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Being Future Being: World Premiere at BroadStage


  • BroadStage 1310 11TH STREET Santa Monica, CA 90401 US (map)

A dance work that uniquely integrates movement, rich storytelling, sound, and social practice.  You are invited to Gather Here.

Being Future Being is a constellation of activities, performances, and gatherings.

Being Future Being delves into the power of creation, building from an ancestral landscape of Indigenous power. Created by choreographer and writer Emily Johnson, who belongs to the Yup’ik Nation, and featuring a score by Pulitzer Prize-winning Diné composer Raven Chacon, this multilayered performance invites you to experience a transformation, ushering into focus new futures with the potential to reshape the way we relate to ourselves, our environment, and to the human and more-than-human cohabitants of our world.

In addition, Being Future Being: Land/Celestial, a site specific activation on the Santa Monica College Main Campus takes place on Thursday, September 8 at 11:15am and Saturday, September 10 at 1:00pm. Visit In Community for more information.

Being Future Being: Inside / Outward
Performances on and beyond BroadStage
1310 11th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401

7:30 pm, September 8, 9, 10
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Being Future Being: Land / Celestial
Outdoor performance on the Campus of Santa Monica College

11:15 am, September 8
1:15 pm, September 10
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Earlier Event: May 26
Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet: Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter
Later Event: October 15
Being Future Being: Land/Celestial in Lenaphoking
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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