Safe harbors indigenous collective
April 10 - 12, 2020
Tickets: $X
JACK partners with Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective, led by Murielle Borst Tarrant, to present three pieces by the Safe Harbors Repertory Ensemble, an ensemble that focuses on the development and production of Native Indigenous Theater in New York City. Featured works:
Tipi Tales From The Stoop by Murielle Borst Tarrant, Red Moon Blues by Henu Josephine Tarrant, and Este-Cate By Nicholson Billey.
Performance Dates and Times
Friday, April 10th at 8 pm?: Tipi Tales From The Stoop
Saturday, April 11th at 8 pm?: Red Moon Blues
Sunday, April 12th at 3 pm?: Este-Cate
Tickets
$X Tickets available HERE.
ABOUT THE WORKS
TIPI TALES FROM THE STOOP, by Murielle Borst Tarrant
Celebrated theater-maker Murielle Borst Tarrant’s family first came to New York City in the late 1800’s from Virginia and bought a house in Brooklyn, where four generations were then raised. This story is about her family bloodflow on this land of New York City -- of keeping tradition alive in the face of genocide, relocation, the boarding school system and the outlaw of the practice of their cultural traditions by the United States Government. In Tipi Tales from the Stoop, Borst-Tarrant shares her family’s drive, dysfunction, and historical trauma, and how they survived and thrived through laughter.
RED MOON BLUES, by Henu Josephine Tarrant
Lillian “Red Wing” St. Cyr was a survivor of the Industrial revolution, Manifest Destiny, and the attempted assimilation of “The Indian.” Despite all odds, she managed to climb her way to a career in the entertainment industry as the world’s First Native American Silent Movie Star, “Red Wing.” Red Moon Blues is Henu Josephine Tarrant’s portrait of “Red Wing,” told by a post-internet, modern-world version of Lillian St. Cyr herself, using contemporary music, choreography and projections, and fed by the stories of Tarrant’s elder family members.
ESTE-CATE, by Nicholson Billey
In this performance piece, Nicholson Billey shares the narratives of seven Indigenous characters gifted with the ability to destabilize the "Indian" identity thrust upon them by the settler-colonial system. The narratives of Este-Cate (which translates to “Indian” in Muscogee) are woven into a collective voice that pushes beyond the historically-prescribed tale of victimhood and dire circumstances into the grounded normativity of Indigenous resurgence.
Tickets: $X
JACK partners with Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective, led by Murielle Borst Tarrant, to present three pieces by the Safe Harbors Repertory Ensemble, an ensemble that focuses on the development and production of Native Indigenous Theater in New York City. Featured works:
Tipi Tales From The Stoop by Murielle Borst Tarrant, Red Moon Blues by Henu Josephine Tarrant, and Este-Cate By Nicholson Billey.
Performance Dates and Times
Friday, April 10th at 8 pm?: Tipi Tales From The Stoop
Saturday, April 11th at 8 pm?: Red Moon Blues
Sunday, April 12th at 3 pm?: Este-Cate
Tickets
$X Tickets available HERE.
ABOUT THE WORKS
TIPI TALES FROM THE STOOP, by Murielle Borst Tarrant
Celebrated theater-maker Murielle Borst Tarrant’s family first came to New York City in the late 1800’s from Virginia and bought a house in Brooklyn, where four generations were then raised. This story is about her family bloodflow on this land of New York City -- of keeping tradition alive in the face of genocide, relocation, the boarding school system and the outlaw of the practice of their cultural traditions by the United States Government. In Tipi Tales from the Stoop, Borst-Tarrant shares her family’s drive, dysfunction, and historical trauma, and how they survived and thrived through laughter.
RED MOON BLUES, by Henu Josephine Tarrant
Lillian “Red Wing” St. Cyr was a survivor of the Industrial revolution, Manifest Destiny, and the attempted assimilation of “The Indian.” Despite all odds, she managed to climb her way to a career in the entertainment industry as the world’s First Native American Silent Movie Star, “Red Wing.” Red Moon Blues is Henu Josephine Tarrant’s portrait of “Red Wing,” told by a post-internet, modern-world version of Lillian St. Cyr herself, using contemporary music, choreography and projections, and fed by the stories of Tarrant’s elder family members.
ESTE-CATE, by Nicholson Billey
In this performance piece, Nicholson Billey shares the narratives of seven Indigenous characters gifted with the ability to destabilize the "Indian" identity thrust upon them by the settler-colonial system. The narratives of Este-Cate (which translates to “Indian” in Muscogee) are woven into a collective voice that pushes beyond the historically-prescribed tale of victimhood and dire circumstances into the grounded normativity of Indigenous resurgence.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective led by Murielle Borst Tarrant with Safe Harbors Repertory Ensemble focuses on the development and production of Native Indigenous Theater in New York City. Within the broader American theater we combat stereotypes and support vibrant Native communities. The collective seeks to build an understanding of Indigenous methodologies in Native Theatre. It functions on a grassroots level within local Indigenous arts communities as well as nationally and internationally through arts presentation and education.
Henu Josephine Tarrant (Rappahanock, Ho-Chunk, Kuna & Hopi) is a graduate of the American Musical & Dramatic Academy’s prestigious integrated Musical Theater Program. She has studied at Dartmouth (New York Theater Workshop) and The National Institute for Directing & Ensemble Creation. Her recent works include a one woman show written & performed by herself Red Moon Blues. (New York Theater Workshop NXT Door, NY), 48 Hour Forum (The Lark, NY) with the Noor Theater, DOGFIGHT (Concert @ Second Stage Theater, NY), Ajijaak On Turtle Island (The New Victory Theater,NY) with IBEX Puppetry, Material Witness (Northwest Coast Tour 2018) with Spiderwoman Theater, & Don't Feed The Indians-A Divine Comedy Pageant (La MaMa E.T.C, NY) with Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective. She also was a featured vocalist on the soundtrack of Dawnland (Comp. Jennifer Kriesberg). She is currently focused on song composition, and producing Native Theater in NYC by instilling programming with her team at the organization Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective.
Nicholson Billey is of the Chahta and Muscogee People of Oklahoma and is enrolled with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Nic has an MA in drama therapy from New York University and recently obtained an MFA from the Performance + Performance Studies program of Pratt Institute. While at Pratt Institute, Nic commenced his solo multidirectional, poly-focal performance work that he calls Indigenous talk-a-logue which is based in the theoretical and methodological fundamentals from Developmental Transformations (drama therapy) and the everyday practices (not quotidian) of Indigenaity. Nic is honored to be a performer with the Don’t Feed The Indians performance ensemble and a team member of the Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective of NYC.
Murielle Borst Tarrant is of the Kuna/ Rappahannock Nations. She is an author, playwright, director, producer, cultural artist, educator, and human rights activist. She studied acting at HB STUDIOS. She is also a graduate of Long Island University, Southampton College Theatre Program. She studied and interned with Spiderwoman Theatre and is a second generation artist of that company that was founded by her mother Muriel Miguel. She also works on the deconstructing of methods of the arts in Native communities in urban areas across the country and in the New York City education system. She consults many urban and non- urban universities on the development on Native theater programming. Nominated for the Rockefeller grant in 2001, won a Native Heart Award and was the only Native American Woman to have her work to be selected by the Olympic Games in Sydney Australia at the Sydney Opera House for her one woman show “ More than Feathers and Beads”. She served internationally as the Special Assistant to the North American Regional Representative to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues which one of her mandates was arts and culture. Directed Muriel Miquel “Red Mother” nationally and Internationally. She is the Artistic Director of Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective. Native Consultant for Regional Tony award winner LaMaMa Experimental Theatre for their Indigenous Initiative. She has recently produced, written and directed “Don’t Feed the Indians- A Divine Comedy Pageant!” at LaMaMa Theatre.
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Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective led by Murielle Borst Tarrant with Safe Harbors Repertory Ensemble focuses on the development and production of Native Indigenous Theater in New York City. Within the broader American theater we combat stereotypes and support vibrant Native communities. The collective seeks to build an understanding of Indigenous methodologies in Native Theatre. It functions on a grassroots level within local Indigenous arts communities as well as nationally and internationally through arts presentation and education.
Henu Josephine Tarrant (Rappahanock, Ho-Chunk, Kuna & Hopi) is a graduate of the American Musical & Dramatic Academy’s prestigious integrated Musical Theater Program. She has studied at Dartmouth (New York Theater Workshop) and The National Institute for Directing & Ensemble Creation. Her recent works include a one woman show written & performed by herself Red Moon Blues. (New York Theater Workshop NXT Door, NY), 48 Hour Forum (The Lark, NY) with the Noor Theater, DOGFIGHT (Concert @ Second Stage Theater, NY), Ajijaak On Turtle Island (The New Victory Theater,NY) with IBEX Puppetry, Material Witness (Northwest Coast Tour 2018) with Spiderwoman Theater, & Don't Feed The Indians-A Divine Comedy Pageant (La MaMa E.T.C, NY) with Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective. She also was a featured vocalist on the soundtrack of Dawnland (Comp. Jennifer Kriesberg). She is currently focused on song composition, and producing Native Theater in NYC by instilling programming with her team at the organization Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective.
Nicholson Billey is of the Chahta and Muscogee People of Oklahoma and is enrolled with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Nic has an MA in drama therapy from New York University and recently obtained an MFA from the Performance + Performance Studies program of Pratt Institute. While at Pratt Institute, Nic commenced his solo multidirectional, poly-focal performance work that he calls Indigenous talk-a-logue which is based in the theoretical and methodological fundamentals from Developmental Transformations (drama therapy) and the everyday practices (not quotidian) of Indigenaity. Nic is honored to be a performer with the Don’t Feed The Indians performance ensemble and a team member of the Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective of NYC.
Murielle Borst Tarrant is of the Kuna/ Rappahannock Nations. She is an author, playwright, director, producer, cultural artist, educator, and human rights activist. She studied acting at HB STUDIOS. She is also a graduate of Long Island University, Southampton College Theatre Program. She studied and interned with Spiderwoman Theatre and is a second generation artist of that company that was founded by her mother Muriel Miguel. She also works on the deconstructing of methods of the arts in Native communities in urban areas across the country and in the New York City education system. She consults many urban and non- urban universities on the development on Native theater programming. Nominated for the Rockefeller grant in 2001, won a Native Heart Award and was the only Native American Woman to have her work to be selected by the Olympic Games in Sydney Australia at the Sydney Opera House for her one woman show “ More than Feathers and Beads”. She served internationally as the Special Assistant to the North American Regional Representative to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues which one of her mandates was arts and culture. Directed Muriel Miquel “Red Mother” nationally and Internationally. She is the Artistic Director of Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective. Native Consultant for Regional Tony award winner LaMaMa Experimental Theatre for their Indigenous Initiative. She has recently produced, written and directed “Don’t Feed the Indians- A Divine Comedy Pageant!” at LaMaMa Theatre.
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