Presented by Springboard Performance and Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society in partnership with The Confluence.
Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ is an Indigenous futurist pop concert where dance, song and cultures collide.
A performance that brings together electronic music, choreography, and voice, created and performed by Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Zoë Poluch, and Elisa Harkins, the work examines minimalism and contemporary dance through the lens of multiple cultural histories and embodied practices.
Drawing from abstraction, repetition, and pattern, the performance unsettles the perceived neutrality of minimalist aesthetics. Through shifting power dynamics and layered presence, the work makes visible what has often been rendered invisible within colonial systems of recognition.
The piece explores simultaneity, plurality, and the positioning of Western contemporary dance as one form among many rather than a universal standard. Rather than seeking a hybrid aesthetic, the work emerges from the specific convergence of the artists’ distinct histories, artistic training, and cultural experiences.
Radio III also functions as a relational space, proposing a metaphorical peacekeeping agreement between performers and audiences, and inviting reflection on coexistence across differences.
Created by Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Zoë Poluch, and Elisa Harkins
Choreography and performance by Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Zoë Poluch, and Elisa Harkins
Music by Elisa Harkins
Produced by Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Zoë Poluch
Lighting design by Paul Chambers
Costumes by Jade Tong Cuong
Technical direction by Öykü Önder
Sound by Joel Lavoie
Production coordination by Tiera Joly Pavelich
Rehearsal direction by Justin De Luna
Funded and supported by Conseil des Arts du Canada, Kulturrådet / Swedish Arts Council, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, The Stable, Agora de la Danse
Coproduction partners include MAI, MDT, Dance Victoria
"Part contemporary dance performance, part neon-saturated disco, Radio III epitomizes a kind of strange but spectacular work. The swing between silliness and subversion, sincerity and cheekiness is what makes Radio III so captivating."
Rebecca Jacobson, Portland Monthly
Editor
Check out our other program;
Teach Me a Song
An installation work featuring Indigenous songs that have been translated, transcribed, reinterpreted and preserved as photos, scores, textiles, and recordings.
Free entry at The Confluence May 7 - 24.
Radio III ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ is made possible by
