Emily Johnson - "Being Future Being" Program

Photo by Gema Galiana, Pictured: Emily Johnson

Emily Johnson

Being Future Being: Land / Celestial

OCT 15, 3PM & 5PM

Being Future Being: Inside / Outwards

OCT 20-22, 7:30PM

Created by Emily Johnson

in Collaboration with and Performed by

Ashley Pierre-Louis, Jasmine Shorty, Stacy Lynn Smith, Sugar Vendil, Emily Johnson

Composed by Raven Chacon

Sound Design and Engineering by Chloe Alexandra Thompson

Lighting Design by Itohan Edoloyi

Scenic Design by Emily Johnson and Joseph Silovsky

Mask, Wearables, Portal Design and Construction by IV Castellanos

Video Mapping and Filming by Chloe Alexandra Thompson

Quilt Beings Designed by Korina Emmerich

Quilts Designed by Maggie Thompson

Portal Tattoos by Holly Mititquq Nordlum

Costume Design by Raphael Regan

Costume Draping by Cathleen O’Neal

Production Management by IV Castellanos

Press Relations Janet Stapleton

Administrative Stewardship by Kevin Holden

Management Support by George Lugg

Additional contributors during the work’s creation process include Zachary Crumrine, Joelly Dundorf, Sara Lyons, Drew Michael, and Tyler Rai.

Running time Oct 15: 75 mins

Running time Oct 20 - 22: 85 mins

Stay Late conversation with the Branch of Knowledge on October 21

Emily Johnson / Catalyst is based on Mannahatta in Lenapehoking. We strive to be in good relations with our kin—human and more than human—and, in effort to support growing kinstillatory relations and sovereign, liberated futures, we are anti-colonial and abolitionist in all capacities. We are committed to on-the-ground water and land protection, consistent decolonization work, and Land Back.

We are happy to bring Being Future Being to Lenapehoking, and to share this work with people from these unceded lands. Catalyst works to pay respect to Lenape land, people and ancestors past, present, and future by organizing with individuals and communities from sovereign Lenape Nations to build pathways for Lenapeyok return to Lenapehoking. We are particularly thrilled that the matriarchs and young ones from the Branch of Knowledge are here on their first trip to their homelands, together. The Branch of Knowledge is a collective of Lenape matriarchs who are building power by gathering together and collaborating with accomplices who live in their homelands.

Quyanaqvaa-lli elpeni to all Sovereign Nations, Indigneous and First Nations people and kin from and on these lands.

ABOUT BEING FUTURE BEING’s FOUR BRANCHES

Being Future Being is collaboratively supported by kinstillatory gatherings of experts in four Branches: Making, Scholarship, Knowledge and Action. These are the central organizational and structural partners who guide the relational frameworks and form the foundations, learnings, possibilities and intersections available in this work. They not only inform research, but also form a lateral supportive structure to shape the work and its resonance, steward its values and impact, and share in accountability and action.

BRANCH of MAKING

Includes all the creators, performers, designers, technical and production crew, and other contributors credited for this presentation.

BRANCH of SCHOLARSHIP

Emily Johnson, Yup’ik choreographer and artistic director, finding futures with more than human kin. Joseph M. Pierce, ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ Cherokee Nation citizen, writer, curator, lines on fingers, sun circles waiting, water slipping through.

Karyn Recollet, Urban Cree scholar of a pedagogy of care. Dylan Robinson, xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah) writer and curator, tl’épstexw tel sqwálewel (making deep or low my thoughtfeelings / trying to be patient).

Camille Georgeson-Usher, Coast Salish / Sahtu Dene writer, administrator, and artist using running to feel kinship of spatialities.

BRANCH of KNOWLEDGE

Organized by River Whittle from the Caddo Nation and Delaware Nation of Oklahoma (Lenni Lenape), the Branch of Knowledge is a collective of Lenape matriarchs who are building power by gathering together and collaborating with accomplices who live in their homelands. The Branch of

Knowledge and Catalyst work together in creative guidance and new protocol forms, helping forge pathways for Lenapeyok return to Lenapehoking.

The Branch of Knowledge is constantly growing and in the process of adding members from the six Lenape Nations and is currently:

Rachel Snake (Munsee-Delaware Nation)

Red Day Johnson (Delaware Tribe of Oklahoma)

Elizabeth French (Delaware Nation of Oklahoma)

Andy Jacobs (Delaware Nation at Moraviantown)

Lauryn French (Delaware Nation of Oklahoma)

Yeya Takenha Theresa Johnson (Delaware Nation at Moraviantown)

Trinity Guido (Delaware Nation of Oklahoma)

Andi M. Weber (Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians)

River Whittle (Delaware Nation of Oklahoma)

BRANCH of ACTION: Architecture of the Overflow

Guided by IV Castellanos, they craft replicable, locally responsive, Indigenous-centered actions that encourage collective community self-determination, direct response, support, and action with local land rematriation and protection efforts.

You can support the Architecture of the Overflow by building kinships with local Indigenous-led protection efforts. Volunteer, donate and show up for the Branch of Knowledge and their ongoing efforts for Land Back. Volunteer, donate and show up for 1000People1000Trees, fighting to protect 1000 trees and resilient, community-focused land protection on the Lower East Side of Manahatta.

Quyana

Before this work started, we were different. And now we are here.

Quyana future beings, the joy you are to work with and our orienting our cells to justice. Quyana team Catalyst, moving mountains. Quyana team New York Live Arts, your stewardship through these years. Quyana Fire Trees, Protect Trees, Sound Trees across Lenapehoking, Tongva, Nipmuc, Pocumtuc, Mohican, Wabanaki, and N’daakina land, we are still listening. Quyana my kin in the Branch of Knowledge, your commitment to return. Quyana my dears in the Branch of Scholarship, the future that is here. Quyana starbeings, coming. Quyana my love, IV.

Photo by Skye Schmidt Performers (left to right) Sugar Vendil and Stacy Lynn Smith, with audience members.

FUNDING

Being Future Being is commissioned by BroadStage at Santa Monica College (CA), and is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation and Development Fund Project cocommissioned by Bunnell Street Arts Center (AK); New York Live Arts (NY); Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (OR) and NPN, with contributions from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Additional commissioning and development support is provided by Dance/NYC’s Dance Advancement Fund, made possible by The Howard Gilman Foundation and Ford Foundation; Abrons Arts Center; University of Massachusetts Amherst Fine Arts Center; Portland Ovations; Jacob’s Pillow’s Pillow Lab residency; a Movement Research Residency, funded by the Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund; and New York Live Arts’ Live Feed Residency with funding Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Partners for New Performance.

The creation of Being Future Being is made possible in part with support from Native Arts and Cultures Foundation SHIFT: Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts Award, and New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

New York Live Arts participated in the First Nations Performing Arts 2022 Decolonization Track, and has recently started a Decolonization Assessment and Survey Process with First Nations Performing Arts and Emily Johnson / Catalyst. These efforts are to identify benchmarks, barriers, and opportunities to overcome perceived barriers to decolonization, and to gain understanding as to where we are and where we need to focus as a field regarding the vital decolonization work that must be done.

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ABOUT EMILY JOHNSON / CATALYST

EMILY JOHNSON is an artist who makes body-based work. She is a land and water protector and an organizer for justice, sovereignty and well-being. Emily is a Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Guggenheim, Natiive Arts and Cultures Foundation, and United States Artists Fellow, and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award. She is based in Lenapehoking / New York City. Emily is of the Yup’ik Nation, and since 1998 has created work that considers the experience of sensing and seeing performance. Her dances function as portals and care processions, they engage audienceship within and through space, time, and environment — interacting with a place’s architecture, peoples, history and role in building futures. Emily is trying to make a world where performance is part of life; where performance is an integral part of our connection to each other, our environment, our stories, our past, present and future.

Her choreography and gatherings have been presented across what is

currently called the United States, Canada, and Australia. Her large-scale project, Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars is an all-night outdoor performance gathering taking place amongst 84 community-handmade quilts. It premiered in Lenapehoking (NYC) in 2017, and was presented in Zhigaagoong (Chicago) in 2019. She choreographed the Santa Fe Opera production of Doctor Atomic, directed by Peter Sellars in 2018. Her new work Being Future Being, premiered on Tongva Land in 2022.

Emily’s writing has been published and commissioned by The Open Society University Network’s Center for Human Rights and the Arts, ArtsLink Australia, unMagazine, Dance Research Journal (University of Cambridge Press); SFMOMA; Transmotion Journal, University of Kent; Movement Research Journal; Pew Center for Arts and Heritage; and the compilation Imagined Theaters (Routledge), edited by Daniel Sack.

Emily hosts monthly ceremonial fires on Mannahatta in partnership with Abrons Arts Center and

Karyn Recollet. She was the Pueblo Opera Cultural Council Diplomat at Santa Fe Opera 2018-2020, and a lead organizer of First Nations Dialogues. She was a cocompiler of the documents, Creating New Futures: Guidelines for Ethics and Equity in the Performing Arts and Notes for Equitable Funding, was a member of Creative Time’s inaugural Think Tank, and serves as a working consortium member for First Nations Performing Arts.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

IV CASTELLANOS is a Queer Trans* Bolivian-Indige/ American, and an abstract performance artist and sculptor who creates solo, collaborative, and grouptask vignette performances. They construct/deconstruct all their own objects in their performances, and/or in shared process and practice with their collaborators. In addition, they have a studio practice and create standalone sculptures not meant to be activated by performances.

RAVEN CHACON is a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, performer and installation

artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, collaborator, or with Postcommodity, Chacon has exhibited or performed at Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, REDCAT, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, 18th Biennale of Sydney, and The Kennedy Center. Every year, he teaches 20 students to write string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). He is the recipient of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Music, a United States Artists fellowship in Music, The Creative Capital award in Visual Arts, The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, and the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition. He lives in Albuquerque, NM.

ITOHAN EDOLOYI is a Brooklyn-born lighting designer whose work is deeply rooted in community and culture. Her work aims to continue storytelling in non-traditional ways, crafting meaningful experiences through the lens of light and immersion. Edoloyi is the lead curator for InLight

Collective, an ongoing project surrounding the amplification of BIPOC voices. She has recently joined Kyle Marshall Choreography as its resident lighting designer and is also the resident light design coordinator for The Shed’s annual Open Call Series in NYC. Her work as a curator and light artist has been published by Rosco Spectrum and presented at JACK Arts and La MaMa Galleria. Edoloyi was awarded the 2021 Lilly Award and was the recipient of the 2018 Gilbert V. Hemsley Lighting Internship.

KORINA EMMERICH has built her Brooklyn-based brand, EMME Studio, on the backbone of Expression, Art and Culture, where items are made-to-order in their studio located on occupied Canarsee territories. She is leading the charge to embrace art and design as one, and weaving it into her brand story. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, her colorful work is known to reflect her patrilineal Indigenous heritage from The Coast Salish Territory, Puyallup tribe. Items are made from upcycled, recycled, and all-natural materials giving respect to the life cycle of a garment from creation to

biodegradation. With a strong focus on social and climate justice while speaking out about industry responsibility and accountability: Emmerich works actively to expose and dismantle systems of oppression and challenge colonial ways of thinking.

KEVIN HOLDEN is an artist, composer, and administrative steward for Emily Johnson / Catalyst. They are based on the traditional lands of the Clackamas, Cowlitz, the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde, and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.

HOLLY MITITQUQ NORDLUM

is an Iñupiaq (Inuit) artist who comes from the northern village of Kotzebue, Alaska. Nordlum works in a variety of media, using each to best cast light on Indigenous people. Her tattoo work and traditional markings revitalization effort is based on a 10,000-year-old Inuit history and is a machine-free process that facilitates healing, pride, and celebration from the traumas of colonization and individual experience. She organizes trainings, using traditional patterns in indepth sessions to foster real change for people—in the end,

creating community in the marks left behind. Nordlum speaks publicly about the systems which continue to oppress her people and prevent their thriving. In 2004 she earned a BFA from the University of Alaska. She has received a Time Warner Fellowship with Sundance, an Art Matters grant, an Alaska Humanities Forum grant, an Alaska Native Visionary Award, a Rasmuson Artist Project Grant and Artist Fellowship, NDN Collective Indigenous Artists’ Grant and was part of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Artist Leadership Program.

ASHLEY PIERRE-LOUIS

grew up on the lands of the Tequesta, Miccosukee and Seminole tribes. With education from New World School of the Arts and later from Florida State University, Pierre-Louis began to discover her passion for movement, the human form, and arts administration. Ashley is currently the artistic administrator, dramaturge, and performer with Shamel Pitts’ multidisciplinary performance collective, TRIBE. Ashley is the associate choreographer for the play

Help (2022) by acclaimed poet and playwright Claudia Rankine, directed by Taibi Magar, and commissioned at The Shed in New York. She has premiered the play Thoughts of A Colored Man by playwright Keenan Scott II and director Steve Broadnax III at Syracuse Stage and Baltimore Center Stage. She has performed for the premiere of Donna Uchizono’s work March

Under an Empty reign at The Joyce: NY Quadrille Festival, has been one of GALLIM’s Moving Women spring artistin-residence and she has also been a part of Alvin Ailey’s inaugural Choreography Unlocked Festival under the direction of Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush Women, and Robert Battle. Ashley has attended the School at Jacob’s Pillow, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, as well as Gaga intensives in Tel Aviv and New York.

RAPHAEL REGAN is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. He received his MFA in Costume Design and Production from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). Costume

Productions), The Heart Stays (feature film), Collective Noun (Corkscrew Theatre Festival), King Lear, Apartment 3A, Romeo & Juliet, Race, Escape from Happiness (Stella Adler), Taiga in the Berkshires, In search of (Williamstown Theatre Festival) Little Shop of Horrors, Pippin, 9 to 5 (Highlands Playhouse). Assistant Costume Design: A Walk on the Moon (George Street Playhouse), Harmony (NYTF), A Sherlock Carol (New World Stages), Anastasia (Second National Tour), Fandango for Butterflies (La Mama), Mlima’s Tale (Westport Playhouse), Skeleton Crew (Westport Playhouse).

JASMINE SHORTY is a dancer and visual artist from, and based in, New Mexico. She is a member of the Navajo Nation. She was a performer and company member of Meow Wolf, Santa Fe’s celebrated immersive and interactive arts collective, from 2019–20. In 2018, she performed as a movement soloist in the Santa Fe Opera’s production of Doctor Atomic, choreographed by Emily Johnson and directed by Peter Sellars.

JOSEPH SILOVSKY / SILOVSKY STUDIOS has been constructing props, sets, and

mechanical devices for the downtown performance art world since it was founded in 2015. They have worked with a variety of groups, including Emily Johnson / Catalyst, Palissimo, Radiohole, The Wooster Group, AIM, Richard Maxwell, The Builders Association, and others. Latest projects include the set for AIM’s Mozart Project, the motorized ring/ disc sculpture for Palissimo’s LUX PHANTASMATIS, the set for the Wooster Group’s The Mother, and the secret sound thankyous inside the donation cowboy boot for Gideon Irving’s Cowboy Tour.

STACY LYNN SMITH is a neurodivergent, mixed race/ Black dance/performance artist with an extensive background in butoh, improvisational forms and experimental theater, creating work through a unique lens of “Other”. Smith was recently awarded a Djerassi Residency to further develop their abstract memoir, RECKONING, a film being made in collaboration with Alex Romania. Smith enjoys collaborating as performer/ improviser, director and choreographer across disciplines and genres with

an array of talented artists including: DeForrest Brown Jr., Anna Homler, Karen Bernard, Saints of an Unnamed Country, Thaddeus O’Neil, Josephine Decker, Jill Sigman/thinkdance, Kathy Westwater and Jasmine Hearn. Member of artist/ activist cohort, Body Politic. Principal butoh dancer with Vangeline Theater from 20082017. Main muse/collaborator of writer/director Michael Freeman from 2010-2016. Selected by Eva Yaa Asantewaa as part of the curatorial board for Black Womxn Summit. Smith is a Green Circle Keeper at Hidden Water, an organization working to heal those affected by childhood sexual abuse.

CHLOE ALEXANDRA

THOMPSON is a Cree, Canadian interdisciplinary artist and sound designer. Her work engages tactics of material minimalism to create site-specific installations that sculpt droning, maximalist experiences out of space and sound. Thompson’s work, often utilizing multi-channel audio, HDLA’s or wave field synthesis installation, has previously been presented by MUTEK Montreal, Send + Receive Festival, and Quiet City (Canada); Hellerau (DE); British

Council Arts and Somerset House for Amplify DIA (UK and Canada); Qubit (NY); On the Boards, and Wayward Concert Series (WA); Subharmonic: Sonic Arts Symposium - PICA, and Yale Union (OR), among many others. Thompson has participated in residencies at Pioneer Works (NY);

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AOS residency (UK), and the Amplify residency in collaboration with Somerset House and MUTEK (UK).

MAGGIE THOMPSON

was born and raised in Minneapolis, MN. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2013. As a textile artist and designer she derives her inspiration from the history of her Ojibwe heritage, exploring family history as well as themes and subject matter of the broader Native American experience. Thompson’s work calls attention to its materiality pushing the viewer’s traditional understanding of textiles. She explores materials in her work by incorporating multimedia elements such as photographs, beer caps and 3D-printed objects. In addition to her fine arts practice, Thompson

runs a knitwear business known as Makwa Studio and is also an emerging curator of contemporary Native art, and has worked on curating special exhibits for Two Rivers Gallery, the McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

SUGAR VENDIL is a composer, pianist, and interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking, known as Brooklyn. She started her artistic life as a classical pianist, and after spending nearly a decade searching for her own voice, her practice evolved into performances that integrate sound, movement, and unconventional approaches to the piano. She writes and performs her own solo music for piano and electronics and has a keyboard/synth duo, Vanity Project, with composer Trevor Gureckis. Vendil is a proud second generation Filipinx American. Vendil was awarded a 2021 MAP Fund grant and a 2022 National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund grant for her multimedia childhood memoir “Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia.” She was recently commissioned to compose music for “GATHER” at Lincoln Center by Amanda

Phingbodhipakkiya, whose “I Still Believe in Our City” campaign reached millions of New Yorkers. Vendil’s forthcoming album, “May We Know Our Own Strength,” is coming out on 11/11/22 on Gold Bolus Recordings. sugarvendil.bandcamp.com.

RIVER WHITTLE is a twospirit Caddo, Lenape, and white artist, youth mentor, and organizer. River aims to uplift the well-being of all Indigenous people with their work. She is learning to become a shell worker, metal worker, and potter, and is an experienced photographer. You can reach River through their instagram @natanehriver or via email at miarw96@ gmail.com.

GEORGE LUGG is a settler based in Yaanga, colonially known as Los Angeles. He is a producer, curator and consultant who has been working in the field of contemporary dance and performance for more than 30 years, and since 2018 has served as a producer and manager for Emily Johnson / Catalyst. He is currently on the faculty of the California Institute of Arts School of Theater, and a consulting

producer for CalArts’ Center for New Performance, where he has worked on include Daniel Alexander Jones’ Altar no. 1 and Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol’s El Camino Donde Nosotros Lloramosm (The Road Where We Weep), among others. Additional producing credits include Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Space (2019) and Come On In (2020). He was associate director of REDCAT in Los Angeles for a decade, twice served as Lead Program Consultant in the Performing Arts for the Creative Capital Foundation (2012, 2020), was a Hub Site Representative for the National Dance Project, and on the U.S. curatorial team for the National Performance Network’s Performing Arts Asia, and Performing Americas Projects.

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New York Live Arts is deeply grateful to all the individuals listed below for their vital gifts to New York Live Arts over the last year:

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Artistic Leadership

Bill T. Jones Artistic Director

Janet Wong Associate Artistic Director

Programming, Producing & Engagement

Kyle Maude

Producing Director

Hannah Emerson Producer

Jessica Prince Producing Associate

Production Hillery Makatura Director of Production Leo Janks Lighting Manager

Chanel Pinnock Production Manager Megan Dechaine Production Stage Manager

Creative Director

Bjorn G. Amelan Community Engagement & Education

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Front of House Assistant Liliana Dirks-Goodman Graphic Designer Pentagram

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Executive Leadership

Kim Cullen Executive Director & CEO

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Zykeya McLeod Development Assistant Finance Nupur Dey Director of Finance Manathus Dey Finance Associate Operations

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Board of Directors

Stephen Hendel Co-Chair

Richard H. Levy Co-Chair

Helen Haje

Vice Chair

Slobodan RandjeloviĆ

Vice Chair

Alan Marks

Treasurer Alanna Rutherford Secretary

Bill T. Jones

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Kim Cullen

Chief Executive Officer Ex-Officio

Bjorn Amelan

Willard Ahdritz

Sarah Arison

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LaToya Ruby Frazier

Charla Jones

Colleen Keegan

Darnell L. Moore Amy Newman Randy Polumbo

Ellen M. Poss Matthew Putman

Jane Bovingdon Semel Ruby Shang

Catharine R. Stimpson

Diana Wege Board Emeritus

Derek Brown

Terence Dougherty

Eleanor Friedman

Advisory Council

Margaret Doyle, Chair

Alberta Arthurs

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Jenette Kahn

Susan Micari

Alton Murray

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