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RED RHYTHMS CONFERENCE
MAY 5th - 7th, 2004
UC Riverside Campus
Sherman Indian High School
 UC
RIVERSIDE will host a 3 day event exploring
American Indian dance as a vibrant, active, socio-cultural
historical practice. The event, sponsored by the Ford Foundation,
the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and
the UCR Center for Ideas and Society, will take place on the UCR
campus and at the Sherman Indian High School in Riverside from
Wednesday afternoon through Friday morning, May 5 to 7th.
The
event will explore American Indian dance as a vibrant, active,
socio-cultural historical practice. Our dual goal is to:
* SHOWCASE some of the exciting new
work that contemporary Native American and Aboriginal dancers and
choreographers are doing now, and facilitate a way for these
artists to meet and network with one another. The event will
include dance performances by local California Indian dance
groups, and an evening of Aboriginal and American Indian stage
dance featuring a half-dozen works by both established and
emerging Native dancers and choreographers.
* EXPOSE Dance scholars, and Native
American Studies scholars, to the richness of this dance, and
provide a forum for discussion of it and the complex historical
and theoretical issues it engages. The event will bring prominent
scholars of Dance Studies and Native American Studies to the event
to see the performances and talk about issues they raise.
These plenary roundtable discussions will
address
topics such as:
We expect that the roundtable sessions will raise questions and foster
spirited discussions about religious freedom and Native American dance;
federal land use and ceremonial dance space; the politics of powwow; the
traditions of playing "Indian"; media representation and the
construction of "Indianness"; issues of authenticity, purity and
continuity in Indian dancing, and the relations between staged and
ceremonial dance.
ORGANIZERS:
Michelle
Raheja and
Jacqueline Shea Murphy
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