Rosalie Mae Jones

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Daystar Rosalie Mae Jones
Born
Rosalie Mae Jones

1941
Occupation(s) choreographer, dancer, educator
Years active1966–2017
PartnerNed Bobkoff
Career
Current groupDAYSTAR:Contemporary Dance-Drama of Indian America
Website http://daystardance.com/home.html

Rosalie Mae Jones, known professionally as Daystar, is a dancer, choreographer, educator and founder and artistic director of DAYSTAR: Contemporary Dance-Drama of Indian America.

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Early life and education

Rosalie Mae (in some sources May) Jones was born on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana in 1941. [1] She was raised off the reserve in the town of Cut Bank, studied ballet and piano as a child, and was encouraged by her parents to pursue higher education. [2] [3] She attended Fort Wright College, where she studied piano, and a class in Modern Dance led by Hanya Holm, which changed the course of her studies. [3] She would later complete a Master's Degree in Dance from the University of Utah. [2] [4] While at Utah, she studied under Joan Woodbury and Shirley Ririe, and met her life-long mentor, Barry Lynn. [1] [3] In 1969, she attended Juilliard under a scholarship for young Native American artists and studied under José Limón, Bertram Ross, Alfredo Corvino, and Reid Gilbert. [2] [5]

Career

While studying for her Master's degree at the University of Utah, Jones was hired by the Institute of American Indian Arts to produce what would become "Sipapu: A Drama of Authentic Dance and Chants of Indian America" which featured thirty Modern dancers and two hundred traditional dancers from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. [6] Later, at Juilliard, her studies involved working with fellow student Cordell Morsette and members of the Flandreau Indian High School in South Dakota to produce "The Gift of the Pipe" a re-telling of the story of White Buffalo Calf Woman. [6] Jones founded the dance company Daystar: Contemporary Dance-Drama of Indian America in 1982. [6] [7] The company distinguished itself by developing modern dance performances featuring Native American stories and oral histories. [7] Its stated mission is to encourage and train Native American talent in the performing arts, and to teach others to approach respectfully, the dance, music, and art of Native Americans." [6] It was the first United States Modern dance company created with all-native performers. [6] Jones considers choreographer Barry Lynn as one of her life-long mentors, and has also collaborated extensively with her partner Ned Bobkoff. [1] [8] In the early 1990s, she chaired the Institute of American Indian Arts Department of Performing Arts in Santa Fe. [9] From 2005 to 2017 she taught in the Indigenous Studies program at Trent University in the area of Indigenous performance. [10]

Jones' style has been described as encompassing multiple styles that, while restaging Indigenous stories, also seeks to reclaim identities on a foundation of traditional culture while demonstrating a mastery of Western stage dance techniques. [6]

Family

Jones was born on the Blackfoot Reservation in Montana. Her mother was Pembina Chippewa/Blackfeet who worked as a hotel maid and her father was a Welsh-Canadian railroad worker and welder. [1] Her great-grandmother was Susan Big Knife, who inspired her work "No Home But the Heart." [1] [7]

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  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Magill, Gordon L. (August 1, 1998). "Rosalie Jones: guiding light of Daystar". Dance Magazine. 72 (8): 64–69. ISSN   0011-6009 . Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  4. 1 2 Pearson-Little Thunder, Julie (2007). "Dancers from Beginning to End: Native-based Modern Dance and the Storytelling Dance-Drama of Daystar/Rosalie Jones". Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance. 4 (1): 41–53. ATLA0001689538 – via EBSCO.
  5. ↑ "Daystar (Rosalie Jones) – Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies – Trent University". www.trentu.ca. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Apsey, Katie (2009). Embodied Sovereignty: Dialogues With Contemporary Aboriginal Dance (PDF) (Thesis). Montreal: Concordia University (Canada).
  7. 1 2 3 4 Shea Murphy, Jacqueline (2007). The people have never stopped dancing : Native American modern dance histories. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 20, 207, 263. ISBN   978-0-8166-5380-5. OCLC   191737984.
  8. ↑ Daystar/Jones, Rosalie; Bobkoff, Ned (2010). "Cross-Cultural Collaborations: Friend or Foe? An Arts Interactive: Empowering the Individual within the Home Community and among Diverse Cultures". In Davis, Lynne (ed.). Alliances: re/envisioning Indigenous non-Indigenous relationships. Toronto: University of Toronto. pp. 391–403. ISBN   9781442699885.
  9. ↑ Rafferty, Rebecca. "Rochester 10: Rosalie "Daystar" Jones". CITY News. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  10. ↑ "Daystar (Rosalie Jones) – Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies". www.trentu.ca. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  11. ↑ "The Blackfeet medicine lodge ceremony: ritual and dance-drama | WorldCat.org". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  12. ↑ "Allegory Of The Cranes". December 30, 2021. Archived from the original on December 30, 2021. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  13. ↑ Jones, Daystar/Rosalie (April 2016). "Dreaming the Fourth Hill". Dance Research Journal. 48 (1): 13–18. doi:10.1017/S0149767716000048. eISSN   1940-509X. ISSN   0149-7677. S2CID   192896534 . Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  14. ↑ "jiibayaabooz: Light In The Underworld". May 22, 2022. Archived from the original on May 22, 2022. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
  15. ↑ Jones, Rosalie M. (September 1, 2017). "'Dancing the Four Directions': The spirit of intuition". Dance, Movement & Spiritualities. 4 (2): 183–195. doi:10.1386/dmas.4.2.183_1. ISSN   2051-7068 . Retrieved November 8, 2022.
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