July 2, 2003

Daystar/Rosalie Jones will be in residence for the Aboriginal ArtsProgram at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Alberta, Canada), June 21 –August 10. She will be the Native Modern Dance Choreographer and Coordinator. Two performances will be presented there this summer. ALL ARE INVITED TO: KICKOFF FESTIVAL July 12 (Friday) 7:30-10 pm Stage production with participants from all phases of the Banff Centre – theatre, opera, fine arts, etc. Aboriginal Program will present a 15 minute program of the best of traditional and native modern dance. July 13 (Saturday) Picnic all day at Banff Centre FINAL PRODUCTION August 1,2, (Fri, Sat) at 8 pm and August 3 (Sun) at 3 pm End of Summer Production by the Aboriginal Arts Program. A full evening of native modern dance by students, with guest and intern choreographers. If possible, call to reserve a seat. Anyone wanting to contact Daystar/Rosalie Jones can use: Email: daystardance@cs.com Leave a phone message at: 403-762-7541, the office Mail: Aboriginal Arts Program, The Banff Centre, P.O. Box 1020, Station 24, Banff, AB T1L 1H5 (Canada)

August 31, 2001

This summer, Daystar was a Guest Instructor at the Aboriginal Arts Program of the Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta, Canada. There, she conducted classes as part of the Choreographer's Symposium, offered May 21-June 1, 2001. The workshop, "Evoking Memories", takes students through a series of exercises in movement, writing and object manipulation, designed to awaken personal and family memories which then become the material for spoken word
and choreography. This workshop series was also taught by Daystar in June, 2000, in Helsinki, sponsored by the "Roots of Theater" company for Finland''s "European Cities of Culture" Millennnium Celebration.

Daystar is currently on hiatus from teaching, having completed in May, a two-year appointment as Artist-in-Residence and Assistant Professor of Dance at the State University of New York, Brockport College. This would be a good time for you to contact her with any questions you might have about native-based modern choreography and theater, or to book workshops and performances for the the future.

February 2001

DAYSTAR on the Treasure of Native American Dance-Drama by Ned Bobkoff.

An Interview by Ned Bobkoff for Scene 4; Magazine of International Media and Arts

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