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Being Future Being: Land/Celestial in Lenaphoking

  • Lenapehoking New York City, NY US (map)

Saturday, October 15, 3:00 and 5:00 pm

Location TBA for all ticket holders

Being Future Being: Land / Celestial is an outdoor performance activation that will take place at an offsite location Saturday, October 15th, at 3:00 and 5:00 pm. The location in Lower Manhattan will be shared with ticket holders directly on the day of the event. Audiences are offered an encounter filled with story, movement, and sound that invites us into relationship with our more-than-human kin, and calls us to honor and protect the beings we live amongst.

About Being Future Being:

Celebrated for a distinguished body of dance works, Emily Johnson unites audiences in a shared experience of movement, place, history, collective action, and the continuance of Indigenous cultural practices and perspectives. Her newest dance performance and process, Being Future Being, delves into the power of creation, with new stories that seek to sustain a world that must begin again. Co-commissioned by New York Live Arts and featuring an original score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon, Being Future Being conjures present joy as it seeks to build a radically-just and Indigenized future, one we can live in now and foster for generations to come.

Being Future Being: Land/Celestial
Tickets & Info

Earlier Event: September 8
Being Future Being: World Premiere at BroadStage
Later Event: October 20
Being Future Being: Inside/Outward at New York Live Arts
Office, Minneapolis, MN, US612.597.7400emily@catalystdance.com

Emily Johnson / Catalyst is based on Mannahatta in Lenapehoking. We work to pay respect to Lenape homeland, people and ancestors past, present, and future by organizing with communities from the Lenape diaspora to build pathways for Lenapeyok return. We have been taught to name Lenape Nations and say cama’i to our relatives from Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, OK; Delaware Nation of Oklahoma in Anadarko, OK; Stockbridge-Munsee and Mohican Community in Wisconsin; Moravian Delaware of the Thames in Ontario, Canada; Munsee-Delaware Nation at Munceytown in Ontario, Canada; Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario, Canada. 

We strive to be in good relations with our kin—human and more than human—and in effort to support growing kinstillatory relations and sovereign, liberated futures we are anti-colonial and abolitionist in all capacities. We are committed to on-the-ground water and land protection, consistent decolonization work, and Land Back. 

Quyanaqvaa-lli elpeni to all Sovereign Nations, Indigenous and First Nations people who live in relation to and from Lenapehoking and upon whose lands we work and tour.

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