Rosy Simas is a Haudenosaunee artist. She is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians.[1] Simas is a dance and transdisciplinary artist[2] and the Founder and Artistic Director of Rosy Simas Danse.[3]
Rosy Simas | |
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 Rosy Simas by Tim Rummelhoff Courtesy McKnight Fellowships for Choreographers, 2016 | |
| Born | Rose Marie Simas April 4, 1967 |
| Occupation(s) | 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 | Official Site rosysimas.com |
Choreography edit
Rosy 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]
Exhibitions edit
Solo edit
- We Wait In The Darkness, All My Relations Art, Minneapolis, MN. (2014)[10]
- All My Relations: A Seneca History, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian (2015)[11]
- Blood Lines: Images of Attachments, Seneca Iroquois National Museum, Salamanca, NY. (2020)[12]
- she who lives on the road to war, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN. (2020)[13]
Group edit
- SKEW LINES: a residency and installations, Heid E. Erdrich and Rosy Simas. SOO Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN. (2019)[14]
- Waasamoo-Beshizi (Power-Lines), Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND. (2019)[15]
- Identity/Identify, Iroquois Indian Museum, Howes Cave, NY. (2020-2021)[16]
Honors and awards edit
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship (2013)[17]
- Twin Cities City Pages Artist of the Year (2014)[18]
- Sage Award for Film and Set Design (2014)[19]
- Guggenheim Creative Arts Fellowship for Choreography (2015)[20]
- McKnight Fellowship for Choreography (2016)[21]
- First People's Fund Artists in Business Leadership Fellow (2016)[22]
- Joyce Award from the Joyce Foundation with the Ordway Center of the Performing Arts (2018)[23]
- Dance/USA Artist Fellowships (2019)[24]
- Twin Cities City Pages Best Choreographer (2020)[25]
- McKnight Fellowship for Choreography (2022)[26]
- United States Artists Artist Fellowship (2022)[27]
- Doris Duke Artist Award (2023)
Publications edit
- Simas, Rosy (2016). "My Making of We Wait in the Darkness". Dance Research Journal. 48 (1): 29–32. doi:10.1017/S0149767716000073. S2CID 192540281. Project MUSE 617347.
- 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.[28]
- Simas, Rosy and Morgan, Christopher K. (2019) Longer Scores: Native Choreographic Turns, Curatorial Visions, and Community Engagement[29]
- Simas, Rosy; Mitchell, Sam Aros (October 2019). "Playing Indian, between Idealization and Vilification: Seems You have to Play Indian to be Indian". American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 43 (4): 133–140. doi:10.17953/aicrj.43.4.simas-mitchell. S2CID 242885536.
- Simas, Rosy (2022) The body is an archive: Collective memory; ancestral knowledge, culture and history. Music, Dance and the Archive. Edited by Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick and Jakelin Troy[30]
References edit
- ^ "Award-winning Seneca choreographer Rosy Simas creating dance performance "Weave"". Indian Country Today. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ "Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Rosy Simas". Arena Dances on Buzzsprout. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
- ^ "MNIBA Business Directory". MNIBA Website. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ^ "Rosy Simas | Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography".
- ^ "Tragic history informs dance by Rosy Simas", Star Tribune, retrieved 3 July 2014
- ^ "Rosy Simas delivers an intense and ritualistic 'Skin(s)' at Intermedia Arts", Star Tribune, retrieved 24 October 2016
- ^ "Rosy Simas, Seneca Choreographer, developing dancer performance, "Weave," to honor the Native world". First American Art Magazine. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
- ^ "Dance spotlight: Rosy Simas", Star Tribune, retrieved 8 September 2012
- ^ "With a theme of 'resilience,' Northern Spark flies into Rondo and Franklin Av. neighborhoods". Star Tribune. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ "Movers & makers, 17 more bright spots in the Twin cities arts scene", Star Tribune, retrieved 29 December 2014
- ^ "Final Weeks of 'All My Relations: A Seneca History' Exhibit at Mitchell Museum of the American Indian", Patch, 20 August 2015, retrieved 20 August 2015
- ^ "Rosy Simas' Exhibition Opening at the SINM", Enchanted Mountains Cattaraugus County, retrieved 5 December 2019
- ^ "She Who Lives on the Road to War", Weisman Art Museum Website, retrieved 4 October 2019
- ^ "SKEW LINES - a residency and installations by Heid E. Erdrich and Rosy Simas", Soo Visual Arts Center Website, retrieved 4 May 2019
- ^ "Waasamoo-Beshizi", Plains Art Museum Website, retrieved 5 February 2019
- ^ "2021 FEATURE EXHIBITION Identity/Identify", Iroquois Indian Museum Website, retrieved 30 September 2020
- ^ Native Arts and Cultures Foundation 2013 Fellows, 4 December 2012, retrieved 4 December 2012
- ^ "Artists of the Year: The Best Visual Artists, Performers, and More from 2014", City Pages, retrieved 23 December 2014
- ^ "Nine artists honored with SAGE Awards for Dance". Star Tribune. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ "Native artist Rosy Simas pulls various threads to build a bold new dance work, 'Weave'". Star Tribune. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- ^ "2016 McKnight Fellows in Visual and Performing Arts Announced", Philanthropy Digest, retrieved 8 June 2016
- ^ "Beyond The Dance", First Peoples Fund Fellows Stories, March 2016, retrieved 1 March 2016
- ^ "2018 Joyce Awards Winners", The Joyce Foundation, retrieved 17 January 2018
- ^ "Dance/USA's New Fellowship Awards Over $1 Million to Socially Conscious Artists", Dance Magazine, August 2019, retrieved 1 August 2019
- ^ "Best Choreographer", City Pages, retrieved 29 July 2020
- ^ "2022 McKnight Fellows", McKnight Fellowhips in Dance, June 2022, retrieved 7 February 2023
- ^ 2022 United States Artists Unbound, retrieved 7 February 2023
- ^ "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. Retrieved 30 October 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. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
- ^ Simas, Rosy (2022) The body is an archive: Collective memory; ancestral knowledge, culture and history. Music, Dance and the Archive. Edited by Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick and Jakelin Troy, 2022