Dancing Indigenous Worlds

Jacqueline Shea Murphy is associate professor of dance at the University of California–Riverside. She is the author of The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories (Minnesota, 2007) and founder of the ICR (Indigenous Choreographers at Riverside) Gathering project.

"This remarkable text effectively establishes Indigenous dance studies as a vibrant time-based field of inquiry. Crafting theoretical models in direct relationship to repeated practices of witnessing and experiencing, Jacqueline Shea Murphy models a rich future for scholarship as a shared encounter among stakeholders to performance. Urgent, important, and written to endure as a document of continued creativity, Dancing Indigenous Worlds confirms the intellectual possibilities of translating gesture to text and of moving with care."-Thomas F. DeFrantz, Northwestern University "In Dancing Indigenous Worlds, Jacqueline Shea Murphy performs a deeply ethical, deliberate ‘witnessing’ of Indigenous dance making. In these stories of how to create radical relationality between bodies, land, history, food-and milk as more than food-the reader should be aware they are being readied; a space has been prepared, the invocations have been made, contemporary movements connected to dance genealogies, past brutalities cast in the surrounding shadows, the spotlight is on bright, and you must step into this world that has been danced for you. There is room for all, and everything, as Shea Murphy reminds us, begins with respect."-Michelle Erai, author of Girl of New Zealand: Colonial Optics in Aotearoa   "The widely varied contexts within Dancing Indigenous Worlds demonstrates the vibrancy of current respectful, relational, Indigenous choreographies."-CHOICE

• Contents Preface Introduction Choreographing Relationality Modern Dance and Modernity/Coloniality Recalibrations of Relational Exchange Intersections of Dance and Indigenous Studies 1. Choreographies of Relational Reciprocity Hosts and Visitors, Aotearoa, 2009 Manaakitanga in Motion: Choreographies of Possibility With Jack Gray Hashtag Mitimiti: Where You At? With Andrew Kendall, Diane Kendall, Tia Reihana-Morunga, Deborah Cocker, and Toni Temehana Pasion 2. Choreographies of Perspectival Relationality Dance Workshop, Riverside, California, 2006 With Rulan Tangen Expansive Relationality/Of Bodies of ElementsIdentities and Accountabilities, 2019 With Rulan Tangen Interlude/Pause/Provocation Refuge Rock: Otonabee River, Ontario, 2010 With Tanya Lukin Linklater 3. Choreographies of Relational Abun-dance Precarity Abundance and Abun-dance Emily Johnson/Catalyst 4. Choreographies of Relational Refusings Yirramboi, Melbourne, Australia, 2017 Facing Refusal Teachings in Listening Indigenous Dance Works/Indigenous Dance Making/Indigenous Writing With Rosy Simas, Mishuana Goeman, Tanya Lukin Linklater, and Daystar/Rosalie Jones Conclusion: Closing and Opening Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index