Skin(s)
2016–2018
Premiere: October 2016, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
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About this work
Skin(s) is a dance, a visual arts exhibit, a film, and a web media project celebrating the diversity of how Native people identify. The Skin(s) project explores what we hold, reveal, and perceive through our skin.
Credits
Set/choreography/film:
Rosy Simas
Performers in Oakland iteration:
Zoë Klein, Sam Mitchell, Rosy Simas
Original Lighting:
Valerie Oliveiro
Oakland Lighting Interpretation:
Christopher Fleming
Music:
François Richomme
Poem:
Heid E. Erdrich
Tour Locations
2016:
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Kelly Strayhorn Studios, Pittsburgh, PA
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Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
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Choreographers at Riverside, Riverside, CA
2017:
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La Peña, Berkley, CA
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Eastside Arts Alliance, Oakland, CA
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Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2018:
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City of Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
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American Indian Community Housing Organization, Duluth, MN
Skin(s)
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Acknowledgements
The creation of Skin(s) was supported by a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Intermedia Arts, La Peña Cultural Center, and Eastside Arts Alliance. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).
The Skin(s) tour was supported by NEFA National Dance Project Tour Award with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Skin(s) was supported by a 2015 Guggenheim Creative Arts Fellowship for Choreography awarded to Rosy Simas.
Skin(s) composer François Richomme appears via a partnership with Association Artefactdanse, Montpellier, France.
Skin(s) iterations in Minneapolis, Oakland, Berkeley, Evanston, Chicago, and Duluth were supported by over 50 donors from across Minnesota and Turtle Island.
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