is focused on cultural change, commissioning, touring and presenting Indigenous performance, and capacity building for the Indigenous and non-indigenous performing arts sectors.
The work we create together on a digital platform does not exist in an ether, in an imaginary void, but is made possible because of physical land and the Indigenous people who steward it. We recognize this digital space, and all the Indigenous lands and waters of those who join us here. Squarespace, our web platform, is headquartered on the traditional unceded lands of Lenapehoking; and Zoom, our digital gathering space, is headquartered in what is now called San Jose, CA on the traditional lands of the Ohlone and Tamyen peoples.
The photos are in!
FNPA had its latest convening in September 2022 during the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time-Based-Arts Festival. We shared art, ate salmon, and connected with our relatives. Check out photos and more here!
Please fill out our contact form or email admin@firstnationsperformingarts.global to keep up to date with our programs in the future.
Network, Kinship, & Decol Tracks
FNPA hosts a series of monthly digital convenings gathering Indigenous arts workers and organizers to align and vision efforts to develop the long term FNPA program. Ally and accomplice institutions and individuals to deepen decolonization practice, rigor and peer learning/unlearning processes.
Network Track
Kinship Work
Decolonizing Track
FNPA is seeking interested ally/accomplice arts leaders and organizations to join the next Decolonization Track! Read more about the Decolonization Track here and contact us at admin@firstnationsperformingarts.global to learn more.
FNPA Residency program at MANCC
The FNPA Residency at MANCC, is being designed in collaboration with Emily Johnson and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC). Cultural competency learning in the process includes tracks on Embodied Land Acknowledgement, Building a FNPA Residency Model, Decolonizing Digital Space, Decolonizing the DNA of the organization, and Building Accompliceship. MANCC is a participating member in FNPA’s Decolonizing Track.
Past Work and Participants
devynn emory as part of S.J Norman's, Cicatrix 1 (that which is taken/that which remains), First Nations Dialogues, 2019. Photo by Ricardo Martinez Roa
Daine Ashbee Serpentine, at First Nations Dialogues, 2019. Photo by Ian Douglas
Allison Akootchook Warden, Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter, First Nations Dialogues, 2019. Photo by Ian Douglas
Round Dance at Tëmikèkw, First Nations Dialogues 2019, photo by Ian Douglas
International Cohort gathering at ceremonial fire as part of S.J Norman's, Cicatrix 1, First Nations Dialogues, 2019.
Martha Redbone and Soni Moreno at Tëmikèkw, First Nations Dialogues, 2019. Photo by Ian Douglas
Holly Mititquq Nordlum as part of S.J Norman's, Cicatrix 1, First Nations Dialogues, 2019. Photo by Ricardo Martinez Roa
Sm Łoodm ‘Nüüsm - Dr. Mique’l Dangeli and Mike Dangeli performing “Where Do You Speak From?Locating Languages in the Body, Land, and Waterways" at Double Plus/Gibney Dance in Lenapehoking, 2018
Gloria Miguel with Genevieve Grieves and Lisa Pelligrino at Ktalëmskahëmòch, First Nations Dialogues, 2019. Photo by Emily Johnson
Quita Sullivan at Tëmikèkw, First Nations Dialogues, 2019.
Mariaa Randall, Footwork/Technique, at First Nations Dialogues 2019, photo by Ian Douglas
Procession as part of S.J Norman's, Cicatrix 1, First Nations Dialogues, 2019. Photo by Ricardo Martinez Roa
International cohort at Ktalëmskahëmòch, First Nations Dialogues, 2019.
Brent Michael Davids, IN WISCONSIN WOODS, 2020
Demian DinéYazhi speaking at Moshkamo Indigenous Arts Festival, 2018
Feast at Tëmikèkw, 2019. Photo credit Ian Douglas
Feast at Tëmikèkw, 2019. Photo credit Ian Douglas
Quentin Glabus, Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter, 2019. Photo by Ian Douglas
Header image courtesy of Paula Court