Native Skywatchers - Kapemni Dance Animation
Celestial Performance Design, Bell Museum, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
"Native Skywatchers - Kapemni Dance Animation Bell Museum", Photo collage by A. Lee, 2023
"Native Skywatchers Kapemni: As Is It Above; It Is Below ”
At the Doorway of Light, Sound, Movement, and Shadow
Join us for a storytelling motion media dance performance featuring D(L)akota and Ojibwe Indigenous astronomy with immersive, experiential, interactive animation projection art, and sky and Earth soundscapes. The performance explores the D(L)akota teaching Kapemni, which translates “As it is above, it is below” (trans. Albert White Hat Sr.).
Students in the Dance Program at South High School tell the story through movement that “we come from the stars” and perform their interpretation of the Kapemni concept, as shared by Annette S. Lee, in this collaborative piece.
This project is a collaboration between Native Skywatchers and South High School’s Dance Program and its All Nations Program, supporting students to lead Native narrative change. Dance team led by Instructor Nancy Nair, Animation and Sound Design by Annette S. Lee.
This is an in-person performance at the Bell Museum.
Saturday, May 20, 2023: start time 2 - 2:30 pm ct and start time 3 - 3:30 pm ct
Click here for event poster. Contact – nativeskywatchers@gmail.com or phone 612-314-9717
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State
Arts Board (MSAB), thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
P: (612)-314-9717 Contact Us
nativeskywatchers@gmail.com Art website visit
annettelee.com
Acknowledgement: Native Skywatchers is located on the traditional and treaty land of the Dakota people, who along with the Ojibwe are the Indigenous peoples of this land, Mni Sota Makoce or Minnesota.