Dancing Pony Productions

11/23/2025

11/03/2025

Join us onNovember 15, 2025 at the American Indian Center - Chicago to remember and celebrate one of Chicago's Native Community's most beloved members, William Smith. This Lakota veteran was a great storyteller who always put family and Community first. The program begins at 3:00pm beginning with an honor song and flag presentation followed by a screening of "William Smith - A Warrior in Time", a documentary celebrating Bill's life, services, and legacy. The program is free and open to all. Hope to see you there. Veterans, Indian Center,

04/16/2025

Looking for something different and fun to do in Chicago. Check out the Navajo Language version of Star Wars: A New Hope at the Newberry Library. This unique screening will be taking place on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 1 pm. The screening is free and open to all. Experience this sci-fi classicin a whole new way! While you're at the Newberry, check out their new exhibit, Native Pop! This exhibit explores how Indigenous people have shaped popular culture.
To sign up for the free screening of Star Wars: A New Hope, the Navajo language version., go to https://www.newberry.org/calendar/star-wars

12/29/2024

Dancing Pony Productions is pleased to announce their production of a staged reading of Sierra Rosetta’s original play, “From the Old Wood Forest” at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Based on a true story, “From the Old Wood Forest” was featured at the 9th Annual Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program’s New Native Play Festival in April 2024. The staged reading will take place at The Newberry – Ruggles Hall on Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 11:00 am.

“We are honored to present this staged reading of “From the Old Wood Forest” to our Chicago audience,” said Producer Louis Vasseur. “Sierra is one of the many talented up and coming young Native playwrights that are waiting for the opportunity to share their stories. Plus, we could not have asked for better partners on this project than the staff at The Newberry.”

“Chicago has long been a great theater town. I have been fortunate to have been a part of the theater community here for many years. Following the success of Madeline Sayet’s “Where We Belong” at the Goodman Theatre and Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving Play” at Steppenwolf Theater, it is time we develop more quality Native theater to join that Chicago theater legacy. This project is a step towards that goal.”

Dancing Pony Productions’ presentation of “From the Old Wood Forest” is free and open to all. There will be a brief Q&A after the reading to collect audience reaction and feedback. Please go to https://www.newberry.org/calendar/from-the-old-wood-forest to reserve your spot.

Join the Newberry for a reading of Sierra Rosetta’s original play, "From the Old Wood Forest," presented by Dancing Pony Productions.

03/16/2022

Bill’s is a great story that shares his devotion to his Lakota heritage, his love of family and friends, and his long commitment to service to others.

03/16/2022

For over ten years, the Harlem Veteran Project has interviewed and documented the stories of veterans from WWII forward, creating video documentaries of their stories. For the last couple years, we have teamed up with the students working on the Harlem Veteran Project to expand their stories to include Native veterans. Recently, we were honored to have one of the Native documentaries, Bill Smith - A Warrior in Time, be featured at the 2022 Beloit International Film Festival in Beloit, WI. This was a great way to share not only Bill's story, but the contributions that Native veterans have made defending this country, even before they were recognized as U.S. Citizens. For those who were unable to view the documentary in person, here is a link to it from the Harlem Veteran Project YouTube channel.

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01/01/2022

The staff at DPP love to shoot cons. We had a blast shooting approximately 20 hours of video footage at the recent C2E2 in Chicago. The investment and creativity cosplayers put into their craft is contagious! We love to shoot more than just the standard "hero pose", often working with groups of cosplayers to create little vignettes based on their characters. Her is Charlie working with a couple to have a little fun with their characters. I love her eyes as she looks directly into my camera at the end of the video. Despite being blown off in our directed vignette, these two heroes walked away together to enjoy the rest of the con.

12/22/2021

12/22/2021

As we come out of the longest night of the year, Artson offers some great advice.

11/01/2021

Although currently based in SW Michigan, Christy graduated from Naperville North HS. She is a very talented and confident young creator. Check her out at extra-comic.com.

10/31/2021

DPP had the absolute pleasure to talk with the talented graphic artist and author Christy McCulfor at Wizard World Chicago 2021. The full video of our interview will drop soon.

10/31/2021

We are excited to announce our Every Time I Kick the Ball music video has over 1250 views on YouTube! Thank you everyone who has taken the time to watch the video. If you haven't, here is the link to see what you are missing.

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