Branch of Scholarship

The Branch of Scholarship is how we continually reworld. The Branch of Scholarship is Emily Johnson who belongs to the Yup'ik Nation, Joseph M. Pierce, citizen of the Cherokee Nation; Karyyn Recollet, urban diasporic Cree; Dylan Robinson who is Stó:lō/Skwah; and Camile Usher, Coast Salish / Sahtu Dene. Together we make new knowledge. We decipher and create protocol forms and ways of collaborating with more-than-human kin including fire and trees. We share our work via conversation series', Umyuangvigkaq, writings, and scores. Our thinking and corresponding together and the dance making merge continually.

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

Kai 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 thought-feelings / trying to be patient)

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

Office, Minneapolis, MN, US612.597.7400emily@catalystdance.com

Emily Johnson / Catalyst is based on Mannahatta in Lenapehoking. We work to pay respect to Lenape homeland, people and ancestors past, present, and future by organizing with communities from the Lenape diaspora to build pathways for Lenapeyok return. We have been taught to name Lenape Nations and say cama’i to our relatives from Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, OK; Delaware Nation of Oklahoma in Anadarko, OK; Stockbridge-Munsee and Mohican Community in Wisconsin; Moravian Delaware of the Thames in Ontario, Canada; Munsee-Delaware Nation at Munceytown in Ontario, Canada; Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario, Canada. 

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. 

Quyanaqvaa-lli elpeni to all Sovereign Nations, Indigenous and First Nations people who live in relation to and from Lenapehoking and upon whose lands we work and tour.

Cart (0)