Aanmitaagzi is back in New York for the Global Indigenous Theatre Festival taking place from October 30 – November 7, 2026 at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club as part of Spiderwoman Theater’s 50th Anniversary celebrations. The celebrations are being organized by Spiderwoman Theater in collaboration with La MaMa and Loose Change Productions. During the festival, we will be presenting a workshop on October 29th as well as a new performance, All My R(el)ations, which is part of the larger All My R(el)ations project. Full details can be found below.
WORKSHOP INFORMATION
Art in Community with Aanmitaagzi
La MaMa Community Arts Space (74A East 4th St, New York, NY)
October 29th from 3:00-5:30pm
This workshop is aimed at exploring, developing, and practicing cultural continuity through arts that draw from historic Indigenous, traditional, and contemporary arts practices. Participants will be introduced to Aanmitaagzi’s methodology of carrying forward indigenous knowledge through a community-engaged arts practice. Through movement and dance, theatre and visual arts, participants will explore the art of animating individual stories grounded in community.
SHOW INFORMATION
All My R(el)ations
The Downstairs at La MaMa (66 East 4th Street, New York, NY)
November 4 – 6 at 8:30 pm
Runtime: 45 minutes
All My R(el)ations (AMR) is a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project of gathering, reflecting, and dreaming. It explores the values of reciprocity, sharing, and relationality, and how to support healthy, thriving individuals within and through community. It looks at the ways communities have been negatively impacted and how we can recall, remember, and re-implement Indigenous knowledge and values in our everyday lives. It celebrates resourcefulness, creativity, care, and compassion for others in times of need. This project seeks to move the (el) from silent to vibrant, to move from all my rations to all my relations. It is a call for a return to good relations with all.
The All My R(el)ations performance and installation for the Global Indigenous Theatre Festival include stories and works from professional artists and community. It is built on a foundation of over three hundred story-telling luncheons with our elders, four summer intensives with our community’s youth, and numerous weekly workshops and intensives that have taken place over the last few years. Celebrating a return to community, this multi-disciplinary dance theatre project looks at who we are in the face of adversity and who we hope to be.
CREDITS
All My R(el)ations was created by Aanmitaagzi’s Lead Artists, Guest Artists, & Community
Director/Choreographic Lead
Penny Couchie
Co-creators/Performers
Sid Bobb
Penny Couchie
Ouske Couchie-Bobb
Imelda Villalon
Stage Manager/Lighting Designer
Jennifer Bolton
Installation/Set/Costume
Sherry Guppy
Production Assistants
Georgia Mianskum
North Sutherland-Spence
Autumn Hookimaw
Aanmitaagzi would like to acknowledge and thank everyone that has supported and been a part of this project over the years. It has been an amazing project to work on and we are thrilled to continue to be a part of it.
