Zuni Olla Maidens - Facebook
Zuni Olla Maidens. 2,612 likes. We perform at a variety of events showcasing our dances and songs. If you wish to book our dance group for an event, please email me.
Zuni Olla Maidens - National Endowment for the Arts
The Zuni Olla Maidens are a venerated dance troupe from Zuni Pueblo in western New Mexico, equally well-known for singing, drumming and their trademark dance balancing pottery on their heads, as well as being an all-female troupe.
Zuni Olla Maidens - New Mexico Historic Women Marker Program
Zuni Olla Maidens are one of the most renowned dance groups in New Mexico. The members, all women, dance with fragile water jars, or ollas, balanced on the top of their heads. These women play an important role in Zuni, acting as cultural ambassadors for the community portraying and preserving cultural traditions for future generations.
2024 NEA honors Zuni Olla Maidens, NM quilter Susan Hudson
2024年12月22日 · The Zuni Olla Maidens, traditional dancers and singers from Zuni Pueblo, were honored this year with the 2024 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship.
Marking NM’s Historic Women: Zuni Olla Maidens
The Zuni Olla Maidens are an all-women’s group renowned for their skill and ability to balance fragile water jars or ollas on their heads. Historically, Zuni women collected water in ollas from nearby springs for everyday use.
Zuni Olla Maidens - Native Stars
The Zuni Olla Maidens are a group of women who travel throughout the U.S. and Canada promoting the beauty and culture of the women of Zuni. They have been showcased at the 1995 Festival of American Folk Life in Washington, D.C.,
Zuni Olla Maidens - Richmond Folk Festival
2018年8月20日 · When the dancers of the Zuni Olla Maidens enter a performance space, balancing intricately decorated ceramic vessels called olla on their heads, they transform their foremothers’ essential, life-giving work of carrying water …
Zuni Olla Maidens – Pottery Dance | Smithsonian Folklife Festival
2024年9月16日 · A striking blend of the traditional and contemporary, the Zuni Olla Maidens bring dance, song, and pottery to audiences across the American Southwest and beyond.
Zuni Olla Maidens - Zuni Pueblo - The Historical Marker Database
2010年9月24日 · The Zuni Olla Maidens are an all-women's group renowned for their skill and ability to balance fragile water jars or ollas on their heads. Historically, Zuni women collected water in ollas from nearby springs for everyday use.
Zuni Olla Maidens: NEA National Heritage Fellowship Tribute …
2024年9月18日 · Witness the beauty of dance and song as five generations of women—the Zuni Olla Maidens—give thanks for the blessings they have received. Their special showcase pays homage to their ancestral women, celebrates the women of today, and gives thanks for the future women who will become performing artists.