About the event
Miikaans is an Indigenous Mobile Movement Lab and research project led by scholar and completion pow wow grass dancer John Hupfield. This movement-based gathering is a generative meaning-making space designed to provide attendees with pathways to observe, think, and feel Anishinaabe choreographies grounded in Anishinaabeg lived experiences and urban Native diasporic space making practices. Activations by the six collaborators will partner powwow dance choreography in conversation with dibaajimowinaan (personal stories) to guide us through a range of experiences and praxis informing a praxis of mapping miikaans - life pathways. This session will end with an immersive group activity mapping powwow and kin-making as choreographies for finding life’s trails. https://icstudio.ca/miikaans
Miikaans: CUNY is:
Dr. John Waaseyaabin Hupfield, He/him (Anishinaabe, Wasauksing First Nation), Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, York University; Indigenous Mobile Movement Lab.
Maria Waabaziikwe Hupfield, She/her (Anishinaabe, Wasauksing First Nation), Canadian Research Chair, Transdisciplinary Indigenous Art; Indigenous Creation Studio; Assistant Professor, Indigenous Performance and Media, Department of Visual Studies / English + Drama, University of Toronto Mississauga.
Deanne Hupfield, She/her (Anishinaabe, Temagami First Nation), Powwow Educator, Fancy Shawl Dancer, and Social Media Influencer.
Melody Mckiver, They/them (Anishinaabe, Obishikokaang (Lac Seul) First Nation), Assistant Professor, Indigenous Music, Desaultels Faculty of Music, University of Manitoba; Member of Mizi’iwe Aana Kwat (LGBTQ2S+ Council) Treaty #3.
Dr. Karyn Recollet, She/her (Nehiyaw, Sturgeon Lake First Nation), Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies; Indigenous Digital Hub, University of Toronto.
Dr. Sam Aros-Mitchell, He/him (Texas Band of Yaqui Indians) Contemporary dancer; Artist in Residence, Rosy Simas Dance.
This performance and gathering is part of
AS PER SOME FORM: A Conference
October 24, 6-9pm in the Skylight Room
October 25, 10am-6pm, C Level (James Gallery and other sites)
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016
https://dtsaconf.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
Overlapping and intersecting forms, social forms and forms of assembly, collective research and forms of discourse, and, of course, per-form-ances are open to the public over an evening and a day in October. How are we in-formed and in-forming, formless and formulating? What relations between forms and contents, propositions and purposes, persons and patterns, are present here and there, within and without, our work and worlds?
Organized by Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Performance students Esther Neff, Jasmine Francois, Jess Applebaum, and Maria Litvan with special thanks to Mia Zhu and Philip Wiles.
Key Presenters/Performers: Gelsey Bell/ThingNY, Zelene Sulchit, Julia Santoli, Spens Hanvik, GOOD.W.Y.N with Crackhead Barney and TBA, Sibylle Peters, Dominique Duroseau, Joanna Ruth Evans, Kristen Holfeuer, Noah Ortega, John Waaseyaabin Hupfield, Maria Waabaziikwe Hupfield, Deanne Hupfield, Melody Mckiver, Karyn Recollet, Sam Aros-Mitchell, Iki Nakagawa, Nora Almeida.
In collaboration with the Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Performance. Supported by the Doctoral Theatre Students Association (DTSA) and the CUNY Graduate Center and the Doctoral Students Graduate Council (DSGC).
