Events Calendar
Lecture:
Indigenous Choreographers: Accessing Indigenous Archives: Embodied Explorations
Saturday, April 14, 2012
3:30–4:30 p.m.
Location:
Arts Building , Dance Studio, ARTS 100
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Description:
DEPARTMENT OF DANCE
Indigenous Choreographers Residency 2012
Jack Gray • Rulan Tangen • Tanya Lukin Linklater
Accessing Indigenous Archives: Embodied Explorations
Short presentation and roundtable discussion about the ways Indigenous history and knowledge are archived and accessed through indigenous dance.
Presented at this year's annual UC graduate student conference Dance Under Construction XIII: Re-imagining Archives in Motion
Moderator: Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Panelists:
• Rulan Tangen, director of DANCING EARTH Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations
• Jack Gray, founding dance artist for Atamira Dance Company: Maori Cotemporary Dance Theatre and director of Jack Gray Dance
Respondent: Michael Phillip Tsosie
Jack Gray is an independent freelance dance artist based in Auckland, New Zealand. He is currently a choreographer and dancer with Atamira Dance Company: Maori Contemporary Dance Theatre which he founded in 2000 and director of Jack Gray Dance
Rulan Tangen is internationally accomplished dance artist and choreographer, and Founding Artistic Director and choreographer of DANCING EARTH Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations
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Photo: Rulan Tangen, credit: Joe McNally
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Tangen and Gray are the second set of “Indigenous Scholars in Residence” hosted by the California Center for Native Nations in 2012
Residency made possible with the generous support of the UC Riverside Chancellor’s Strategic Investment Fund Initiative Grant, California Center for Native Nations, Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs, Culver Arts Research Lab (CARL) residency program, Department of Dance, and Native American Student Programs.
Additional Information:
Open to:
General Public
Admission:
Free
Sponsor:
Contact:
Prof. Jacqueline Shea Murphy, UCR Department od Dance
(951) 827-3245
jshea@ucr.edu
