This Is Who We Are
An interdisciplinary performance event bringing together over 100 participating community members from across southwest Alaska, performing and presenting scenes, digital stories, and Yup’ik dance illuminating traditional stories from their communities. Led by Ryan Conarro for Lower Kuskokwim School District.
This Is Who We Are
THIS IS WHO WE ARE is an interdisciplinary performance event bringing together over 100 participating community members from across southwest Alaska. Young people from 11 Alaska Native Yup’ik villages perform dramatized scenes, digital stories, and Yup’ik dance illuminating traditional stories from their communities.
Director, curator, and lead teaching artist: Ryan Conarro | Culture-bearer and teaching artist: Nita Rearden (Yup’ik) | Projections & digital stories: Katie Basile | Music and Yup’ik dance: Stephen Blanchett (Yup’ik) & Gary Upay’aq Beaver (Yup’ik) | Scenic design: Sarah Conarro | Producer: Julie McWilliams
Commissioned by the Lower Kuskokwim School District Pilinguat Project. Presented at the Orutsararmiut Native Council Hall, Bethel, Alaska, 2011.
