When:
Friday, December 1, 2017
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM CT
Where: Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts, Upstairs Black Box Theatre, 1949 Campus Drive; 10-30 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Cost: Free; public welcome.
Contact:
Jennifer Michals
(847) 491-4133
Group: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Co-Sponsor:
Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)
Category: Fine Arts
Description:
Skin(s) shares the beauty and diversity of how Native people identify and examine the contradictions, pride, joy, pain, and sorrow that arise out of our many dimensions of identity. The dance explores what we hold, reveal, and perceive through our skin.
Rosy Simas is a Minneapolis-based choreographer and teacher. She is Seneca from the Cattaraugus reservation in New York. Her work addresses how ancestry, homeland, culture, and history are stored in the body and can be expressed through dance.
Limited seating available. Please register through the Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/skins-performance-by-rosy-simas-danse-tickets-39291604246
Rosy Simas is a Fall 2017 Artist in Residence of Northwestern's Center for Native American and Indigenous Research and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. Co-presenters of the residency are the New England Foundation for the Arts, Mellon Dance Studies, the Department of Performance Studies, Program in American Studies, the Center for Writing Arts, and the Department of English.
When:
Saturday, December 2, 2017
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM CT
Where: Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts, Upstairs Black Box Theatre, 1949 Campus Drive; 10-30 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Cost: Free; public welcome.
Contact:
Jennifer Michals
(847) 491-4133
Group: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Co-Sponsor:
Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)
Category: Fine Arts
Description:
Skin(s) shares the beauty and diversity of how Native people identify and examine the contradictions, pride, joy, pain, and sorrow that arise out of our many dimensions of identity. The dance explores what we hold, reveal, and perceive through our skin.
Rosy Simas is a Minneapolis-based choreographer and teacher. She is Seneca from the Cattaraugus reservation in New York. Her work addresses how ancestry, homeland, culture, and history are stored in the body and can be expressed through dance.
Limited seating available. Please register through the Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/skins-performance-by-rosy-simas-danse-tickets-39291604246
Rosy Simas is a Fall 2017 Artist in Residence of Northwestern's Center for Native American and Indigenous Research and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. Co-presenters of the residency are the New England Foundation for the Arts, Mellon Dance Studies, the Department of Performance Studies, Program in American Studies, the Center for Writing Arts, and the Department of English.