Simas will share her philosophical approach to dance making. Participants will create a score that considers relationally and non-extractive methods of generating movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rosy\u00a0Simas<\/strong> is a\u00a0transdisciplinary and dance artist. She lives and works in Mni Sota\u00a0Makoce (Minneapolis, MN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simas is an enrolled\u00a0member of the Seneca Nation, Heron clan. Her knowledge of her\u00a0Haudenosaunee\u00a0family and lineage is the\u00a0underpinning of her relationship to culture and history\u2014stored in her\u00a0body\u2014which is expressed through her work\u2014of moving people, moving images, and\u00a0moving objects that she makes for stage and\u00a0installation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simas\u2019 work weaves personal and collective identity themes with family, sovereignty, equality, and healing. Simas creates dance work with a team of Native and BIPOC artists, driven by movement-vocabularies developed through deep listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simas\u2019 dance works include she who lives on the road to war,<\/em>Weave, Skin(s),<\/em> and We Wait in the Darkness<\/em>, which have toured throughout Turtle Island. Simas\u2019 installations have been exhibited at the On\u00f6hsagw\u00eb:de\u2019 Cultural Center, All My Relations Arts, SOO Visual Arts, and the Weisman Art Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simas has been honored as a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Choreography Fellow (2013), Guggenheim Creative Arts Fellow (2015), McKnight Foundation Choreography Fellow (2016, 2022), Dance\/USA Fellow (2018), a Joyce Awardee from the Joyce Foundation (2018), United States Artists Fellow (2022), and as a Doris Duke Artist Awardee (2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her other accolades include a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation SHIFT award and multiple awards from New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, the MAP Fund, and National Performance Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simas is the artistic director of Rosy Simas Danse (RSD) and RSD Studios’ creative spaces for Native, Black, Indigenous, and artists of color. She is a 2023-2024 Visiting Distinguished Scholar at the University at Buffalo.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Co-sponsored by the Bates Museum of Art\u2019s Exploding Native Inevitable Project and the Bates Dance Festival.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Rosy Simas by Tim Rummelhoff Courtesy-McKnight Fellowships for Choreographers 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alt text: Rosy Simas is seated and wearing a loose black button-down top. She has medium brown skin, dark black eyes, and dark brown hair. She is wearing a black shirt and multi-colored beaded hoop earrings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Simas will share her philosophical approach to dance making. Participants will create a score that considers relationally and non-extractive methods of generating movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1736,"featured_media":5227,"template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_bates_event_start":"2024-01-27 10:00:00","_bates_event_end":"2024-01-27 12:00:00","_bates_event_allDay":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"event-tag":[],"class_list":["post-5230","bates_events","type-bates_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"start":"2024-01-27T10:00:00","end":"2024-01-27T12:00:00","location":{"rendered":"
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