WINGSPAN 5'2"

(2006)

WINGSPAN 5’2’’
IS A DANCE AND A FILM.

It is time and repetition, effort and adaptation amidst mountaintops, lakes, intersections, and a burned out forest. Requiring only a little trespassing, Wingspan 5'2'' celebrates the physicality and resolve required to remain engaged in the ever-changing landscapes of our world and personal histories.

 

Directed and Choreographed by
Emily Johnson

Cinematography by
Emily Johnson, James Everest, and Randy Kramer

Edited by
Randy Kramer 

Performed by
Natasha Hassett

Screenings:

Cinema Revolution Society's Minnesota Dance Film Festival (2010)
Chicago Cultural Center's Dance for the Camera Festival (2008)
Macalester College's Rolling Footage Film Festival (2007)
Earth Fusion Festival, Minneapolis (2007)
Links Hall, Chicago (2007)
Dance Theater Workshop's Captured Video-Dance Series (2007)
The Walker Art Center's Women with Vision Film Series (2006)
capture! Dance Film Series, Minneapolis (2006) 

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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