Native Modern Dance’s Pioneer

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Daystar/Rosalie Jones founded her company, Daystar: Contemporary Dance Drama of Indian America in 1980, thus pioneering the field of Native modern dance/Indigenous contemporary dance. She shares her trajectory from the reservation to becoming a nationally acclaimed teacher, performer and choreographer, as well as discusses the current state […]

May 10, 2018  |  Read Article

Where Global and Indigenous Meet

An Interview with Jack Gray BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHY BY JINKI CAMBRONERO Jack Gray is the artistic director and founder of Atamira Dance Company, a contemporary Māori contemporary dance theater company in Auckland, New Zealand. In this interview, he discusses the making and the impact of one of his most […]

March 29, 2018  |  Read Article

A Global Discussion

An Interview with Jack Gray BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN McDERMOTT Jack Gray is the artistic director and founder of Atamira Dance Company, a contemporary Māori contemporary dance theater company in Auckland, New Zealand. In this interview, he discusses how a Māori world-view can be applied through contemporary dancemaking, […]

March 26, 2018  |  Read Article

The Realization of “Not Knowing” with I Moving Lab

A dialogue with Dåkot-ta Alcantara-Camacho, Jack Gray and Hannah Krafcik; Edited by Hannah Krafcik “Dance serves as a tool to strengthen a doing of indigeneity – a way of knowing and interacting that both locates knowledge and generates and reinforces methods for knowing and connecting – and thus also serves […]

October 19, 2017  |  Read Article

Actions and Iterations of An Indigenous Female-Led Future

BY JACQUELINE SHEA MURPHY This past July at the New Moon Ceremony in Berkeley, California – which was called for in the “Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth” treaty – treaty signer Pennie Opal Plant spoke of two things needed in this time of planetary crisis. We need […]

August 3, 2017  |  Read Article