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Being Future Being: Inside/Outward at New York Live Arts


  • New York Live Arts 219 West 19th Street New York, NY, 10011 United States (map)

October 20-22, 7:30 pm

Stay Late Discussion on October 21

Tickets start at $15 / $25, General seating

Being Future Being: Inside/Outward will be presented at New York Live Arts Theater (219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011) from Thursday, October 20th through Saturday, October 22nd at 7:30 pm. On October 21st there will be a Stay Late post-show conversation with individuals from the Branch of Knowledge, a collective of Lenape matriarchs who are building power by gathering together and collaborating with accomplices who live in their homelands. Audiences are asked to engage their present selves with what will become our futures. Housed within the theater and ensconced amidst Quilt Beings, performers, and multiple portal sites, we are urged beyond the walls, beyond the architecture, beyond stasis

About Being Future Being:

Celebrated for a distinguished body of dance works, Emily Johnson unites audiences in a shared experience of movement, place, history, collective action, and the continuance of Indigenous cultural practices and perspectives. Her newest dance performance and process, Being Future Being, delves into the power of creation, with new stories that seek to sustain a world that must begin again. Co-commissioned by New York Live Arts and featuring an original score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon, Being Future Being conjures present joy as it seeks to build a radically-just and Indigenized future, one we can live in now and foster for generations to come.

Being Future Being: Inside / Outward
Tickets & Info

Earlier Event: October 15
Being Future Being: Land/Celestial in Lenaphoking
Later Event: November 15
Kinstillatory Mappings In Light And Dark Matter: SJ Norman and Razelle Benally
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.

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