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2026 marks an expanded cycle of performances, residencies, and collaborative research advancing Performance as Ceremony across national performance and academic contexts.
MOCA Jacksonville,
Juya Nokakamea with
Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light)
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, September 27–October 2, 2026
In residence at MOCA Jacksonville for the opening of Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light), developing a dance workshop and performance responding to Romero's photographs, in collaboration with the museum and students from Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. Organized by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and curated by Jami Powell, the exhibition brings together more than sixty large-scale photographs spanning two decades of Romero's work.
Heller Center Indigenous Fellowship
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, October 10-22 2026
Residential fellowship supporting research, community engagement, and public presentation of Juya Nokakamea, expanding the Performance as Ceremony framework.
Dance Studies Association,
Two sessions, Long Beach, California, Friday October 23, 2026
"Deer Cosmologies: Movement, Attention, and Embodied Relations" , accepted for Speculative Choreographies Conference
Leading a a Working Group for Indigenous Dance
NE/X Festival of Indigenous Performance
Minneapolis, November 12-15, 2026
Founder and producer of NE/X Festival, supporting Indigenous and BIPOC artists working across contemporary and experimental performance practices.
A:gajë:gwah dësa'nigöëwë:nye:' (i hope it will stir your mind)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
performances May 14–16, 2026 Performed with Rosy Simas Danse in Seneca artist Rosy Simas's transdisciplinary project integrating dance, installation, sound, and community engagement.
Juya Nokakamea
Residency Red Eye Theater,
Minneapolis, June 29–July 9, 2026
Developed the ensemble version of Juya Nokakamea, with an invited sharing on July 9.
Indigenous Performing Arts Residency
Artist-in-Residence
UC Berkeley Arts Research Center,
April 20–24, 2026
Masterclasses, studio research, and a public lecture-performance on embodied archives, Indigenous futurities, and Performance as Ceremony.
Ash Mother/Fire Sister
New Works Festival, Artist in Residence Center for Performing Arts, Minneapolis, April 3–4, 2026 Developed and presented a new interdisciplinary work with Masanari Kawahara, bringing Yaqui performance practice into contact with Kawahara's lineage in Butoh and Japanese visual theatre.
WISH | BODY | TRACE
Danceworks 2026
Northwestern University
March 13–15, 2026
Premiered this new work, continuing research into attentional choreography, spatial relation, and collective embodiment.
Of Earth and Error
José Limón Solos Colorado College
February 27–March 1, 2026
Performed The Unsung and the Indio solo from Danzas Mexicanas.
Performance as Ceremony: Indigenous Futurities
UC Riverside
January 29, 2026
Invited lecture-performance on choreography as ceremonial practice and the body as living archive.