Sun Dance The Sun Dance is a ceremony practiced by some Native Americans in the United States and Indigenous peoples in Canada, primarily those of the Plains Indians, Plains cultures, as well as a new movement within Native American religions. Members of ...

is a Native American ceremony. Sun dance or Sundance may also refer to:

Places

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Sundance, Calgary Sundance is a residential neighbourhood in the southeast quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. It is located east of Macleod Trail, is bounded to the north and east by Midnapore and Fish Creek Provincial Park and to the south by Stoney Trail. The man-mad ...

, Alberta, a neighbourhood * Sundance, Manitoba, a ghost town ;United States * Sundance, New Mexico, a census-designated place *

Sundance, Wyoming Sundance (Lakota language, Lakota: ''Owíwaŋyaŋg Wačhí''; "Sun-watching Dance") is a town in and the county seat of Crook County, Wyoming, United States. Its population was 1,032 at the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census. The town is na ...

, the county seat and largest community in Crook County *

Sundance Resort Sundance Resort, also known as Sundance Mountain Resort, is a ski resort located northeast of Provo, Utah. It includes more than on the slopes of Mount Timpanogos in Utah's Wasatch Range. Alpine skiing began on the site in 1944. Actor Robert ...

, a ski resort in Utah

People

* Sundance (activist), American Indian civil rights activist and director of the Cleveland branch of the American Indian Movement * Sundance (rapper) (born 1972), American rapper and radio personality *Sundance, a Secret Service code name shared by Ethel Kennedy and Al Gore *

Sundance Bilson-Thompson Sundance Osland Bilson-Thompson is an Australian theoretical particle physicist. He has developed the idea that certain preon models may be represented topologically, rather than by treating preons as pointlike particles. His ideas have attracte ...

, Australian physicist *

Sundance Head Jason "Sundance" Head (born July 9, 1978) is an American Country music, country-soul music, soul singer and songwriter. He is the son of American singer Roy Head. In 2007, he was a semi-finalist on the American Idol season 6, sixth season of the ...

(born 1979), American country singer and season 6 ''American Idol'' contestant, and winner of season 11 of ''The Voice'' *

Sundance Kid Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867 – November 7, 1908), better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch in the American Old West. He likely met Butch Cassidy (real name Robert LeRoy Parker) during a hunti ...

(1867–1908), nickname of Harry Longabaugh

Art, entertainment, and media

Films

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' is a 1969 American Western (genre), Western buddy film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman. Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, k ...

'' (1969), an American Western film *'' Sundance and the Kid'' (1969), a spaghetti Western film

Music

* "Sun Dance" (song), by Tomahawk * ''Sun Dance'' (album), by Aimer * ''Sundance'' (album), by Chick Corea *

The Sundance Kids Sundance are an Australian pop rock/indie rock band from Adelaide, South Australia, formed in 2006. The group began as the acoustic trio of vocalist and guitarist Ash Gale as well as guitarists Jason Shepherd and Luke Zecchin, before they were ...

, an Australian pop rock band

Sundance Group

* Sundance Group, an umbrella corporation run by Robert Redford with subsidiaries: **

Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted ...

, held annually in the Western United States **

Sundance Institute Sundance Institute is a non-profit organization founded by actor Robert Redford committed to the growth of independent artists. The institute is driven by its programs that discover and support independent filmmakers, theatre artists and compo ...

, a center located in Utah's Wasatch Mountains that allows emerging filmmakers to cultivate their craft **

Sundance TV Sundance TV (formerly known as Sundance Channel) is an American pay television channel owned by AMC Networks that launched on February 1, 1996. The channel is named after Robert Redford's character in ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' and, w ...

(formerly known as Sundance Channel), an American digital cable and satellite television and film network owned by AMC Networks **

, a ski resort located outside of Provo, UT

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Sundance'' (video game), released in 1979 *Sundance, a pony character in ''

My Little Pony ''My Little Pony'' (''MLP'') is a toy line and media franchise developed by American toy company Hasbro. The first toys were developed by Bonnie Zacherle, Charles Muenchinger, and Steve D'Aguanno, and were produced in 1981. The ponies feature ...

'' * ''Butch Cassidy'' (TV series), a.k.a. ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids'', a Hanna-Barbera animated series 1979

Transport

* ''Sundance'' (charter vessel), on the River Thames *Sundance, a call sign used by aircraft of the now-defunct

WestAir Commuter Airlines WestAir Commuter Airlines (IATA:OE, VB/ICAO WCA, SDU), was a U.S.-based regional airline formed when Stol Air Commuter changed its name in 1978 to WestAir Airlines; it was renamed WestAir Commuter Airlines in 1986. One of the founders was Mauric ...

Plymouth Sundance The Dodge Shadow and Plymouth Sundance are compact 3-door and 5-door hatchbacks that were introduced for the 1987 model year by the Chrysler Corporation. For 1991, a 2-door convertible variant was added to the Shadow lineup; this bodystyle was no ...

, a car made by Chrysler Corporation from 1987 to 1994 *

Sun Dance 36 The Sun Dance 36 is a French sailboat that was designed by Daniel Andrieu and J&J Design a cruiser and first built in 1988. The design was developed into the Sun Odyssey 36 in 1990. Production The design was built by Jeanneau in France, fr ...

, a French sailboat design

Other uses

Gaillardia pulchella ''Gaillardia pulchella'' (firewheel, Indian blanket, Indian blanketflower, or sundance) is a North American species of short-lived perennial or annual plant, annual flowering plants in the Asteraceae, sunflower family. Description The branchin ...

, North American flowering plant *

Sundance Formation The Sundance Formation is a western North American sequence of Middle Jurassic to Upper Jurassic age Dating from the Bathonian to the Oxfordian, around 168-157 Ma, It is up to 100 metres thick and consists of marine shale, sandy shale, sandstone ...

: a formation of rocks from North America's Jurassic period * Sundance Sea: an ancient arm of the Arctic Ocean that extended through western North America *

Sundance Resources Sundance Resources Limited is an Australian mining company, based in Perth, Western Australia, whose main assets are iron ore leases in Cameroon near Mbalam, and across the border in the Republic of Congo. Following the loss of the Congo mining l ...

, an Australian mining company