THE THANK-YOU BAR

(2009)

"A STUNNING EXAMPLE OF AN EMERGING CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AESTHETIC" 

Houston Chronicle

The New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” award winning work, THE THANK-YOU BAR is a performance/installation of dance, live music, storytelling and visual image connecting ideas of displacement, longing, and language to history, pre-conceived notions, architecture, and igloo-myth.

Created and performed by choreographer Emily Johnson with composers/musicians James Everest and Joel Pickard. Featuring beadwork by celebrated artist Karen Beaver, costumes by Angie Vo and Kari Multz, lighting design by Heidi Eckwall and paper sculptures by Krista Kelley Walsh. Includes companion concerts by experimental music duo BLACKFISH (James Everest + Joel Pickard).

 

 
 

The Thank-you Bar is made possible by support from the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, The MAP Fund, Subito/American Composers Forum, The Moore Family Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation, OutNorth, Franconia Sculpture Park, The McKnight Foundation, generous individuals and the National Performance Network (NPN). Major contributors of NPN are the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, MetLife Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). www.npnweb.org. 

 

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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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