Indigeneity and Identity

An Interview with Dakota Camacho BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Dakota Camacho is a multi-disciplinary artist from Låguas yan Gåni, the ancestral homeland of Matao/CHamoru people (Dominating culture calls this archipelago the Mariånas Islands). Dakota works in spaces of Indigenous performance, musical composition, community engagement, and education. Guiya (they) is also a co-founder […]

March 11, 2019  |  Read Article

On Composition, Choreography and Collaboration

An Interview with François Richomme BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT François Richomme is a French composer who creates compositions in collaboration with choreographers. His one-of-a-kind approach to composition has led him to work with choreographers worldwide. Here, he shares some of his process and what makes him unique, as well as his […]

November 8, 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