Get out of your zoom chair and come move with us! The Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP) is hosting a free workshop with award winning Seneca choreographer Rosy Simas this month for Native and other BIPOC folks ages 17+ to create rest and refuge!
On Wednesday May 26th at 7 PM ET/ 4 PM PT YIPAP will host Rosy’s “Rest & Refuge Workshop” online. Participation is free! Just email Madeline Sayet to sign up.
Rest and Refuge Workshop
Based on Rosy’s creative practice, this workshop is intended to create space for refuge and rest – for the body, the heart, the mind, and spirit. We will move, breathe, hear, see, and practice deep listening to ourselves and our environment.
More About Rosy Simas
Rosy Simas (Seneca, Heron Clan) is a transdisciplinary and dance artist who has historically presented her work as a choreographer.
Simas’ projects merge movement with media, sound, and objects for stage and installation. She unites cultural concepts and images with scientific and philosophical theories to create work that is literal, abstract, and metaphoric. Her work weaves themes of personal and collective identity with family, sovereignty, equality, and healing. She creates dance work with a team of Native artists and artists of color, driven by movement-vocabularies developed through deep listening.
Simas is a recipient of a Dance/USA Fellowship, Joyce Award from The Joyce Foundation, McKnight Fellowship for Choreography, Guggenheim Creative Arts Fellowship, First People Fund Fellowship, and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship.
Her dance works include Weave, Skin(s) and We Wait In The Darkness which have toured Turtle Island and France with the support of NEFA National Dance Project, MAP Fund, and National Performance Network.
Simas is currently in residence at Colorado College as the 2021 Inaugural Pamela Beatty Mitchell Artist in Residence in Contemporary Dance.
To register for the workshop or with any questions, please email Madeline Sayet