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Art NOW Series: Troy Emery Twigg
Occtober 19, 2018
Noon | University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome

Storytellers: Art and the Bloodline

Exploring practice, presentation and narrative through the indigenous lens of art creation and practice. 

Troy Emery Twigg (BFA'03) is Blackfoot from the Kainai Nation in Southern Alberta. An instigator of progressing First Nations arts in the country, he has worked with various arts organizations, committees and councils in various roles, capacities and responsibilities. He has worked as an actor and dancer but is primarily an artist in movement, choreography and staging, mostly creating his own works which have been presented nationally and internationally including Iitahpoyii; They Shoot Buffalo, Don't They?; Dancing the Universe in Flux; Pulse; and Static. Troy was one of the original visionaries and founding artists of the ground breaking Making Treaty 7 theatrical event. He is co-director for the young people's theatre version of Making Treaty 7 titled We Are All Treaty People produced by Quest Theatre. Recently he has worked with Decidedly Jazz Danceworks; Swallow A Bicycle Theatre, The Prairie Dance Exchange, Okotoks; and the Groundbreaking Iinisikimm puppet project locally. He has co-curated an exhibition called By Invitation Only: Dance, Confederation and Reconciliation for Dance Collection Danse and took part as an actor in Lemon Tree Creations with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre's workshop production of Lilies in Toronto and directed Waawaate Fobister's Gashkigwaaso at the 39th annual Rhubarb Festival. He has recently acted in Omari Newton's Sal Capone: The Lamentable Tragedy of, at the National Arts Centre this April.