IndigeDIV Sharing

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IndigeDIV is a dance and conversation series held on Indigenous Creative Territory. Hosted by Raven Spirit Dance congruent with the Dance Centre’s biennial Dance in Vancouver (DIV), the series brings artists, presenters and audiences together to discuss, share and witness how Indigenous artistic expression is a vital part of our community and it’s deeply rooted values are the foundation that can hold us all up. There is a circle under all that colonization built, RSD invites you to sit in these circles to listen and share.
More Details: http://ravenspiritdance.com/indigediv/

ELOISE is a character-derived dance performance choreographed, written and performed by Jeanette Kotowich, which brings insight to the practice of honouring traditional territory. Eloise invites the audience to witness and participate in protocol with sincerity, hilarity, and gratitude. Through paralleling the irreverent against reverence, the performance experience is a provocation, asking the question ‘How do we give thanks?’ Eloise is honouring, the inner terrain of the body, the ties to land and experience that we carry with us from where we have come, and the physical land on which we currently stand.
We are all of our relations.

REMATRIATE
To rematriate is to return to the source. In response to the patriarchal systems that hold society hostage to continual technological advancement and an ever-growing disconnection to reality, this solo seeks to articulate potential pathways to peace and presence that are grounded in Contemporary Indigenous feminism.
Choreographer/Soloist: Olivia C. Davies
Outside Eye: Michelle Olson
Music: Michael Red, Surround
Production Support: Raven Spirit Dance / IndigeDIV, Dance in Vancouver, The Dance Centre

CONFLUENCE
Confluence is the gathering of Indigenous women in the rehearsal room and through the creative process we find meaningful connections to build scaffolding in which to hang our thoughts, desires and impulses as Indigenous dance artists. We explore water as the heart of being human. Being the source of life, it shapes and carves through our landscape, creating our rhythms and stories.
Featuring Collaborating Artists: Michelle Olson, Jeanette Kotowich, Margaret Grenier, Dynise Brisson
Past Collaborating Artists: Starr Muranko, Yvette Nolan

JESSICA MCMANN
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We acknowledge that this event takes place on ancestral traditional and unceded Coast Salish Territory. Unceded means that this land has never been surrendered, relinquished or handed over in any way. This includes the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation.
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