SHORE

(2014)

SHORE IS A MULTI-DAY PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION OF FOUR EQUAL PARTS: DANCE, STORY, VOLUNTEERISM, AND FEAST.

It is a celebration of the places where we meet and merge - land and water, performer and audience, art and community, past, present, and future. 

 

"I embrace SHORE’s humble directives—take action;
listen to one another’s stories; open your heart to dreams, dance, and song; feed one another; come together and celebrate—practice being in community." 
- Eleanor Savage

 
 

SHORE is the third in a trilogy of works that began with the New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" award-winning The Thank-you Bar and continued with the ten-city tour of Niicugni. 

SHORE expands beyond the theater into the world. Over the course of a week, SHORE includes four equal parts: COMMUNITY ACTION (volunteerism) in partnership with community organizations; STORY (a curated reading); PERFORMANCE that begins outdoors and moves into a theater; and a festive, culminating potluck FEAST to which participants bring the stories and recipes of the dishes they bring to share.

RELATED LINKS

SHORE Essays
 

PHOTOS:

SHORE in Dᶻidᶻelaľic̆/Dkhw'Duw'Absh (Seattle)

SHORE in Lenapehoking (NYC)

SHORE in Yelamu (San Francisco)

SHORE Minneapolis: Story

SHORE Minneapolis: Community Action

SHORE Minneapolis: Performance

SHORE: Minneapolis Feast

 

ZINES:

SHORE: Minneapolis Zine

SHORE in Lenapehoking Zine

SHORE in Lenapehoking Insert

SHORE in Narrm Zine

 

 
 

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Concept, Choreography, Writing by
EMILY JOHNSON

Directed by
AIN GORDON

Performed by
ARETHA AOKI, EMILY JOHNSON, KRISTA LANGBERG, NONA MARIE INVIE, JULIA BITHER,  THE SHORE CHOIR & LARGE CAST

Lighting Design by
HEIDI ECKWALL

Costumes by
ANGIE VO

Scenic Design by
EMILY JOHNSON, AIN GORDON,
JAMES EVEREST, HEIDI ECKWALL

Choir Lead
MARGOT BASSETT

Sound Engineer
JOEL DUNDORF

Research and Special Projects
JULIA BITHER
 
Creative Producer/ Manager
MEREDITH BOGGIA

Press Representative
JANET STAPLETON

Original soundscore composed by James Everest and Nona Marie Invie with Fletcher Barnhill
 

 
 
 

Support

SHORE is A Project of Creative Capital and Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Inc. SHORE is made with support from The McKnight Foundation; a Joyce Award; Carolyn Foundation; and MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. SHORE has been supported by residencies at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, the Robert Rauschenberg Residency, and Headlands Center for the Arts. Research for SHORE is supported by a grant from the Doris Duke Foundation to Build Demand for the Arts. SHORE is supported by a National Dance Project Touring Award from the New England Foundation for the Arts.  

 

 
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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