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In solid, Native-centric drama “Fancy Dance” — a project supported by the Sundance Institute across multiple development labs — writer-director Erica Tremblay gives audiences a glimpse into the Seneca ...

Fancy Dance is now playing in select theaters, and will stream on Apple TV+ beginning June 28. 2023 turned out to be something of a breakout year for Lily Gladstone. Those who showed up for Kelly ...

Isabel Deroy-Olson as Roki and Lily Gladstone as Jax in Fancy Dance. Courtesy of Apple TV+ Press Like many an American independent film that made a splash at Sundance or SXSW, Fancy Dance is a ...

In the AppleTV+ family drama “Fancy Dance,” 13-year-old Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) asks her aunt Jax (Lily Gladstone) what the Cayuga language word for “aunt” is. It’s a variation on the word for ...

Even as “Reservation Dogs” and “Dark Winds” have brought Native American stories to television, Indigenous films have remained scarce. But Erica Tremblay, who is a member of the Seneca Cayuga Nation, ...

Late in “Fancy Dance,” in which “Killers of the Flower Moon” star Lily Gladstone plays a contemporary indigenous woman trying to find her missing sister in Oklahoma, we’re told that there is a kind of ...