Indigenous Choreographers at Riverside (ICR) Gathering 2016
Culver Center of the Arts
Morning Welcome/Workshop | Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 8:45am - 10:30am |
Morning Seminar (RSVP required for lunch) | Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 10:45am - 1:00pm |
Afternoon Seminar and Tribute | Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 1:00pm - 4:10pm |
California Dance Roundtable | Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 4:10pm - 6:00pm |
Evening Performance | Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 8pm - 9pm |
The Indigenous Choreographers at Riverside (ICR) project is an annual event that brings Indigenous dance artists and Indigenous studies scholars to campus to connect, discuss, and share work. We look at ways Indigenous dance, in many diverse forms and locations, engages Indigenous knowledges, and at the import of these articulations in the context of ongoing coloniality.
This year, the ICR project brings Indigenous dance artists and Indigenous studies scholars together to address Webs of Support for Indigenous Dance/Inside and Outside of Institutions. Topics to be discussed at this all-day conference include: how the academy and institutions support - or obstruct - possibilities for the thriving of Indigenous dance; and what parallel, alternative, and/or counter-hegemonic practices and responses are taking place outside of these institutions to support Indigenous dance. The conference includes a tribute and panel centered around critical perspectives on Native dance in California, including that discussed in a manuscript on Mohave bird singing that the late Michael Tsosie shared at last year's ICR. It concludes with an evening performance featuring new choreography.
Dance artists participating in this year's gathering include: Daystar/Rosalie Jones (Daystar: Contemporary Dance-Drama of Indian America); Rosy Simas (Rosy Simas Danse); Rulan Tangen and Anne Pesata (DANCING EARTH Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations); Emily Johnson (Emily Johnson/Catalyst); Louise Potiki Bryant (Aotearoa/New Zealand); David Smith (Pomo Dance Captain); Alejandro Ronceria (Canada); Jack Gray (Aotearoa/New Zealand and NYU); others TBC.
Wednesday, Nov. 2
MORNING WORKSHOP:
8:45-9:15:
Conference Registration/coffee
9:15-9:40
– Welcome: Jacqueline Shea Murphy (UCR
Professor and ICR director), Gerald Clarke (UCR Professor and Cahuilla leader),
Tyler Stallings (Artistic Director, Culver Center of the Arts).
9:45-10:30:
Movements, actions, possibilities,
futurities. Participatory workshop led by Emily
Johnson [Brithinee Studio]
MORNING SEMINAR: (RVSP required for lunch)
10:45-12:15
Seminar 1: Indigenous Dance Inside and outside of
Institutions: What is needed? Problems and Possibilities [Hammond Studio]
Facilitator: Julie Burelle (UCSD-Theater)
Karyn Recollet (University of
Toronto)
Rosy Simas (Rosy Simas Danse)
Tria Blu Wakpa (UC Berkeley)
Neil
MacLean (Ohlone Profiles) Rulan Tangen (DANCING EARTH)
Jack Gray (New Zealand/NYU)
12:15-1:00:
Lunch
AFTERNOON SEMINAR and
TRIBUTE:
1:00-3:00:
Seminar 2: Indigenous Dance and Institutional Support: What is happening? Continuities, Innovations,
Structures
Facilitator: Maile Arvin (UCR-Ethnic
Studies; Hawai’i)
Maria Firmino Castillo (CIIS; Guatemala)
Daystar/Rosalie Jones (Trent
University, Canada)
Rachel Fensham (University of
Melbourne, Australia)
Louise Potiki Bryant (New Zealand)
Lisa Wymore (UC Berkeley, US)
Tyler Stallings (Culver Center of the Arts, US)
Alejandro Roncería (choreographer,
Canada)
3:00-3:10:
Coffee break
3:10-4:10: Performative tribute to the late Michael
Tsosie, led by Rulan Tangen and Anne Pesata. [Brithinee studio]
CALIFORNIA DANCE ROUNDTABLE:
4:10-6:00: Roundtable: Physicalized Intelligence and California Indian
Dance: Provocations, Politics,
Possibilities (Honoring the work and wit of Michael Tsosie) [Culver
screening room]
Facilitator: Mark Minch
(UCR-Indigenous Studies/English)
Cutcha Rising Baldy
(San Diego State)
Gerald Clarke (UCR, Indigenous
Studies/Ethnic Studies)
David Smith (Pomo
Dance Captain)
Bernadette Smith (Pomo
Dancer)
Cahuilla bird singing
leaders (TBC)
EVENING PERFORMANCE:
8 p.m. Indigenous Choreography at the Culver
Featuring two new works by renowned Indigenous
choreographers:
Daystar/Rosalie Jones, Dancing the Four Directions
Rosy Simas Danse, Skin(s)
Response panel:
Michelle Raheja (UCR, English; Director, California Center
for Native Nations)
Mishuana Goeman (UCLA, Gender Studies]
Taisha Paggett (UCR, Dance)
Louise Potiki Bryant (New Zealand)
Rachel Fensham (Australia)
Alejandro
Roncería (Canada)
NOTE: This year's ICR is organized in collaboration with this UCHRI Working Group (info here: https://uchri.org/awardees/indigenous-dance-and-the-academy/)
The presentation of Skin(s) by Rosy Simas Danse was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Support has been provided by UCR College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) and the City of Riverside.
