Choreographer

René Highway

Canadian actor (1954–1990)

Born 1954 · BrochetDied 1990Canada

René Highway was a Canadian choreographer, born in 1954 in Brochet, who died in 1990.

Biography

René Highway (November 6, 1954 – October 19, 1990) was an Indigenous Canadian dancer and actor of Cree descent from Brochet, Manitoba. He was the brother of playwright Tomson Highway, with whom he frequently collaborated during their time at Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto, and the partner of actor and singer Micah Barnes.

Highway studied dance at the Toronto Dance Theatre, at the Tuukaq Teatret in Denmark, and at the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto. Highway helped to create the role of Nanabush in his brother's play The Rez Sisters (1986), and was the choreographer for Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing (1989).

From the Wikipedia article “René Highway”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Contemporaries

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