Kaha:wi Dance Theatre

Awesome news: We’ve confirmed another two guest teachers for this summer’s Aboriginal Dance Summer Intensive Training Program.

Rosa John is of the Taino Nation and she her husband Melvin from the Kehewin Cree Nation are the founders of the Kehewin Native Dance Theatre. She has been using performance as a teaching tool for Native culture and history since 1981. With their four children and two grandchildren they have toured throughout Canada and internationally to the U.S., Mexico, New Zealand, Switzerland, France and Italy.

She has trained thousands of Native youth in Canada and the U.S. in theatre, music and dance to provide a venue for Native youth to express themselves.

The foundation of her work is to keep providing Native youth with a positive alternative to negative lifestyles through training in the arts. She does this by using traditional forms such as storytelling, dance and mask to educate and entertain Native and non-Native audiences.