This event is presented in Partnership with Utah Presents and Indigenous Performance Productions

Join performers from Indigenous Performance Productions for a conversation on the evolution of storytelling traditions and manifestations in contemporary Indigenous communities. Learn more about Indigenous Performance Productions.

Speaker Info: 

• Andre Bouchard

  Andre Bouchard (of Kootenai/Ojibwe/Pend d’Oreille/Flathead Salish descent) is an activist, agent, director, producer and consultant who was born and raised on the Flathead Reservation in western Montana. Andre aspires to serve as an inter-cultural activist, working to build bridges and reverse the invisibility that serves to marginalize Native people in the US.  Andre's primary background is as producer of dance, theatre, music and multi-disciplinary performance but has worked in practically every roll in the performing arts since he began to self produce in 1999.  In 2001 he founded Walrus Performance Productions, a non-profit dedicated to providing first opportunities to choreographers, playwrights and multi-disciplinary performing artists in the Pacific Northwest.  In 2010 he founded Walrus Arts Management and Consulting which was expanded in 2015 to serve as a home to the first Native run performing arts booking agency representing Indigenous dance, theatre, music and multi-disciplinary artists.  In 2019 he founded Indigenous Performance Productions, a non-profit corporation (migrating all operations from Walrus Arts Management) a by/for Indigenous artist service organization and production house dedicated to producing new works, booking and managing tours, providing professional development and educating the performing arts field about Indigenous culture and performing arts content.  

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