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Following performances at COCO Dance Festival, Artist-in-Residence, Santee Smith has focused on creative development in the studio and on Site Visits. On Wednesday, 8 October 2014, with Monique Mojica (collaborator on a new Indigenous Women's Project) and Dr. Jorge Morejon (University of the West Indies dance and theatre lecturer), Santee visited Banwari Trace - the oldest archaeological site in the Caribbean. Two days later, they joined the Santa Rosa Carib Community for the Opening of the First Peoples Heritage Week. 

Read more on Banwari Trace from the Archaeology Centre of the History Department of the University of the West Indies: http://sta.uwi.edu/fhe/archaeology/.

Learn more about the First Peoples Heritage Week here: http://santarosafirstpeoples.org/. 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Santee Smith is a mother, performer, an award-winning producer and choreographer. She is from the Kahnyen’kehàka (Mohawk) Nation, Turtle Clan from Six Nations, Ontario. Her dance journey began early and included attending Canada’s National Ballet School. She holds Kinesiology and Psychology degrees from McMaster University and a M.A. in Dance from York University. In 1996 the opportunity to choreography ignited her creative force and she produced her first major choreographic work, Kaha:wi in 2004. In 2005, Santee founded Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, a vehicle for her artistic work. Her artistic work speaks about identity and humanity. Her performances and collaborations have occurred in Canada, United States, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, France, Japan and Indonesia. Discovering her dancing body is Santee’s life long inquiry. 

Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock) is an actor/playwright and artist-scholar passionately dedicated to a theatrical practice as acts of healing, of reclaiming historical/cultural memory and of resistance. Spun directly from the family-web of Spiderwoman Theater, her first play “Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots” was produced in 1990. She is the co-editor, with Ric Knowles, ofStaging Coyote’s Dream An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English, vols. I & II. A co-founder of Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble, Monique has taught Indigenous Theatre in theory, process and practice at the University of Illinois, the Institute of American Indian Arts and at McMaster University. She founded Chocolate Woman Collective in 2007 to develop the play “Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way” that premiered in June 2011 and was created by devising a dramaturgy specific to Guna cultural aesthetics, story narrative and literary structure. She was most recently seen on stage in the re-mount of “Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way” presented by Native Earth Performing Arts and in the role of Goneril in the NAC’s production Of “King Lear”. Upcoming projects include “Side Show Freaks” and “Circus Injuns” co-written with LeAnne Howe and directed by Michael Greyeyes.