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# A Poetic Video Work on Native American Fancy Dancers Goes on View
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/a-poetic-video-work-on-native-american-fancy-dancers-goes-on-view/
- Published: 2017-03-30T21:53:48.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:41:20.000Z
- Description: Dara Friedman's video work Mother Drum, documenting her encounters with Native American Fancy dancers and drummers, goes on view at Kayne Griffin Corcoran in Los Angeles this Friday.
- Author: Matt Stromberg
- Tags: Art, Events, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:23 (2016, 2017, part 2)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2017/03/mother-drum.jpg)

Dara Friedman, “Mother Drum” (2016) (image courtesy the artist, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York)

The recent [unearthing of a Native American City](http://www.npr.org/2014/04/08/300518603/developer-to-preserve-ancient-tequesta-village-in-heart-of-miami?ref=hyperallergic.com) beneath the modern metropolis of Miami was the initial inspiration for filmmaker and video artist Dara Friedman’s latest work,[*Mother Drum*](http://www.kaynegriffincorcoran.com/exhibitions/dara-friedman2?ref=hyperallergic.com). In the summer of 2015, Friedman travelled to [powwows](http://www.powwows.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) on the Swinomish Reservation in Washington, the Coeur d’Alene Reservation in Idaho, and Crow Agency Reservation in Montana, where she met with Native American [Fancy dancers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy%5Fdance?ref=hyperallergic.com) and drummers. Instead of presenting a straightforward documentation of these social gatherings, Friedman filmed the dancers and drummers performing solely for her camera, apart from the main events.

The resulting footage is a poetic, evocative meditation on the power of movement, music, and ceremony. The three-channel video, just over 14 minutes, will be on view at Kayne Griffin Corcoran starting this Friday. A performance featuring one of the dancers from the film will take place during the opening reception at 7:45pm.

**When:** Opens Friday, March 31, 6–8pm  
**Where:** Kayne Griffin Corcoran (1201 South La Brea Avenue, Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles)

*More info* [*here*](http://www.kaynegriffincorcoran.com/exhibitions/dara-friedman2?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*