January – February 2005

Rulan, Thosh and Alex joined mohawk choreographer Santee Smith at the Banff Centre for the Arts to collaborate on her new work HERE ON EARTH, performed partially on modernistic totem structures of metal scaffolding. They also were featured in solo roles along with an international cast in her acclaimed KAHA:WI (see www.santeesmithdance.com). They performed in Banff, Calgary, the original mohawk territory of Oneonta NT, and on Six Nations at Brantford, where they also offered a dance workshop to 40 Iroquois youth. KAHA:WI gave the inaugural performance at the theater of the new National museum of the American Indian in Washington DC, where Raoul Trujillo joined our cast in a reprisal of his role as the Ancient One.