A:gajë:gwah dësa’nigöëwë:nye:'
(i hope it will stir your mind)
2025
Created by transdisciplinary and dance artist Rosy Simas (Seneca Nation of Indians), A:gajë:gwah dësa’nigöëwë:nye:' (i hope it will stir your mind) is a dance work, an installation, and a community engagement project.
From Simas’ movement practice of deep listening to the earth, stars, ancestors, and each other comes a dynamic Native contemporary dance work that draws the audience into a space of relationality. The exhibition is a physical representation of this relationality, expressed through video, sound, and sculptural vessels. It is an exhibit space where visitors can rest. The community engagement activities create cultural exchange between Haudenosaunee artists and scholars and other Native peoples.
For A:gajë:gwah dësa’nigöëwë:nye:', French composer François Richomme has created an immersive sound score of sounds from Seneca lands that bathes visitors and audiences in an aural experience.
A:gajë:gwah dësa’nigöëwë:nye:' (i hope it will stir your mind) weaves a mind of peace into every aspect of its creation—every stitch of the set, every movement, sound, and image is imbued with a “good mind” and a peacemaking state of being.
Simas’ abstract transdisciplinary universe rejects false dichotomies between the traditional and contemporary, the sonic and somatic, the visual and the physical, even the separations between life and art.