Jeanette Kotowich

Jeanette Kotowich is an Indigenous dance artist, choreographer, and cultural knowledge carrier whose practice weaves together Nêhiyaw and Métis cosmology, land-based research, and decolonial artistic frameworks. She began formal studio dance at age eight, growing up in a dancing family that would profoundly shape her artistic voice. Today, Kotowich works as an Artistic Associate and collaborator at Raven Spirit Dance, collaborates with Lara Kramer Danse, and facilitates experiential movement and decolonial-arts workshops. Her choreographic work draws from compassion, sovereignty, the natural and Spirit worlds, Métis social-dance concepts, and dance as medicine. Through her practice, Kotowich engages land-based research and Indigenous futurism as generative creative forces. Her work *Kisiskâciwan* exemplifies her commitment to articulating the relationships between family, history, heritage, and ancestors through movement. As a dance and cultural knowledge carrier, Kotowich's artistic vision is grounded in relational, cultural, and land-connected contemporary practice.