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GIVING UP

(2003)

“...lush and mysterious...the five dancers, dressed in white pantaloons and camisoles, are both awkward and elegant, coquettish and athletic...” 

Star Tribune


Incorporating a fine tuned sense of the tragic, an unscrupulous determination, and a reverence for the rowdy we were joined by piano diva and fanciful French singer, Rhoda Reighard. This work was dedicated to my grandma who at the time owned a roadside bar in Alaska and who also has a reverence for the rowdy, a fierce determination, and a fine tuned sense of everything.

 

Created with support from the Jerome Foundation.

 
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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