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Rosy Simas | |
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| File:Rosy Simas by Tim Rummelhoff Courtesy-McKnight Fellowships for Choreographers 2016.jpg Rosy Simas by Tim Rummelhoff Courtesy McKnight Fellowships for Choreographers, 2016 | |
| Born | Rosy Simas April 4, 1967 |
| Occupations | transdisiplinary artist, choreographer, performer, artistic director |
| Years active | 1992-present |
| Career | |
| Current group | Rosy Simas Danse |
| Former groups | Shattering Feet |
| Dances | she who lives on the road to war, yödoishëndahgwa’geh (a place for rest), WEave:Here, Weave, Within Our Skin, Transfuse, Skin(s), We Wait In The Darkness, Bloodlines, Threshold, i want it to be raining and the window to be open, Birds, Have Gun Will Shoot, Moments In Between, Four Years Later |
| Website | www |
Rosy Marie Simas is a Seneca multidisciplinary artist and choreographer in the United States.
Identity
[edit | edit source]Rosy Simas is Haudenosaunee Heron Clan and an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]Simas is a dance and transdisciplinary artist[2] and the founder and artistic director of Rosy Simas Danse.[3]
As a choreographer, Simas creates work for stage and installation that unifies movement, time-based media, sound, and sculpture. Since 2012 she has collaborated with French composer François Richomme.[4] Their collaborative works include: We Wait In The Darkness (2014);[5] Skin(s) (2012);[6] Weave (2019);[7] Threshold, a film with photographer Douglas Beasley (2013);[8] and WEave:HERE with Heid E. Erdrich (2019).[9]
In addition, Simas has collaborated with Deborah Jinza Thayer. In 2016, Simas and Jinza Thayer performed together in 14 U.S. cities, and finished their tour with a performance at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.[10][11]
Exhibitions
[edit | edit source]Solo
[edit | edit source]- We Wait In The Darkness, All My Relations Art, Minneapolis, MN. (2014)[12]
- All My Relations: A Seneca History, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian (2015)[13]
- Blood Lines: Images of Attachments, Seneca Iroquois National Museum, Salamanca, NY. (2020)[14]
- she who lives on the road to war, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN. (2020)[15]
Group
[edit | edit source]- SKEW LINES: a residency and installations, Heid E. Erdrich and Rosy Simas. SOO Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN. (2019)[16]
- Waasamoo-Beshizi (Power-Lines), Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND. (2019)[17]
- Identity/Identify, Iroquois Indian Museum, Howes Cave, NY. (2020–2021)[18]
Honors and awards
[edit | edit source]- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship (2013)[19]
- Twin Cities City Pages Artist of the Year (2014)[20]
- Sage Award for Film and Set Design (2014)[21]
- Guggenheim Creative Arts Fellowship for Choreography (2015)[22]
- McKnight Fellowship for Choreography (2016)[23]
- First People's Fund Artists in Business Leadership Fellow (2016)[24]
- Joyce Award from the Joyce Foundation with the Ordway Center of the Performing Arts (2018)[25]
- Dance/USA Artist Fellowships (2019)[26]
- Twin Cities City Pages Best Choreographer (2020)[27]
- McKnight Fellowship for Choreography (2022)[28]
- United States Artists Artist Fellowship (2022)[29]
- Doris Duke Artist Award (2023)
- Forge Project Fellowship (2025)
- First People’s Fund Performing Arts Fellowship (2025)
Publications
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- Simas, Rosy and Bodhrán, Ahimsa Timoteo (2019) Sovereign Movements Building and Sustaining Native Dance And Performance Communities A Dialogue, Movement Research Performance Journal, Sovereign Movements: Native Dance and Performance, Issue 52/53, Fall 2019.[30]
- Simas, Rosy and Morgan, Christopher K. (2019) Longer Scores: Native Choreographic Turns, Curatorial Visions, and Community Engagement[31]
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- Simas, Rosy (2022) "The body is an archive: Collective memory; ancestral knowledge, culture and history". in Music, Dance and the Archive. Edited by Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick, and Jakelin Troy[32]
References
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- ^ Carleton presents A Shared Evening Of Dance: This special performance features acclaimed Twin Cities dancers Rosy Simas and Deborah Jinza Thayer. News. Carleton College. May 22, 2016. https://www.carleton.edu/news/stories/carleton-presents-a-shared-evening-of-dance/
- ^ ArtZany!-Radio for the Imagination | Dance Artist Deborah Jinza Thayer. KYMN Radio. May 20, 2016. https://kymnradio.net/2016/05/20/artzany-radio-imagination-dance-artist-deborah-jinza-thayer-05202016/
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External links
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Categories:
- 1967 births
- 20th-century American artists
- 20th-century American women artists
- 21st-century American artists
- 21st-century American women artists
- 21st-century Native American artists
- American choreographers
- American modern dancers
- Dancers from Minnesota
- Heron Clan of the Iroquois
- Iroquois women
- Living people
- Native American dancers
- Native American female dancers
- Native American performance artists
- Native American women artists
- People from Jacksonville, Florida
- Seneca Nation of New York people