From 30 November to 20 December 2023, you can participate in online meetings on the Zoom platform with representatives of indigenous cultures from the Northwest Coast of Canada.
A lecture “Contemporarily Traditional / Traditionally Contemporary: Dramaturgical Process of the Ridicule Dance and assertions of dancing Sovereignty in the work of the Git Hayetsk Dancers” by Mique’l Dangeli, PhD will be held on 30 November 2023 on the Zoom platform.
The lecture examines the dramaturgical process of the Git Hayetsk dancers, a First Nations dance group based in the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples known by its colonial name Vancouver BC.
Lead in partnership by Mique’l Dangeli, PhD (Tsimshian Nation) and artist and carver Mike Dangeli (Nisga’a First Nations), the members of the Git Hayetsk Dancers are from many Nations along what is now the Northern Northwest Coast of British Columbia and the Southeast Alaska. The Git Hayetsk dancers specialise in the ancient mask dances of their people and creation of new songs and dances. Mique’l is a dancer and choreography and Mike is mask and regalia maker. Through their collaborative process the Dangeli’s work to ensure the history that they are living now will be embodied and passed down in the way of their ancestors. The case study for this lecture is their “Ridicule Dance” created to challenge and defy the ways in which federal government for the ways in which its policies around Indian Status and citizenship marginalize and oppress First Nations people today.