Emily Johnson Five College Dance Artist Talk

 March 26, 2021

Bessie, Guggenheim, and Doris Duke award-winning dance artist Emily Johnson will discuss her practice as a choreographer, a land and water protector, and an activist for justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and well-being. Johnson's dances function as portals and care processions, engaging audiences within and through space, time, and environment — in projects designed to interact with a place's architecture, peoples, history and role in building futures. Johnson will be joined in conversation by collaborator Karyn Recollet, an urban Cree scholar, artist, writer and Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto. Johnson and Recollet will advance this conversation in a second public talk on April 23, hosted by Smith College Dance with support from Five College Dance.

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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