Mitchell Residency in Contemporary Dance at Colorado College in the Department of Theater and Dance.
2021 University of South Carolina.
2020 Colorado College Department of Theatre and Dance, Colorado Springs, CO.
2020 American University Dance Program Guest Artist, Washington D.C.
2016 Cowles Chair Visiting Artist Residency, University of Minnesota Department of Theatre & Dance, Minneapolis, MN.
2015-2016 Northwestern University, Department of Theatre & Dance, Evanston, IL.
2015 SUNY Fredonia Department of Theatre & Dance, Fredonia, NY.
TEACHING
2010 - 2015 Instructor, Contact Improvisation & Body Re-Education, Zenon Dance School.
2008, 2009, 2013 Instructor, Contact Improvisation & Body Re-Education, Studio 303, Montréal.
MASTER CLASSES
2021 Yale Indigenous Performing Arts
2021 Buffalo University Department of Theater and Dance
2020 Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation
2020 Colorado College Department of Theatre and Dance, Colorado Springs.
2015 2020, Dance Place, Washington D.C.
2019 Intercultural Journeys, Philadelphia
2015 2019, Maui Arts & Cultural Center
2018, 2019 Alabama Dance Festival, Birmingham
2018 City of Chicago Cultural Center
2017, 2018 Carleton College, Northfield
2018 University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
2017 Living Ritual Festival, Toronto
2014, 2016 Indigenous Choreographers at University of California Riverside.
2015-2016 Northwestern University, Department of Theatre & Dance, Evanston.
2015 Carroll College, Helena
2015 SUNY Fredonia Department of Theatre & Dance, Fredonia
2014 Dance Center at Columbia College of Chicago
2017 LaPeña, Berkeley
2017 EastSide Arts, Oakland
2016 Indigenous Choreographers at UC Riverside
2015 St. Paul Conservatory for the Arts, St. Paul
2015 ODC, San Francisco
2012, 2014 Full Circle Productions Talking Stick Festival, Vancouver
2014 The Myrna Loy Center, Helena
2014 MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels)
LECTURES
2020 EXCEL’s Virtual Visionaries, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
2019 ListenIN, Intercultural Journeys, Leeway Foundation and Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia.
2018 The Making of Weave, Alabama School of Fine Art, Birmingham.
My Making of We Wait In The Darkness, Congress on Research in 2016 Dance and Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, Paloma, CA.
2015 Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Evanston.
2015 Northwestern University, One Book One Northwestern, Evanston.
2013 University of California at Riverside, Indigenous Choreographers at Riverside.
2018 Minnesota Dance Lecture Series, Cowles Center for the Performing Arts.
2018* The Making of Weave, Alabama School of Fine Art, Birmingham.
2017 Provocation, Living Ritual: International Performing Arts Festival, Toronto.
PANELS
2018 The Fibers With Which We Weave: Native Artists Decolonizing Performance and Place, American Realness, NYC.
2018 National Performance Network Conference, Pittsburgh.
2017 Northwestern University, Center for Native American and Indigenous Research.
2016 Congress on Research in Dance and Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, Paloma, CA.
2016 University of California at Riverside, Indigenous Choreographers at Riverside, 2014National Performance Network Conference, San Francisco.
2017 Native American Realness, American Realness, NYC.
2016 National Performance Network Conference, Austin.
2015 Contemporary Native American Artists: Issues and Trends, National Performance Network, Portland.
2014 Indigenous Contemporary Dance, Talking Stick Festival, Vancouver.
2014 Socially Engaged NMAI Artists, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art.
2013 Presenting Indigenous Performance, APAP, NYC.
AFFILIATIONS
2017-Current DANCE/USA Board of Directors