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v. 09/2023

EMPLOYMENT

Artistic Director of Rosy Simas Danse, Minneapolis, 2012-Current

Distinguished Visiting Scholar, College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo,
hosted by the departments of Indigenous Studies and Theatre and Dance, 2023-2024

HONORS
Twin Cities City Pages Best Choreographer, 2020
Twin Cities City Pages Artist of the Year, 2014
Minnesota Sage Award for Outstanding Design, 2014

FELLOWSHIPS
Doris Duke Artist Award, 2023
McKnight Foundation Choreography Fellowship, 2022
USA Doris Duke Fellowship, 2022
Dance USA Fellowship to Artists, 2019
McKnight Foundation Choreography Fellowship, 2016
First People’s Fund Artist Fellowship, 2016
Guggenheim Foundation Creative Arts Fellowship, Choreography, 2015
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship, Choreography, 2013

GRANT AWARDS
First People’s Fund Seeding Cultural Treasures, 2023
Native Arts & Cultures Foundation SHIFT award, 2021
Tiwahe Foundation Empowerment Award, 2013, 2016, 2020
Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Award, 2014, 2016 & 2018
Joyce Award from the Joyce Foundation, 2018
Our Nations Spaces award from First People’s Fund in partnership with Dance Place, 2014

AWARDS with Rosy Simas Danse
National Performance Network Creation Fund Award, 2023
NEA Arts Projects, 2022, 2023-2024
MAP Fund, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022
National Dance Project Production and Tour Award from New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), 2013, 2015, 2017 & 2022
National Performance Network Storytelling Award, 2020
Knight Arts Challenge Award from the Knight Foundation for Weave in partnership with O'Shaughnessy at St. Catherine’s and the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, 2018
National Performance Network Creation & Development Fund Awards, 2015 & 2018
USArtists International award from Mid-Atlantic Foundation for the Arts, 2017

COMMISSIONS
she who lives on the road to war 2021 & 2022: Weisman Arts Center in Minneapolis
Weave 2019-2020: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul; Alabama Dance Council in Birmingham; Maui Arts & Cultural Center; and Dance Place in Washington D.C.
Skin(s) 2014-2016: Right Here Series in Minneapolis; Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis; EastSide Arts in Oakland; and LaPeña in Berkeley.
Within Our Skin, 2014-2016: University of Minnesota Department of Dance, Northwestern University Department of Dance, St. Paul Conservatory for the Arts; and SUNY Fredonia.

RESIDENCIES
Weisman Art Museum Target Studio for Creative Collaboration, Minneapolis, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Inaugural Pamela Beatty Mitchell Residency in Contemporary Dance at Colorado College Department of Theater and Dance. 2021
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 2020
Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Tallahassee, 2018
Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, 2016
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art NMAI Social Engagement Residency, Santa Fe, 2014 

CURATION
Oyate Okodakiciyapi: An Evening of Native Contemporary Dance, in collaboration with Dayna Martinez and the Ordway Center for Performing Arts, St. Paul, MN, 2017
Choreographer’s Evening, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2016
Échange: The Twin Cities/Montréal Dance Exchange, The Cowles Center, Minneapolis, 2014

CHOREOGRAPHY
she who lives on the road to war 2019-2020: Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis).
Weave:HERE 2019: with Heid E. Erdrich, All My Relations/NACDI at Northern Spark (Minneapolis).
Weave 2019-2020: premiere Ordway (St. Paul); Dance Place (Washington D.C.); Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Intercultural Journeys (Philadelphia), and Alabama Dance Council (Birmingham & Poarch Creek Band of Indians).
Within Our Skin – solo 2017-2018, a part of Stories In Motion tour presented by the Alabama Dance Council: Baker High School, Mobile; Murphy High School, Mobile; Dunbar Creative Performing Arts, Mobile; Mobile Contemporary Arts Center; Escambia County Middle School, Atmore; Huxford Elementary, Atmore; Poarch Band of Creek Indians Reservation, Atmore; Loveless Senior Center, Montgomery;  Booker T Washington Magnet High School, Montgomery; Bellingrath Middle School, Montgomery; City Hall Auditorium, Montgomery; University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; The Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, Tuscaloosa; Paul Bryant High School, Tuscaloosa.
Transfuse 2015-2020: Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara; Walker Art Center, (Minneapolis), Colorado College, (Colorado Springs).
Skin(s) 2015–2018: Full Circle Productions Talking Stick Festival (Vancouver, BC); Intermedia Arts (Minneapolis); Indigenous Choreographers at UC Riverside; LaPeña (Berkeley); Northwestern University (Evanston); EastSide Arts (Oakland); City of Chicago Cultural Center; and Gimaajii-Mino-Bimaadizimin (Duluth).
Within Our Skin 2015-2016: SUNY Fredonia; St. Paul Conservatory for the Arts (St. Paul); Northwestern University Department of Dance (Evanston); and University of Minnesota Department of Dance (Minneapolis).
We Wait In The Darkness 2014–2018: MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels); Indigenous Choreographers at Riverside; All My Relations Arts (Minneapolis), Red Eye Theater (Minneapolis); The Myrna Loy Center (Helena); Dance Center at Columbia College of Chicago; SUNY Fredonia; Maui Arts & Cultural Center; The Autry (Los Angeles); Dance Place (Washington D.C); ODC (San Francisco); Gimaajii-Mino-Bimaadizimin; The Edge Center (Big Fork); Carleton College (Northfield); Living Ritual Festival (Toronto); DANSEM 20 (Marseille, France); and American Realness at Abrons Arts Center (New York City).
Threshold, a dance & film collaboration with Douglas Beasley and François Richomme. 2013-2016: U.S. premiere, Dreamland Arts (St. Paul); Canadian premiere, Montréal Arts Interculturels (MAI); Southern Theater (Minneapolis); and MNTV series (IFP/ Twin Cities PBS/Walker Art Center).

EXHIBITS
she who lives on the road to war, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, Sept 2022- Feb 2023
she who lives on the road to war, All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Oct-Dec 2022
yödoishëndahgwa'geh (a place to rest), RSD three thirty one space, Minneapolis, MN, Nov-Dec 2021
yödoishëndahgwa'geh (a place to rest), All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Aug-Sept 2021
Blood Lines, Seneca Iroquois National Museum/Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center, Salamanca, NY, 2020-2021
she who lives on the road to war, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, 2019-2020
Skew Lines, with Heid E. Erdrich, Soo Vac, Minneapolis, MN, 2019
Waasamoo-Beshizi (Power-Lines), group exhibit, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, 2019
Seneca Women and Haudenosaunee Homelands: Memories and Movements, a part of American Realness solo show
at Abrons Arts Center, New York City, 2018
We Wait In The Darkness, solo show The Edge Center, Big Fork, MN, 2016; Gimaajii-Mino-Bimaadizimin, Duluth, MN 2015; and All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 2014
All My Relations: A Seneca History, solo show Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Chicago, IL, 2014–2015

PUBLICATIONS 
Author
”The body is an archive: Collective memory; ancestral knowledge, culture and history.” Music, Dance and the Archive. Edited by Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick and Jakelin Troy, 2022
With Sam Aros Mitchell “Playing Indian, Between Idealization and Vilification; Seems You have to Play Indian to be Indian” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 44, 2020
“My Making of We Wait in the Darkness” Dance Research Journal, vol. 48, no. 1, 2016, pp. 29–32
Guest editor and contributor
Movement, Research Performance Journal: Sovereign Movements: Native Dance and Performance, Issue 52/53, Fall 2019

VISITING ARTIST RESIDENCIES 
Carleton College Department of Theater and Dance, Northfield, 2021
Inaugural choreographer of the Pamela Beatty Mitchell Residency in Contemporary Dance at Colorado College in the Department of Theater and Dance, Spring 2021.
University of South Carolina, 2021
Colorado College Department of Theatre and Dance, Colorado Springs, CO, 2020
American University Dance Program Guest Artist, Washington D.C., 2020
Cowles Chair Visiting Artist Residency, University of Minnesota Department of Theatre & Dance, Minneapolis, MN, 2016
Northwestern University, Department of Theatre & Dance, Evanston, IL, 2015-2016
SUNY Fredonia Department of Theatre & Dance, Fredonia, NY, 2015 

TEACHING
Instructor, Contact Improvisation & Body Re-Education, Zenon Dance School, 2010-2015
Instructor, Contact Improvisation & Body Re-Education, Studio 303, Montréal, 2008, 2009, 2013

MASTER CLASSES
Yale Indigenous Performing Arts, 2021
Buffalo University Department of Theater and Dance, 2021
Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, 2020
Colorado College Department of Theatre and Dance, Colorado Springs, 2020
Dance Place, Washington D.C., 2015, 2020
Intercultural Journeys, Philadelphia, 2019
Maui Arts & Cultural Center, 2015, 2019
Alabama Dance Festival, Birmingham, 2018, 2019
City of Chicago Cultural Center, 2018
Carleton College, Northfield, 2017, 2018
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 2018
Living Ritual Festival, Toronto, 2017 
Indigenous Choreographers at University of California Riverside, 2014, 2016
Northwestern University, Department of Theatre & Dance, Evanston, 2015-2016
Carroll College, Helena, 2015
SUNY Fredonia Department of Theatre & Dance, Fredonia, 2015
Dance Center at Columbia College of Chicago, 2014
LaPeña, Berkeley, 2017
EastSide Arts, Oakland, 2017
Indigenous Choreographers at UC Riverside, 2016
St. Paul Conservatory for the Arts, St. Paul, 2015
ODC, San Francisco, 2015
Full Circle Productions Talking Stick Festival, Vancouver, 2012, 2014
The Myrna Loy Center, Helena, 2014
MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), 2014

LECTURES
EXCEL’s Virtual Visionaries, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, 2020
ListenIN, Intercultural Journeys, Leeway Foundation and Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia, 2019
The Making of Weave, Alabama School of Fine Art, Birmingham, 2018
My Making of We Wait In The Darkness, Congress on Research in Dance and Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, Paloma, CA, 2016
Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Evanston, 2015 
Northwestern University, One Book One Northwestern, Evanston, 2015 
University of California at Riverside, Indigenous Choreographers at Riverside, 2013
Minnesota Dance Lecture Series, Cowles Center for the Performing Arts, 2018
The Making of Weave, Alabama School of Fine Art, Birmingham, 2018*
Provocation, Living Ritual: International Performing Arts Festival, Toronto, 2017

PANELS
The Fibers With Which We Weave: Native Artists Decolonizing Performance and Place, American Realness, NYC, 2018
National Performance Network Conference, Pittsburgh, 2018
Northwestern University, Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, 2017
Congress on Research in Dance and Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, Paloma, CA, 2016 
University of California at Riverside, Indigenous Choreographers at Riverside, 2014National Performance Network Conference, San Francisco, 2016
Native American Realness, American Realness, NYC, 2017
National Performance Network Conference, Austin 2016
Contemporary Native American Artists: Issues and Trends, National Performance Network, Portland, 2015
Indigenous Contemporary Dance, Talking Stick Festival, Vancouver, 2014
Socially Engaged NMAI Artists, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art, 2014
Presenting Indigenous Performance, APAP, NYC, 2013 

AFFILIATIONS
DANCE/USA Board of Directors, 2017-Current