Sovereignty in How We Express Ourselves
Margaret Grenier, director of Dancers of Damelahamid, an Indigenous dance company based in British Columbia, describes how the company is founded upon more than five decades of extensive song and dance revitalization.
April 22, 2024 | Read Article
“Making It” As An Indigenous Two-Spirit Dancer
What does “making it” in dance look like for a decolonizing Indigenous Two-Spirit in the United States? California-based dance artist Snowflake Calvert (Daniel Arizmendi) tries to answer this for herself.
September 14, 2020 | Read Article
The Spiritual Work of Dancing
Gabrielle Thomas, a choreographer at Atamira Dance Company in New Zealand, discusses how her choreography draws upon her Māori worldview and how motherhood and living in a small town inform her process.
May 11, 2020 | Read Article
“An Expression of My Māori Culture”
Louise Potiki Bryant - a choreographer and dance artist in Aotearoa/New Zealand - discusses her work, "Onepū," for Atamira Dance Company and how it draws on her feminine understanding of her Māori ancestry and mythos.
August 1, 2019 | Read Article
Dancing in the Middle of Two Worlds
Natalie Benally, a dancer with the contemporary Indigenous company Dancing Earth, reflects on her desire to create narratives centered on the contemporary Native experience.
July 11, 2019 | Read Article