Tria Blu Wakpa
Biographic Data
| ID | 794157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tria Blu Wakpa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tria Blu |
| FAMILY NAME | Wakpa |
| SIGNATURE | WAKPA T B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3042-0888 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Toward Becoming Good Relatives
This co-written article considers the possibilities and limitations that community-engaged, decolonial pedagogies hold for challenging normative, settler-capitalist goals in dance education. Current mainstream discussions in US higher education demonstrate concern with utility and career readiness, especially in arts and humanities disciplines. In the performance-based classroom, these ideas can lend themselves to expectations of physical trainin…
From Buffalo Dance to Tatanka Kcizapi Wakpala, 1894–2020
Through a Lakota, Indigenous, and dance studies lens, this essay presents the first extensive study of Buffalo Dance (1894), one of the earliest films to depict Native Americans, and in particular, Lakota men. Previous scholarship about Buffalo Dance has missed significant details about the film by failing to conduct community-engaged research and a reading of the movement modalities depicted. Instead, my analyses of the dancers' choreographies a…
Movement as Medicine and Screendance as Survivance
Indigenous screendance challenges US settler colonial constructions that drive political, environmental, and global injustices, which the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated. This article analyzes online workshops taught in 2020 by Rulan Tangen, Founder and Director of DANCING EARTH CREATIONS, as "movement as medicine" and "screendance as survivance." By connecting Tangen's workshops to Indigenous peoples' historical and ongoing uses of dance and t…
Decolonizing Yoga? and (Un)settling Social Justice
In the U.S. context, this interlocking, threefold nexus of race creates the foundation for settler colonialism, what Tuck and Yang refer to as "an entangled triad structure of settler-native-slave" (2012, 1). These forms of racialization are not relegated to the past or removed from yoga spaces, but have material consequences in the present and the practice, as Michele Tracy Berger's "I Do Practice Yoga! Controlling Images and Recovering the Blac…
A Constellation of Confinement
The Jailing of Cecelia Capture (1985), which stands out in contemporary Native American literature because of its focus on the imprisonment of a Native woman. The protagonist is incarcerated for drunk driving and successive welfare fraud charges from 1972, when she was a young, single mother working and attending the City College of San Francisco. For the majority of the novel, Cecelia remains incarcerated in her cell, which allows her to contemp…
Culture Creators and Interconnected Individualism
This article meditates on the interconnectedness of the making and meaning of an Indigenous contemporary dance work that draws on intergenerational Jicarilla Apache basket weaving practices. Rulan Tangen choreographed the piece, performed by Anne Pesata, which is inspired by Pesata's lived experiences as a Jicarilla Apache woman and fifth generation basket weaver. Tangen—who identifies as mixed culturally, including Native, Polynesian, and Europe…
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A Constellation of Confinement
The Jailing of Cecelia Capture (1985), which stands out in contemporary Native American literature because of its focus on the imprisonment of a Native woman. The protagonist is incarcerated for drunk driving and successive welfare fraud charges from 1972, when she was a young, single mother working and attending the City College of San Francisco. For the majority of the novel, Cecelia remains incarcerated in her cell, which allows her to contemp…
Culture Creators and Interconnected Individualism
This article meditates on the interconnectedness of the making and meaning of an Indigenous contemporary dance work that draws on intergenerational Jicarilla Apache basket weaving practices. Rulan Tangen choreographed the piece, performed by Anne Pesata, which is inspired by Pesata's lived experiences as a Jicarilla Apache woman and fifth generation basket weaver. Tangen—who identifies as mixed culturally, including Native, Polynesian, and Europe…
Decolonizing Yoga? and (Un)settling Social Justice
In the U.S. context, this interlocking, threefold nexus of race creates the foundation for settler colonialism, what Tuck and Yang refer to as "an entangled triad structure of settler-native-slave" (2012, 1). These forms of racialization are not relegated to the past or removed from yoga spaces, but have material consequences in the present and the practice, as Michele Tracy Berger's "I Do Practice Yoga! Controlling Images and Recovering the Blac…
Movement as Medicine and Screendance as Survivance
Indigenous screendance challenges US settler colonial constructions that drive political, environmental, and global injustices, which the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated. This article analyzes online workshops taught in 2020 by Rulan Tangen, Founder and Director of DANCING EARTH CREATIONS, as "movement as medicine" and "screendance as survivance." By connecting Tangen's workshops to Indigenous peoples' historical and ongoing uses of dance and t…
From Buffalo Dance to Tatanka Kcizapi Wakpala, 1894–2020
Through a Lakota, Indigenous, and dance studies lens, this essay presents the first extensive study of Buffalo Dance (1894), one of the earliest films to depict Native Americans, and in particular, Lakota men. Previous scholarship about Buffalo Dance has missed significant details about the film by failing to conduct community-engaged research and a reading of the movement modalities depicted. Instead, my analyses of the dancers' choreographies a…
Toward Becoming Good Relatives
This co-written article considers the possibilities and limitations that community-engaged, decolonial pedagogies hold for challenging normative, settler-capitalist goals in dance education. Current mainstream discussions in US higher education demonstrate concern with utility and career readiness, especially in arts and humanities disciplines. In the performance-based classroom, these ideas can lend themselves to expectations of physical trainin…
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Dance (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Biology (2 works)