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Performed at Voices Rising at Pride Festival 2013, Duwamish Land, Seattle, WA
Line Breaks Hip Hop Theatre Festival 2012 at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ojibwe Land
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CM 394 - Performing Indigenous Worldviews
This semester, I am going to be facilitating a learning laboratory through the University of Guåhan called FANHASSO - Performing Indigenous Worldviews. Here, I will be posting the readings and experiences that will guide our class on our learning journey. In the actual class, we will be engaging prayer, chant, ritual, breathe, embodiment exercises, freewriting, and connecting to the elements as part of our learning. I invite you to open your heart to the genius of these powerful spirits, thinkers, and makers, and then take your learning out into the sacred lands where you reside and do the same.
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Background story:
Many people outside of the university have asked about having access to the class, and there have been a number of people talking about the need for more Indigenous perspectives on choreography, dramaturgy, creative practice, and creative practice as research. On my last website, I had started to build a bibliography of material related to creating contemporary dance from an Indigenous perspective.
Also around this time, Nikkita Oliver, a DxÊ·dÉ™wÊ”abš Territory-based community organizer, artist, and abolitionist created a community syllabus for their course on Abolition at Seattle University.
All of these forces inspired me to share these resources in hope that they will inspire, nourish, and activate the transformative potential of indigenous creativity.
I MINA'HÅCHA NA FITGUA - WEEK 1
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Our invitation is to engage with the materials below and start to develop questions for ourselves about what our ways of knowing, being, and doing are.
Experience
One video of your choice in which Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer speaks
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=manulani+meyer
“Political Concepts: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson • Resurgence”
F(l)ight by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg)
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Look to the Mountain, Gregory Cajete (Santa Clara Pueblo) Pages 24-73
Aboriginal Epistemology, Willie Ermine (Sturgeon Lake First Nation)
“Theorizing Resurgence From Within Nishnaabeg Thought” by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg)
“Re-envisioning resurgence: Indigenous pathways to decolonization and sustainable self-determination” by Jeff Corntassel (Cherokee)
As we Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg)
Introduction, Chapter 1 & 2
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Music Videos by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg)
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Fanhallom, Fanoppe', Fanádingan - Ponder, Answer, Dialogue
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Håfa pine'lo-mu nu ini na tinaitai siha? Håfa hinalom-mu? Håfa sininte-mu?
What’s your physical, mental, and spiritual response to the readings? How did they make you feel?
Kao u na'fanhasso hao nu i pengnga' (kuturra)/tiningo' CHamoru?
what about this text reminds you of your experience with CHamoru (or your own ancestral) knowledge and culture?
Håfa un hahaso? Håfa taimanu na'chonnek i hinasso-mu pat i fina'tinason-mu?
How does this resonate (or not) with you? And/or push your thinking and practice?
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I MINA'HUGUA NA FITGUA - WEEK 2
This week, we are being visited by the one and only Milly Kimberly Grant (Maori / Tongan / Samoan / Hawaiian / Cambodian / Filipino / Thai / Chinese / European / Scandinavian). To prepare for her visit our invitation is to:
Experience
Raukumara piece
Quick response to support Karena's speech for our beautiful sister Taawhi at her wedding down in Waihirere at the Koria-Kingi-Collier family reunion. Contemporary piece resembling the united Pacific, encouraging new seedlings to grow forth from all winds as people connected to the earth rather than one piece of land, no segregation, no indifference...allowing spirit to move first then the humanity. That being the true core. Filmed by Timoti Nicholls.
Ritu Alkemi - An invocation by TÅ«Rongo Collective
MULTI-NESIANS: Milly Grant-Koria
Raukumara
Nohopuku - Antidote
Taitai / Read
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You may also want to watch this short film because it pairs with the reading.
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I MINA'TULU NA FITGUA - WEEK 3
This week, we will be visited by the highly esteemed Mr. Charles Koroneho. A protean artist, Charles Koroneho works in the fields of performance, culture and the visual arts. He created Te Toki Haruru, a conceptual platform (est.1997) to explore cultural collaboration and the intersection between choreography, theatre, visual arts and design. Te Toki Haruru projects are presented as performances, exhibitions, workshops and research exploring the collision between Maori cosmology, New Zealand society and global cultures.
To prepare for his class we will be viewing much of his work and reading an article by him and Carol Brown.
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Experience
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Tua o Te Arai, Movement Explorations Montreal, Canada 2017
Tua o Te Arai - Movement Exploration, Sydney Australia
Movement Culture Workshop with Charles Koroneho - hosted by MOonhORsE Dance Theatre
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CHARLES KORONEHO & CAROL BROWN Q&A | MODES OF CAPTURE SYMPOSIUM 2020 | DAY 2
Taitai / Read
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I MINA'FATFAT NA FITGUA - WEEK 4
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This week we will be visited by one of the co-conspirators of the powerful group Grupo Sotz'il, Daniel Fernando Guarcax Gonzáles and the very wise Dr. Maria Regina Firmino-Castillo. This class will focus on how we use dance to enliven indigenous worlds.
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Experience
Taitai / Read
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