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Rosy Simas
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Rosy Simas by Tim Rummelhoff Courtesy McKnight Fellowships for Choreographers, 2016
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Rosy Marie Simas
April 4, 1967 |
| Occupation | transdisiplinary artist, choreographer, performer, artistic director |
| Years active | 1992-present |
| Current group | Rosy Simas Danse |
| Former groups | Shattering Feet |
| Dances | she who lives on the road to war, yödoishëndahgwa’geh (a place for rest), WEave:Here, Weave, Within Our Skin, Transfuse, Skin(s), We Wait In The Darkness, Bloodlines, Threshold, i want it to be raining and the window to be open, Birds, Have Gun Will Shoot, Moments In Between, Four Years Later |
Rosy Marie Simas is a Seneca multidisciplinary artist and choreographer in the United States.
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Identity
Rosy Marie Simas is a Haudenosaunee Heron Clan woman and an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians.
Career
Simas is a dance and transdisciplinary artist and the founder and artistic director of Rosy Simas Danse.
As a choreographer, Simas creates work for stage and installation that unifies movement, time-based media, sound, and sculpture. Since 2012 she has collaborated with French composer François Richomme. Their collaborative works include: We Wait In The Darkness (2014); Skin(s) (2012); Weave (2019); Threshold, a film with photographer Douglas Beasley (2013); and WEave:HERE with Heid E. Erdrich (2019).
In addition, Simas has collaborated with Deborah Jinza Thayer. In 2016, Simas and Jinza Thayer performed together in 14 U.S. cities, and finished their tour with a performance at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Exhibitions
Solo
- We Wait In The Darkness, All My Relations Art, Minneapolis, MN. (2014)
- All My Relations: A Seneca History, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian (2015)
- Blood Lines: Images of Attachments, Seneca Iroquois National Museum, Salamanca, NY. (2020)
- she who lives on the road to war, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN. (2020)
Group
- SKEW LINES: a residency and installations, Heid E. Erdrich and Rosy Simas. SOO Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN. (2019)
- Waasamoo-Beshizi (Power-Lines), Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND. (2019)
- Identity/Identify, Iroquois Indian Museum, Howes Cave, NY. (2020-2021)
Honors and awards
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship (2013)
- Twin Cities City Pages Artist of the Year (2014)
- Sage Award for Film and Set Design (2014)
- Guggenheim Creative Arts Fellowship for Choreography (2015)
- McKnight Fellowship for Choreography (2016)
- First People's Fund Artists in Business Leadership Fellow (2016)
- Joyce Award from the Joyce Foundation with the Ordway Center of the Performing Arts (2018)
- Dance/USA Artist Fellowships (2019)
- Twin Cities City Pages Best Choreographer (2020)
- McKnight Fellowship for Choreography (2022)
- United States Artists Artist Fellowship (2022)
- Doris Duke Artist Award (2023)
