On Native-ness, Decolonization, and Iterative Dance-Making

An Interview with Rosy Simas BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Rosy Simas is a Native contemporary choreographer from the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Her new work, Weave, weaves through multiple cities and iterations. Here, she discusses white voyeurism of Native cultures, decolonization, and her process of iterative dance-making. This interview took place […]

October 8, 2018  |  Read Article

Supporting Individual Expression

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Gretchen Pick, executive director of Young Dance in Minnesota’s Twin Cities region. Young Dance offers youth classes and performance opportunities, and started to include dance classes for children and adults with disabilities in 2010 after realizing nothing else was being […]

October 1, 2018  |  Read Article