Events
UCR Culver Center of the Arts presents
Indigenous Choreographers Residency
Culminating Performance
Thursday, April 19, 2012, 7-9 PM, Free Admission
RIVERSIDE, CA-UCR Culver Center of the Arts hosts the "Indigenous Choreographers Residency." It is a two-week research project bringing three accomplished Indigenous choreographers to the UCR campus and to Culver April 9-22, 2012. The featured choreographers are Tanya Lukin Linklater, a Alutiiq dancer, choreographer, and performance artist from Kodiak Island Alaska; Rulan Tangen of DANCING EARTH Contemporary Dance Creations, based in Santa Fe; and Jack Gray, a Maori (Ngati Porou, Ngati Kuhungunu, Ngapuhi, Te Rarawa) choreographer from Aotearoa/New Zealand, and founder of Atamira, Dance Company, New Zealand's leading Maori contemporary dance company. These choreographers will use Culver dance studios to develop and share their current choreographic work with one another. They will also foster discussion with UCR faculty and students and with Native high school students about "Indigenous choreography" as an art form and professional career path. The residency will include movement workshops, roundtable discussions, work on a collaborative dance-writing project, and a public performance in the Atrium Gallery. The event is organized by Jacqueline Shea Murphy, UCR Associate Professor, Department of Dance. "Indigenous Choreographers Residency" is supported in part by the Culver Arts Research Laboratory (CARL) Residnecy program.
Featuring the work and participation of choregraphers Jack Gray, Rulan Tangen, and Tanya Lukin Linklater. Jacqueline Shea Murphy, coordinator
APRIL 19, Thursday
7:00-9:00 pm Performance and Talk Back
Culver Center of the Arts Atrium, Free admission
New choreographic work by Jack Gray and Rulan Tangen, alongside an installation of dance video and photographic work by choreographer Tanya Lukin Linklater
Residency made possible with the generous support of the UC Riverside Chancellor's Strategic Investment Fund Initiative Grant, California Center for Native Nations, Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs, Culver Arts Research Lab (CARL) residency program, Department of Dance, and Native American Student Programs.
James Fenelon (Lakota)
Sun Dance to Ghost Dance: Local to Global Indegineous Movements
May 4, 2011
3:00 - 4:45 pm
Costo Library (4th floor Rivera Library), UCR
The 26th Annual California Indian Conference
October 28 - 29, 2011
