Artist-in-Residence: Moira Villiard
Through public art collaborations across Minnesota, Moira Villiard is a multidisciplinary artist who uses art to uplift underrepresented narratives, explore the nuance of society’s historical community intersections, and promote community healing spaces.
‘Waiting for Beds’ Art Exhibition Opening Reception & Artist Talk
Waiting for Beds Art Exhibit Opening Reception May 3rd, 2024 | Doors at 4pm | Artist Talk 6pm | @ Rosy Simas Danse, studio #240 in the Northrup King Building
“she who lives on the road to war” at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center
Rosy Simas Danse returns to Hawaii bringing she who lives on the road to war to the stage of Maui Arts & Cultural Center. The piece has been in development by choreographer Rosy Simas and company since 2019.
Artist-in-Residence: Yoni Light
Yoni Light is a captivating and multifaceted performing artist known for seamlessly weaving together the realms of dance, film, and music to craft immersive storytelling experiences.
Artist-in-Residence: Sarah Abdel-Jelil
Sarah Abdel-Jelil is a Mauritanian-American filmmaker, dancer, and choreographer. As a dancer/movement artist, her artwork centers the body as a primary way of knowing and experiencing the world. Inspired by her nomadic upbringing, growing up in eight different countries in a multicultural, interfaith household, Sarah explores the relational nature of home, movement, and liminal spaces. https://www.sarahabdeljelil.com
Artist-in-Residence: Conie Borchardt
Conie Borchardt is a Mixed Asian Public Heart Artist and Cultural Catalyst, a listener and vibration holding space for truth, pain, and delight while inviting expression in sound, movement, and color within themselves and in others.
Artist-in-Residence: Sam Aros-Mitchell
Sam Aros-Mitchell is an enrolled member with the Texas Band of Yaqui Indians. As an art-maker, dancer, and scholar, his work spans the disciplines of performance, sound/light/scenic design, choreography, and embodied writing.
‘Stubborn Subversions’
Sunday, November 2-5 pm
Poetry & Screenprinting with RSD visiting artist-in-residence Demian DinéYazhi’ (Naasht’ézhí Tábąąhá & Tódích’íí’nii) followed by a special conversation on current events with 2023 RSD artist-in-residence choreographer Leila Awadallah.
Catering by Powwow Grounds.
Open to the public.
ASL interpretation.
Rosy Simas Danse, 1500 Jackson Street NE, Studio 240, Minneapolis. in the Northrup King Building
NAKA Dance Theater
Founded in 2001 by co-directors Debby Kajiyama & José Ome Navarrete Mazat. NAKA Dance Theater creates experimental performance works using dance, storytelling, multimedia installations and site-specific environments. NAKA builds partnerships with communities, engages people's histories and folklore and expresses experiences through accessible performances that challenge the viewer to think critically about social justice issues.
artist in residence: Lela Pierce
Lela Pierce (she/they) is a Black multiracial artist, born and raised in rural MniSota Makoce - the ancestral and current homeland of the Dakota and Anishinaabe people. Lela has danced extensively with Ananya Dance Theatre as a founding member (2004-2016) as well as Rosy Simas Danse and Pramila Vasudevan of Anichha Arts (both 2015-present).
#MMIP Awareness Event
Sat, May 6th, 2-6 pm
LIVE Screenprinting 2-4 pm,
Poetry & Performance 4-6 pm.
Co-facilitated by Demian DinéYazhi'
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Rosy Simas Danse, Northrup King Building, 1500 Jackson Street NE, Studio 240.
artist in residence: Arneshia Williams
Arneshia Williams is a weaver and mover who co-builds to create cultures of belonging from community to community. She views her artwork as snapshots into the social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of life. She is interested in dance, vocality, sound, and media, and is particularly invested in Black American and African Diasporic forms of expression.
artist in residence: Valerie Oliveiro
Valerie Oliveiro is a dance and performance maker based in the Twin Cities and from Singapore. While they currently engage movement as their primary motor for expression, they also engage in other expressions, such as design, writing, drawing, and photography, as generative, complexly relational proposals.
artist in residence - Taja Will
Taja Will (they/them) is a queer, chronically ill, Latinx (Chilean) adoptee, performer, choreographer, somatic therapist, and Healing Justice practitioner based in Mni Sota Makoce, on the ancestral lands of the Dakota and Anishinaabe.
artist in residence - Leila Awadallah ليلى عوض الله
Leila Awadallah ليلى عوض الله (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker based in Minneapolis and partly in Beirut, Lebanon. Dancing with a body of Palestinian, Arab-American, Sicilian, and diasporic Mediterranean ways and waves.
nouf saleh Our New Managing Director
nouf saleh (she/her) is an artist, cultural worker, organizer, and arts administrator who has been studying and working at the intersections of arts and culture for over ten years. Most recently, she was an artist assistant at Dyani White Hawk’s studio and co-founder and member of Wild Path Collective. She is also part of the Public Functionary studio artists.
Star Tribune: Stage & Arts
"The award is, for me, a real recognition of my work cumulatively over the last 30 years," said Simas, 55, founder of Rosy Simas Danse.
StarTribune Best of 2022
StarTribune Variety Friday December 30, 2022. The Best of 2022. Rosy Simas’ she who lives on the road to war.
Dance Magazine Article: Rosy Simas on Using Dance to Unite Identity, Ancestry & Culture
Rosy Simas on Using Dance to Unite Identity, Ancestry & Culture