NO HOME BUT THE HEART
The newest company production!

THE PANEL OF ANCESTORS:

From an early age, Daystar was intrigued by her mother’s stories of growing up in the Blackfeet Reservation. The tales were random yet intense in their revelations about family and tribal life on the reservation, from the smallpox epidemic through the turn of the century to today. In creating "No Home But The Heart", Daystar has drawn from selected events in the lives of her great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother and tied them to historical events affecting the resettlement of native peoples in the late 19^th century. Because the family ancestry includes displaced French-Cree people from the "north", this work acknowledges the search of us all for identify, family, and homeland. In this dance-drama, the Daughter, living in the present, relives significant scenes from the past that teach her about her ancestors and lend insight into herself, her legacy and her future

SELECTED SCENES WITH THE CAST:

Specter of Death: the Smallpox Epidemic, 1837		Storyteller: The French Connection

The Grandmother in Old Age	The Grandmother in Old Age

Mother: Invisible Indian		Mother: Invisible Indian
Daughter: Self Recognition		Daughter: Identity Crisis

Celebration	Curtain Call

The Performers: Daystar: Rosalie Jones, Stephen Fadden (Mohawk), Santee Smith (Six Nations), Rose Stella (Tarahumara- Italian)
(Photo Credit: Jim Dusen)

NO HOME BUT THE HEART
*PERFORMANCE AVAILABLE:
This cultural production is highly adaptable to theater or non-theater
environments. It also generates valuable discussion about the Native American
social issues raised in the performance.
The script of this play has been published
by UCLA (Spring 2003) in
Keepers of the Morning Star:
An Anthology of Native Women’s Theater
Order copies from aiscpubs@ucla.edu

Daystar is currently teaching at:

Indigenous Performance Studies Program--Trent University
Indigenous Studies Department
Enweying Bldg, FPHL Rm#324
Trent University
1600 W. Bank Drive
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8
Canada

Office:  705-748-1011 x7921

Email: rosaliejones@trentu.ca

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Permanent U.S. Residence:

1473-6 Stowell Dr.
Rochester, NY 14616
Ph: 585-621-2813 / Fax: 585-865-0447

Email: daystardance@gmail.com

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