Umyuangvigkaq: Montreal

 
 

The works of choreographer Emily Johnson serve as portals linking architecture, peoples, history, and visionary ideas. An artist from the Yupik nation originally from Alaska, she defines herself in relation to the present, past, and future realities that form who she is. Intent on working toward new, equitable structures, she seeks a path of self-determination for Indigenous artists. Based in Lenapehoking (New York), she hosts regular ceremonial bonfires in her neighbourhood that bring people together through chants and stories.

Take part in this kinstillatory round table conversation led by Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet.

June 4 2022

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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