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NATIVE RITES

A performance featuring Music, Dance, Storytelling, and multimedia, this is a unique exhibition was created for small performing arts centers, schools, community concerts, and corporate events. Normally with 5 performers, this is a wonderful experience that audiences around the world have enjoyed.

Presented in a 45 to 90 minute performance, and scalable from a very simple to larger presentation utilizing large screen video, computerized music, special effects, storytelling, dancing, and the Grammy Award winning artist, Douglas Spotted Eagle.

The Native American culture is shown in a highly entertaining and enlightening setting. This performance is capped by traditional dance in which the dancer presents many forms of nature and environment.  The storyteller's soothing voice presents the stories of the ancestors, told long before the time of paper and pen. The flute, North America's only indigenous wind instrument, creates an emotional background that is unique.

This performance is created to play for audiences of 100 to 1000. The intimacy of the presentation is difficult to play in larger rooms, with the intent of the performance having it's desired impact. This performance has played around the globe, having appeared in India, Sweden, North America, Central America, Canada, and Australia.

 

Douglas Spotted Eagle
The Native Rites performance may be packaged as:
  • 5 people are included in this performance. A keyboardist, a percussionist, a storyteller and dancers fill out the line up for this performance. Dancers may be increased in numbers if desired.
  • A 3-4 person cultural presentation, suitable for schools and very intimate settings. Douglas Spotted Eagle, a dancer, and a storyteller form the foundation of this presentation. Additional dancers and drummers may be added as needed. A painted backdrop accompanies the performance, and in appropriate venues, projected video is displayed along with the music, dance and stories.
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