Rosy Simas

Rosy Simas is Haudenosaunee. She is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians.[1] Simas is a transdisciplinary artist [2] and the Founder and Artistic Director of Rosy Simas Danse. [3]

Rosy Simas
Rosy Simas by Tim Rummelhoff Courtesy McKnight Fellowships for Choreographers, 2016
Born
Rose Marie Simas

(1967-04-04) April 4, 1967
Jacksonville, Florida
Occupationtransdisiplinary artist, choreographer, performer, artistic director
Years active1992-present
Current groupRosy Simas Danse
Former groupsShattering Feet
DancesWEave: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
WebsiteOfficial Site rosysimas.com

Choreography

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) (2016) [6];Weave (2019);[7] Threshold a film with photographer Douglas Beasley (2013);[8] and WE:ave HERE with Heid E. Erdrich (2019).[9]

Exhibitions

Solo
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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]

Publications
  • Simas, Rosy (2016) My Making of We Wait in the Darkness. Dance Research Journal, vol. 48 no. 1.[26]
  • 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.[27]
  • Simas, Rosy and Morgan, Christopher K. (2019) Longer Scores: Native Choreographic Turns, Curatorial Visions, and Community Engagement[28]
  • Simas, Rosy and Mitchell, Sam (2019) Playing Indian, between Idealization and Vilification: Seems You have to Play Indian to be Indian. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43 no.4.[29]

References
  1. "Award-winning Seneca choreographer Rosy Simas creating dance performance "Weave"". Indian Country Today. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  2. "Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Rosy Simas". Arena Dances on Buzzsprout. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  3. "MNIBA Business Directory". MNIBA Website. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  4. https://mancc.org/artists/rosy-simas/
  5. "Tragic history informs dance by Rosy Simas", Star Tribune, retrieved 3 July 2014
  6. "Rosy Simas delivers an intense and ritualistic 'Skin(s)' at Intermedia Arts", Star Tribune, retrieved 24 October 2016
  7. "Rosy Simas, Seneca Choreographer, developing dancer performance, "Weave," to honor the Native world". First American Art Magazine. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  8. "Dance spotlight: Rosy Simas", Star Tribune, retrieved 8 September 2012
  9. "With a theme of 'resilience,' Northern Spark flies into Rondo and Franklin Av. neighborhoods". Star Tribune. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  10. "Movers & makers, 17 more bright spots in the Twin cities arts scene", Star Tribune, retrieved 29 December 2014
  11. "Final Weeks of 'All My Relations: A Seneca History' Exhibit at Mitchell Museum of the American Indian", Patch, retrieved 20 August 2015
  12. "Rosy Simas' Exhibition Opening at the SINM", Enchanted Mountains Cattaraugus County, retrieved 5 December 2019
  13. "She Who Lives on the Road to War", Weisman Art Museum Website, retrieved 4 October 2019
  14. "SKEW LINES - a residency and installations by Heid E. Erdrich and Rosy Simas", Soo Visual Arts Center Website, retrieved 4 May 2019
  15. "Waasamoo-Beshizi", Plains Art Museum Website, retrieved 5 February 2019
  16. "2021 FEATURE EXHIBITION Identity/Identify", Iroquois Indian Museum Website, retrieved 30 September 2020
  17. Native Arts and Cultures Foundation 2013 Fellows, retrieved 4 December 2012
  18. "Artists of the Year: The Best Visual Artists, Performers, and More from 2014", City Pages, retrieved 23 December 2014
  19. "Nine artists honored with SAGE Awards for Dance". Star Tribune. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  20. "Native artist Rosy Simas pulls various threads to build a bold new dance work, 'Weave'". Star Tribune. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  21. "2016 McKnight Fellows in Visual and Performing Arts Announced", Philanthropy Digest, retrieved 8 June 2016
  22. "Beyond The Dance", First Peoples Fund Fellows Stories, retrieved 1 March 2016
  23. "2018 Joyce Awards Winners", The Joyce Foundation, retrieved 17 January 2018
  24. "Dance/USA's New Fellowship Awards Over $1 Million to Socially Conscious Artists", Dance Magazine, retrieved 1 August 2019
  25. "Best Choreographer", City Pages, retrieved 29 July 2020
  26. Simas, Rosy. "My Making of We Wait in the Darkness." Dance Research Journal, vol. 48 no. 1, 2016, p. 29-32. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/617347.
  27. "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.
  28. "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.
  29. Simas, Rosy and Mitchell, Sam (2019) Playing Indian, between Idealization and Vilification: Seems You have to Play Indian to be Indian. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Special Issue: Fraud in Native American Communities Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, vol. 43 no.4, 2019, p. 133–140.

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