We’ve moved online! All workshops will be conducted through Zoom
[https://zoom.us/], an interactive platform that allows you to
participate in exercises and contribute to group conversation in your
workshops. The day before your workshop you’ll receive an email
with a link to Zoom for your workshop session.
Instructor: Daystar/Rosalie Jones
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The Native American HOOP symbolizes the “circle of life.” It was
the Lakota holy man Black Elk who described all of the Creator’s
work as a circle. It is our task to join that Circle in order to
experience and understand the unity of all things. This workshop will
begin with learning the basic “nature images” that can be created
with the hoop, in stillness or in a dance. By writing that experience
in prose or poetry, we will begin to discover the interconnectedness
of ourselves to nature – sky, water, plants, animals – and the
Earth.
Daystar/Rosalie Jones (Pembina ‘Little Shell’ Chippewa)
specializes in “native modern dance” and contemporary storytelling
as seen through the perspective and experience of ancestry and
cultural values. In 1980 she founded her own company Daystar:
Contemporary Dance-Drama of Indian America and since has created over
thirty choreographic works including _Tales of Old Man_ (Blackfeet)
and _Wolf: A Transformation_ (Anishinaabe) and the scripted
dance-drama_ No Home But The Hear _based on family story and
history. Published articles include _Modern Native Dance: Beyond
Tribe and Tradition_ in Native American Dance: Ceremonies and Social
Traditions (Smithsonian, 1992); a recent work _Dancing the Four
Directions_ is both a solo choreography and published article
in Dance, Movement & Spiritualities (Intellect Journals, 2017).
Now in permanent residence in Rochester, NY, Daystar continues to
create unique native-based dance theatre and is interested in sharing
that creativity – dance, song, storytelling – in workshop and
residency environments.
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