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La MaMa in New York City presented the Urban Indigenous Arts & Culture Symposium performance of DON’T FEED THE INDIANS – A DIVINE COMEDY PAGEANT livestreaming from CultureHub on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday November 14.
Murielle Borst Tarrant spoke about creating this pieces as a guest of TheatreNow (Season Three). Here is the transcript of our discussion: Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Interview with Murielle Borst Tarrant.
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: http://youtu.be/41Vj9u0Ig-M
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La MaMa Presents Urban Indigenous Arts & Culture Symposium
“Don’t Feed the Indians” –
A Divine Comedy Pageant
Friday November 14, 2014 at 1:00 PM
To see this performance Live on your computer
CLICK HERE: www.culturehub.org/live
Please stay tuned afterward with a discussion with the cast
Watch out when Indian show business meets the Doctrine of Discovery. A raucous play and political satire loosely based on Dante’s Inferno. A comedic look at the negative marginalization of Indigenous Peoples and the appropriation of Indigenous cultural and intellectual property. See what happens when the Indians push back.
Directed and written by:
Murielle Borst-Tarrant (Kuna/Rappahannock), Director “Safe Harbors”
Indigenous Arts/Theater Collective at La MaMa Theatre.
Cast:
Danielle Soames
(Mohawk Kahnawake)
Nic Billey
(Choctaw, Creek, Delaware)
Elizabeth Rolston
(Cherokee, Chippewa)
Murielle Borst-Tarrant
(Kuna Rappahanock)
Henu Josephine Tarrant
(Kuna, Rappahanock, Hopi, Hochunk)
Kevin Tarrant
(Hopi, Hochunk)
Crew:
Choreographer – Nic Billey
Musical Design- Branden Tubby (Choctaw )
Scribe and Production Consultant- Timothy Dorsey
Musical Director- Kevin Tarrant
Costume/set design- Maggie Rice (Pawnee)
Piano and Historical Musical Design- Elizabeth Thunder Bird Haile (Shinnecock) and The Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum
Production Apprentice- Kimberly Terrance (Mohawk Akwesasne)
Additional Writings:
Danielle Soames
Nic Billey
Henu Josephine Tarrant
Elizabeth Rolston
Tonya Gonnella Frichner based on her preliminary report on the Doctrine of Discovery
La MaMa Theatre in collaboration with the Weesageechak Begins to Dance Festival, Native Earth Performing Arts and First Peoples Fund and the Ford Foundation through a grant from the FPF Our Nations Spaces Program.
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Tune in to a new show directed by TheatreNow! guest Murielle Borst Tarrant. Murielle’s episode will be posted soon.
LIVE STREAM PERFORMANCE COMING TO YOU FROM LA MAMA & CULTUREHUB
“Dante’s Inferno, a journey into hell, a life in Indian show business”
Tune in on Monday April 29th at 11AM EST
Streaming to you live at http://www.culturehub.org/live1
Directed by Murielle Borst-Tarrant
Featuring Nicholson Billey, Tanis Parenteau, Josephine Tarrant and Kevin Tarrant
Watch out when Indian show business meets the “Doctrine of Discovery”. A raucous political satire loosely based on Dante’s Inferno. A comedic, hard hitting look at the marginalization of Indigenous Peoples and appropriation of Indigenous cultural property in show business. Watch this 30 minute workshop piece and join us afterward for a panel discussion with the cast on “Self-Determination and the Arts.”
With special guests:
Tonya Gonnella Frichner, ESQ ( Onondaga Nation, Snipe Clan) President and Founder American Indian Law Alliance
Karmenlara Ely Artistic Director of The Norwegian Theater Academy
And
Muriel Miguel ( Kuna, Rappahannock) Artistic Director of Spiderwoman Theater
http://www.murielleborsttarrant.com
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Kate Valk, Actress, The Wooster Group
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Margo Jefferson, Theatre and Cultural Critic
Maria Alexandria Beech, Playwright, Bookwriter and Lyricist
Murielle Borst Tarrant, Playwright, Director and Producer
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