Rosy Simas facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Rosy Simas
Rosy Simas by Tim Rummelhoff Courtesy McKnight Fellowships for Choreographers, 2016
Born	Rose Marie Simas (1967-04-04) April 4, 1967 (age 57) Jacksonville, Florida
Occupation	transdisiplinary artist, choreographer, performer, artistic director
Years active	1992-present
Current group	Rosy Simas Danse
Former groups	Shattering Feet
Dances	she who lives on the road to war, yödoishëndahgwa’geh (a place for rest), WEave:Here, Weave, Within Our Skin, Transfuse, Skin(s), We Wait In The Darkness, Bloodlines, Threshold, i want it to be raining and the window to be open, Birds, Have Gun Will Shoot, Moments In Between, Four Years Later

Rosy Simas is a Haudenosaunee artist. She is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians. Simas is a dance and transdisciplinary artist and the Founder and Artistic Director of Rosy Simas Danse.

Choreography

Rosy Simas creates work for stage and installation that unifies movement, time-based media, sound, and sculpture. Since 2012 she has collaborated with French composer François Richomme. Their collaborative works include: We Wait In The Darkness (2014); Skin(s) (2012); Weave (2019); Threshold, a film with photographer Douglas Beasley (2013); and WEave:HERE with Heid E. Erdrich (2019).

Exhibitions

Solo

• We Wait In The Darkness, All My Relations Art, Minneapolis, MN. (2014)
• All My Relations: A Seneca History, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian (2015)
• Blood Lines: Images of Attachments, Seneca Iroquois National Museum, Salamanca, NY. (2020)
• she who lives on the road to war, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN. (2020)

Group

• SKEW LINES: a residency and installations, Heid E. Erdrich and Rosy Simas. SOO Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN. (2019)
• Waasamoo-Beshizi (Power-Lines), Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND. (2019)
• Identity/Identify, Iroquois Indian Museum, Howes Cave, NY. (2020-2021)

Honors and awards

• Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship (2013)
• Twin Cities City Pages Artist of the Year (2014)
• Sage Award for Film and Set Design (2014)
• Guggenheim Creative Arts Fellowship for Choreography (2015)
• McKnight Fellowship for Choreography (2016)
• First People's Fund Artists in Business Leadership Fellow (2016)
• Joyce Award from the Joyce Foundation with the Ordway Center of the Performing Arts (2018)
• Dance/USA Artist Fellowships (2019)
• Twin Cities City Pages Best Choreographer (2020)
• McKnight Fellowship for Choreography (2022)
• United States Artists Artist Fellowship (2022)
• Doris Duke Artist Award (2023)