PAMELA

(2008)

“the dark matter holding together the frippery of the visible universe..."

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Pamela resembles a dance and conjures a woman. Cressey, Kramer, and Johnson resemble Pamela and conjure a dance. Who is Pamela and why is she performing for you? She's flaunting her attributes and hiding her flaws. What is Pamela? The mundane becomes ritual, ritual becomes spectacle. Can Pamela exist without you?


Created collaboratively by
Jessica Cressey, Emily Johnson, Hannah Kramer

Directed by
Emily Johnson

 
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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