Coming Full Circle

DEC 2014:  In a choreography workshop with the First Nations Student Association at the University of Kansas, participants created movements about their places in the world:  birthplace, tribal homeland, current residence.  I learned about these themes as a way to create choreography from Starr Muranko of Raven Spirit Dance while attending her workshop at the 2014 Talking Stick Festival .  These themes were selected to create choreography for "Color of the Earth" (one of the dances that make up the Ahwisgvsgo'i project exploring Indigenous planting traditions and our places in the world).

AUG 2016: short clip "Color of the Earth" performance presented by Art in the Loop at the Kansas City Library.  The movements you see are created as a result of Julia White Bull's (one of the workshop participant) expression of her homeland.  The original music is created by artist MGL in response to the "Color of the Earth" poem.  Grateful to all!!

What is ᎠᏫᏍᎬᏍᎪᎢ ?

ᎠᏫᏍᎬᏍᎪᎢ (Ahwisgvsgo'i) means she/he is always planting in the Cherokee language.  It's the name of Maura Garcia Dance's multi-media project about Indigenous planting traditions, the elements and our places in the world.  This blog explores the inspiration for the project, the developing parts and the creative process of putting it all together.  Ahwisgvsgo'i was born in the spring and is still developing, changing and growing.

 

More about the project - who, when, why...