EMILY JOHNSON / CATALYST

 
 

Emily Johnson formed Catalyst in 1998. Her large-scale performance gatherings insist thrivance,
radical reworlding, and just futures.

Catalyst's tenet is Land Back.

Everything we do is for this purpose.

We make dances and performance gatherings, but really, we are re-worlding. 

Catalyst does this work with an amazing community of collaborators and we structure our work with the following four branches: Branch of Making, Branch of Action Speculative Architecture of the Overflow, Branch of Scholarship, and the Branch of Knowledge

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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