I am alive, I am alive, I am alive...
is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Dmitri Peskov whose grandparents were persecuted/executed as Soviet political prisoners and Eva Green whose great-grandfather was stripped of his Indigenous identity at the Seneca Indian Boarding School in Oklahoma. The work combines elements of poetry, sound, and movement as an homage to all victims of political oppression as well as a celebration of Eva's Indigenous Ancestry as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
Eva green
Eva Green is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and is a business major student at Snow College. She has been training in artistic gymnastics for over ten years with Dan and Janna Coleman, Ron Bunting, and Melanie Wysong. She is the winner of over 7 first-place Utah state titles and one regional title in competitive gymnastics. Eva also studied movement improvisation with Dmitri Peskov and is a current member of the Snow College Dance Company. She has appeared in dance works by Breann Birmingham, Maren Rodgers, Robert Cox and Tylee Coates.
dmitri peskov
Dmitri Peskov is a choreographer, filmmaker, poet and writer who currently serves as the Chair of the Snow College Dance Department. Recent commissions include presentations of new choreography at the Dumbo Dance Festival in New York City and at the Third Dance Festival in Tempe, AZ; poetry and short story publications in Neva, Dactyl and Pyroscaphe journals in Russia and Kazakhstan; as well as screenings of the new dance film Bardo at Festival Videodanza de Puerto Rico, FilmFest by Rogue Dancer and Himachal Short Film Festival in India.