Cochise Anderson

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CONGRATULATIONS 2 COCHISE 4 B-ING SELECTED AS A 2010 "NAKED STAGES" ARTIST 4 SPOKEN WORD AND PERFORMANCE AT THE PILSBURY THEATRE IN SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS AND AS A 2010 VERVE SPOKEN WORD FELLOW 4 THE CREATION OF THE FULL PRODUCTION OF "MEOTHODS OF MASS DECEPTION." PREMIERING THIS DEC 8TH THRU THE 11TH AT THE PILLSBURY HOUSE THEATRE. THANKS 2 ALL THE SUPPORTERS OF THIS VISION!!
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“METHODS OF
MASS DECEPTION”
BY COCHISE
PRODUCED BY BRENT MICHAEL DAVIDS OF RAVING NATIVE RADIO
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CONGRATULATIONS 2 COCHISE ANDERSON 2010 2007-2008 RECIPIENT OF THE FIRST NATIONS COMPOSERS INITIATIVE-COMMON ROOTS GRANT ADMINISTERED BY THE AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM!!
Congratulations to Cochise Anderson
Artist of the Month for February - 2006
Click Award to hear music from his CD The Kemosabe Therapy



Chickasaw/Choctaw Nations



Flute and Spoken Word



Vote for Cochise's Okcha-a Is Alive!! For Best Flute CD!!!!
Nominated Are The Slammin’ Flute Songs – Kokopelli’s Groove and Three Sisters – Corn Beans and Squash.
Vote for OKCHA-A IS ALIVE!! for the 2008 APCMA - Aboriginal People’s Choice Music Awards in the categories of BEST FLUTE CD, Aboriginal Entertainer of the Year, and Best Album Design.



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M. COCHISE ANDERSON, from the CHICKASAW and CHOCTAW Nations of OKLAHOMA, who grew up in North Torrance ~ LA, Calif. & Portland, OR, is a musician, actor, poet, spoken word performance artist, playwright, storyteller, and educator. He studied THEATRE ARTS and PHILOSOPHY at Portland (OR) State University and at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in NYC. Cochise received the Jerome Fellowship for playwriting (The Education of Benjamin Franklin) and the Bush Artist Fellowship for Storytelling/ Performance Art (The Only Good Poet is a Read Poet). He has performed at The National Museum of the American Indian twice and The Open House Arts Festival at the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. He has also been a repeat performer at the Lincoln Center Outdoors Series in New York City. As an award-winning playwright he has extended his craft by initiating a creative writing/spoken word theater for young Native students in the Twin Cities area. Cochise has been the instructor for The Penumbra Theatre's Summer Youth Institute and he has worked as a Native American cultural arts educator for the past seventeen years throughout the country. From elementary schools to colleges and national cultural institutions he has developed a variety of curriculums and programs to entertain and educate all people about the beauty and struggle of Native America.
Cochise, an accomplished professional actor, has appeared in off-off Broadway and regional productions as well as Film and Television. He founded and was the artistic director of Chuka Lokoli ("Community"), Native American Theatre Ensemble in NYC with The Ensemble Studio Theatre. His acting credits include, (TV) The Cosby Show, Homicide: Life On The Streets, (Film) Daughters of The Dust, Bill's Gun Shop, and (Theatre) "To Kill A Mockingbird," at The Great American History Theatre and he originated the title role of Eddie Rose in "The Independence of Eddie Rose," at the Seattle Group Theatre. He recently completed a national tour playing Stevie Jackson in William S. Yellowrobe's Jr.'s play "Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers," at The Penumbra Theatre and the Trinity Repertory Company. Cochise was Kanati in the new retelling of "Unto These Hills" at Mountainside Theatre in Cherokee, NC '06. Cochise was also the featured performer 4 the HOOP Project conferene at UCLA in August '06. Cochise was also a guest Equity actor in the '08 DePauw University's student production, "Natural Selection," in Indianapolis, IN. Most recently Cochise was an ensemble player at the World Premiere of "RED INK," at the Mixed Blood Theatre here in So. Minneapolis. Cochise also initiated a new massive Chicago Blues Band, COCHISE & The Unconditional Luv! A must see 4 any blues lover! Cochise aslos led a Native American Delegation over 2 Australia as part of the '08 International Indigenous "DREAMING FESTIVAL" in Brisbane, Australia. He will then b leading a Peforming Arts Residency once again in Choctaw, MS!! Then it's back 2 teaching a 3 week storytelling residency with The Stepping Stone Youth Development Theatre 4 all ages in St. Paul. Cochise was a lead storyteller representing the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians for the 2009 ECHO Performing Arts Tour. Thanks 2 all MYSPACE friends 4 all their continued support Che Hullo Li!
He dedicates his life's work 2 his Mother, Juanita A. Anderson and Father, Gilbert R. Anderson, practitioners of unconditional love, inspiring dreams and visions, as well as his Grandmother, Catherine "Granny" Pickens-Willmond of McMillian, OK who is a Chickasaw Language Teacher at UCLA, and is 1 of the main sources (ok the main source!:-)) 4 the complete analytical dictionary of r language "aunumpa" 4 the people. Chi Hullo Li Iposi!.U r Sacred 2 Me Granny!
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