Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ

Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ is an Indigenous futurist 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.

Elisa Harkins is a composer, artist, and citizen of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, also of Cherokee descent. She creates work that integrates Indigenous language, song, and electronic music, focusing on performance, experimental sound, and language revitalization.

Hanako Hoshimi-Caines is a multiform experimental dance artist of mixed Japanese-European ancestry born and based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, QC. She works in performance, curation, installation, dramaturgy, community practice and writing.

Zoë Poluch is a dancer, choreographer and researcher. Originally from Victoria, BC, she currently works as Assistant Professor and head of the Bachelor’s program in Dance at Stockholm University of the Arts.

Recommended for general audiences, though some conceptual elements may be more accessible to adult audiences.

Content Warnings:

• Potential use of haze
• Sustained low-frequency sound
• Intense lighting states
• Themes related to power, visibility, and colonial histories

Funding / Support:

Conseil des Arts du Canada
Kulturrådet / Swedish Arts Council
Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Tulsa Artist Fellowship
The Stable
Agora de la Danse
Coproduction partners: MAI, MDT, Dance Victoria