Dakota Camacho
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EDUCATION
Masters of Performance Studies, May 2015 , Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Bachelor of Arts in Gender and Women’s Studies With Honors, May 2013
Area of Concentration in Chamoru Studies
, University of Wisconsin-Madison
I Fanlalai’an Oral History Project — Chant Initiate, May 2012 University of Guåhan
Initiation as a Chanter certifies Dakota’s ability to represent and interpret the oral history of Matao from Creation Story through the Latte period through Chant and fino’ håya. As an inter-disciplinary researcher, Dakota now serves as an adjunct instructor and a member of the core research group for I Fanlalai’an Oral History Project.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Chamoru Studies 394: Performing Indigenous Worldviews, University of Guåhan 2021
THEA 164: Dancing Indigenous Knowing, University of California-Santa Cruz, 2021
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
Creative Capital, 2022
Radical Imagination, NDN Collective, 2021
National Dance Project, New England Foundation of the Arts, 2021
Nia Tero Pacific Northwest Artist Fellow, 2021
National Performance Network, Storytelling & Documentation Fund 2020
National Performance Network Creation Fund 2020
Native Launchpad Fellow, Western Arts Alliance 2020
SETTLEMENT 2020, Artist-In-Residence, Plymouth, United Kingdom 2020
Weesageechak 32, Festival Artist, 2019
Kickstarter Creator-in-Residence, 2019
Artist Trust GAP Award, 2019
4Culture Arts Project Grant Recipient
Selected to perform solo work at NW New Works 2019
Jack Straw Artist Support Program 2019
Innovation Lab recipient by the Resonance Network 2018
NewMusicUSA 2017 Project Grant Recipient
First Nations Exchange participant at Australian Performing Arts Market, Meeanjin [Brisbane, Queensland] Feb 2018
Artist-in-Residence — Indigenous Stamina: Tactics & Revelations — Uluru, Australia sponsored by Creative New Zealand Oct 2017
Artist-in-Residence for Indigenous Stamina: Tactics & Revelations at National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Skills Development Association Dance College, Darkingjung Land, Sydney Australia Nov 2017
Tasdance, Trouwanna [Launceston, Tasmania] July 2017
Creation Lab artist at Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival [Melbourne, Aus] May 2017)
International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium, July 2016
Government of Guåhan Festival of the Pacific Arts Literary Arts Delegate, May-June 2016
NYU Tisch School of the Arts Performance Studies Fellow, 2014-2015
Government of Guåhan Festival of the Pacific Arts Traditional Chant Delegate, 2016
PUBLICATIONS & EXHIBITIONS
MALI’E’ • FANHASSUYYAN, Curator & Artist, Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum, 2021
Matao — an autobiography of indigenizing processes — September 2019 — Special Issue of Dance Research Journal
Fanhasso — Activating a Matao Worldview — Indigenizing Chamorro Identity and Creative Potential (Forthcoming) Contemporary Life in the Marianas Anthology
“Fino’ Mina’åse” — visual poem published in Kinalamten gi Pasifiku: Insights from Oceania, 2017
“Sigua na Pupuengi” poem published in Kinalamten gi Pasifiku: Insights from Oceania, 2017
Ababang – A Video Installation “We Are the Ocean: An Indigenous Response to Climate Change” at Wing Luke Museum, Seattle 2017
Ma’åse Ma’åse Ma’åse – Poetry on the Busses, Seattle 2017
“Fakmåta i Hinasson Håya: Awakening the Indigenous Mind: Sound Writing on the Acoustemologies of Hinasson Håya in Guåhu Guåhan and the Sound Potential of Contemporary Chamoru Performance Ritual” published in 3rd Marianas History Conference Milestones in Marianas History ePublication 2015
“I Mañainå-hu” — Belonging: Before and After the Immigration Act of 1965 – Wing Luke Museum Digital Exhibit
WORKSHOPS, LECTURES & KEYNOTES (2015-2018)
Indigenizing Self: Authentically Acknowledging Land — CULTURE/Shift, US Department of Arts and Culture National Conference, Albuquerque New Mexico 2018
Creative Contemporary Ritual at Dance Studies, University Of Auckland, October 2018
Atea — public workshop at Homeground Festival at Sydney Opera House, Australia, Nov 2017
11th Biennial Dance In Vancouver B.C., Canada, November 2017
Indigenous Stamina: Tactics and Revelations — National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Skills Development Association Dance College, Darkingjung Land, Sydney Australia, Nov 2017
EXIST(in)CIRCLE — Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA, August 2017
I Moving Lab presents I LAND at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, September 2017
I Moving Lab - Indigenous Methodologies of Public Performance — Art and Public Policy at New York University, New York, September 2017
Fino’ Håya presentation at Living Language at Endangered Language Alliance, New York, September 2017
Dance Workshop at Columbia College at Dance Studio, Chicago, Illinois (September 2017)
Staff at Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, WA August 2017
I LAND Workshop — John Young Museum of Art, University of Hawai’i-Mānoa, July 2017
I Moving Lab — Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia, May 2017
Indigenous Dance Forum 2 — Matao New Performance Project FANHASSO Methodology Workshop — UNITEC Institute of Technology, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa [Auckland, New Zealand], April 2017
Cultural Workshop — Hatea-A-Rangi School, Tokumaru Bay, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Mar 2017
Cultural Consultation for Ngā Aho - Network of Māori Design Profesionals, February 2017
Panel Facilitator Chant in Guahan and Across the Pacific at the Pacific History Association Conference 2016 in Guåhan
Survival and Wānanga: Creative Indigenous Approaches — First Nations Programming at Sydney Opera House, December 2016
Matao New Performance Workshop — National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Skills Development Association Dance College, Darkingjung Land, Sydney Australia, December 2016
Matao New Performance Project a Workshop — presented at PIAD First Nations Colloquium, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, November 2016
Creative Arts Lab facilitator presented at PIAD First Nations Colloquium, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, November 2016
CHOREOGRAPHIES
-|- Tåno' Uchan -|- : -|- Tåno' Dxʷdəwʔabš -|-:-|- MALI'E -|- presented by Native Earth Performing Arts Company in T’karon:to (Toronto) November 2019
-|- Tåno' Uchan -|- : -|- Tåno' Dxʷdəwʔabš -|-:-|- MALI'E -|- presented by On the Boards, June 2019
MALI’E | higher.infinite.power.healing.our.people presented by Dancing Earth at Skidmore College, February 2018
MALI’E | higher.infinite.power.healing.our.people presented by On the Boards, December 2018
Inafa’maolek presented at URBANxINDIGENOUS, at SOMARTS, San Francisco June 2018
Fino’ Maga’låhi presented at Gibney Dance Center, April 2018
NA’LÅ’LA’ presented at Velocity Dance Center, August 2017
Fino’ Maga’låhi presented at the Indigenous Dance Form 2, April 2017
FANHASSO presented at the Guåhan (Guam) Art Exhibit, June 2016
FANHASSO presented at the Festival of the Pacific Arts in Guåhan, June 2016
PERFORMING AS DANCER
BTW US — BETWEEN UNDERGROUND AND SKY WORLD by Dancing Earth, Yelamu (San Francisco) September 2019
BTW US — BETWEEN UNDERGROUND AND SKY WORLD by Dancing Earth, Santa Fe, NM 2019
Dancing Earth performs at INDIGENOUS NOW, Santa Fe, NM April 2019
KOTAHI by Atamira Dance Company at Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland NZ, October 2018
DISTO(R)CEANS - Choreography by Moonyeka performed at Velocity Dance Center, August 2018
TINANA | WHENUA project by Charles Koroneho at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Vancouver B.C, July 2018
I LAND 2018 at Indigenous Choreographers at Riverside, University of California-Riverside May 2018
I LAND 2018 at University of California of Los Angeles, May 2018
I LAND 2018 presented at Gibney Dance Center as part of Black Queer Land(ing) curated by Marýa Wethers, April 2018
Marks on the Land, Marks on the Body presented at Commonwealth Games, Jagun, Bundjalung & Yugambeh Country [Gold Coast, Australia], April 2018
The Culmination, Lenapehoking, [NYC], September 2017
Ruatepupuke, a new work by Jack Gray, September 2017
PUORO — a film by Komako Silver featuring Jerome Kavanaugh, August 2017
Na’lå’la’ presented in Multnomah [Portland] and Duwamish land [Seattle] August 2017
I Moving Lab at TASDANCE, Trouwanna [Launceston, Tasmania], June 2017
Tree to River at Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival, Narrm [Melbourne, Aus], May 2017
Creation Lab showing at Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival [Melbourne, Aus], May 2017
I Moving Lab in Whanganui, Aotearoa [NZ], March 2017
I Moving Lab in Tokumaru Bay, Aotearoa [NZ], March 2017
I Moving Lab in Rotorua, Aotearoa [NZ], February 2017
Lukao Fuha | Hikoi Piha, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa [Auckland, NZ] February 2017
I Moving Lab in Whaingaroa, Aotearoa [Raglan, NZ], January 2017
I Moving Lab in Hawai’i, November 2016
FANHASSO by Matao New Performance Project, June 2016
Indigenous Dance Forum, April 2016
SOUND COMPOSITIONS
BTW US — BETWEEN UNDERGROUND AND SKY WORLD — July 2019 A Choreography by Rulan Tangen for Dancing Earth
INDIGENOUS STAMINA — October 2018 A Choreography by Jack Gray for Atamira Dance Company at Tempo Dance Festival
HOLY City (Hate Often Loves Us), March-June 2018 a Choreography by Sammay Dizon presented at UrbanXIndigenous by API Cultural Center — San Francisco
Mermaids Howl, October 2016 A One-Woman Theatre piece by Marina Celander presented at Stockholm Fringe Festival
FANHASSO, June 2016 Choreography by Matao New Performance Project presented at Festival of the Pacific Arts and Guam Art Exhibit
The Beauty of Small, July 2016 Choreography by Bianca Hyslop for Dance Aotearoa New Zealand (DANZ) Te Kanikani Whakamatau – Māori Choreolab in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, NZ)
Indigenous Dance Forum, April 2016 Choreography by Jack Gray, Asian/Pacific/American Institute @ New York University Artist-in-Residence, Manahatta, Lenapehoking (New York City)
Tauparapara, October 2016 Performed by Te Whare Hukahuka at Saskatchewan World Indigenous Festival for the Arts Choreography by Jack Gray, Atamira Dance Company
THEATRE
Guåhu Guåhan - Full length* and excerpts have been presented at the following venues:
Washington Hall, Seattle POC Salon, NYE Experience, December 2014
The Beacon Massive Monkees Studio, January 2015
Line Breaks Hip Hop Theatre Festival, March 2015
Differential Sovereignties Symposium at NYU, March 2015
Lenapehoking Transformance Laboratory at NYU, March 2015*
ISM Project Showcase, April 2015
Cal State East Bay, May 2015*
Indigenous Choreographers at UC-Riverside, May 2015*
URBANxINDIGENOUS, 18th Annual United States of Asian American Festival, June 2015
Guam Community College September 2015*
Creating Futures Rooted In Wonder -- University of Hawaii -- September 2015
Buried Beneath: Bombs & Latte — Full length and excerpts have been presented at the following venues:
Marianas History Conference, Saipan, Northern Marianas Islands 2012*
Keynote Performance Women’s and Gender History Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2013
Linebreaks Hip Hop Theatre Festival, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2013*
Voices Rising Pride, June 2013*
Passing the Mic Festival, University of Wisconsin-Madison*