TROY EMERY TWIGG
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Troy is from the Kainai Nation in Southern Alberta.
He has worked as an actor and dancer but is primarily an artist in movement, choreography and staging, mostly creating his own works – which have been presented nationally and internationally including Iitahpoyii; They Shoot Buffalo, Don't They?; Dancing the Universe in Flux; Pulse; and Static. Troy was one of the original visionaries and founding artists of the ground-breaking Making Treaty 7 theatrical event. He is co-director for the young people's theatre version of Making Treaty 7 titled We Are All Treaty People. Recently he has worked with Decidedly Jazz Danceworks; Swallow A Bicycle Theatre, The Prairie Dance Exchange, and the Groundbreaking Iinisikimm puppet project. He has co-curated an exhibition called By Invitation Only: Dance, Confederation and Reconciliation for Dance Collection Danse. He has recently acted in Omari Newton's Sal Capone: The Lamentable Tragedy of, at the National Arts Centre and in Lemon Tree Creations, Why Not Theatre and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre's production of Lilies. He's currently part of Stage Left's core artistic team, co-creating Closet Freaks: A highly original QueerCrip production opening GCTC's 2020/21 season. Troy's current Performative Talk Series engages and discusses creating work with Indigenous and non-Indigenous resources, developing protocols involving communities, elders, language and ways of knowing in contemporary work. How do we engage without limits, yet protecting subject matter? In his twenty year career as an artist Troy discusses his experience in the development of this relationship that was long being developed through interactive art building well before the Truth and Reconciliation Report and the 94 calls to action. He also speaks of his experiences as a First Nations artists collaborating and working with other First Nations artists of other tribes, and of how he uniquely engages in that process and its approach. >> CREATORS main page |
At I'POYI 2011
At the 3rd Annual Rubaboo 2011
In Studio (undated)
In Lillies 2019
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transgressive ART.
intersecting CULTURES. non-normative AESTHETICS. |
