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Daystar / Rosalie Jones
Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer,
Writer, Cultural Facilitator
Artistic Director:
Contemporary Dance-Drama of Indian America
Daystar (Rosalie Jones) is the founder and
Artistic Director of DAYSTAR: Contemporary
Dance-Drama of Indian America. The Company was incorporated in
1980, and has performed throughout the United States, Canada, and
in Germany, Bulgaria and Turkey. Born on the Blackfeet
Reservation in Montana, Daystar is of Pembina Chippewa ancestry
on her mother’s side. She holds a Master’s Degree in dance from
the University of Utah, and studied at the Juilliard School in NYC
as a scholarship student of Jose Limon. She was responsible for
the revitalization of the Performing Arts Department at the
Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico during
the early 1990’s, when she was Chair of the Department. Ms. Jones
has pioneered the concept of “native modern dance” throughout the
United States over the past 30 years. She is the author of the
“Native Modern Dance: Beyond Tribe and Tradition”, a chapter she
wrote for the publication Native American Dance: Ceremonies and
Social Traditions (1993). Her script No Home But
The Heart was published this spring by UCLA in Keepers of
the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women’s Theater (2003).
The stage production of No Home But The Heart, which
Daystar wrote, choreographed, directed and in which she continues
to perform, has toured to Santa Fe, NM, University of Lethbridge,
Woodland Cultural Centre, Canada, and Dublin, Ireland, among other
venues. In 1995, she received a two-year NEA Choreographer’s
Fellowship. Today she remains active as a dancer, choreographer,
teacher, and writer.
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Daystar/Rosalie Jones
No Home But The Heart |
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Daystar/Rosalie Jones
Prayer of the First Dancer |
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