Highlighting Our 12th Annual Summer Institute
Chelsee Stewart
Chelsee Stewart has committed her life to freedom and empowerment for herself and others. As a public speaker, influencer, and movement artist, she inspires others in their evolutionary journeys. Movement is Chelsee’s first language and has absolutely been the way she navigates her emotional body and life in all of its cycles. She is passionate about impacting others with her art and creating an enlivened community.
Chelsee is devoted to her own embodiment of self love and living authentically with the intention of supporting others towards living in harmony with self, each other, and the land.
With roots from the south and a life well traveled, Chelsee carries a lot of diversity. Her family roots have been planted in Memphis, Tennessee for generations back. Chelsee’s blood comes from a rich history of resiliency and strength due to what her ancestors had to overcome because of slavery.
Africa leaves in her bones and will always move her. Although she didn’t grow up in traditional African ways, the spirit of Africa has always been with her.
It is of great passion for Chelsee to honor her ancestors through her songs, dances, DJing, modeling, and speaking. As they who are guiding her & made the very life she lives possible.
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Dancing Earth Creations dynamically activates our mission, to create contemporary dance and related arts through global indigenous and intercultural relationships centered in ecological and cultural diversity for creativity, health, and wellness.
Founded by Artistic Director Rulan Tangen, to serve a need rarely met in the USA, DEC gives hope and opportunity to Native, mixed, global Indigenous and BIPOC talent who have been largely outside the dialogue of mainstream performance because of lack of access. DEC is an organic constellation of largely self-taught dancers, composers, costumers, filmmakers, and spoken word artists.
Together, DEC artists work with community members, culture carriers, and inter-cultural elders to explore the rich diversity of ancestral heritage, contemporary identity, and relationship building, by collaborating on innovative ecologically themed performances. DEC's work promotes environmental awareness, cultural diversity, and understanding between peoples through contemporary arts expressions.
“We gather as individual artists to create experimental yet elemental dances that reflect our rich cultural heritage as contemporary global peoples. We strive to embody the unique essences of cultural perspectives by creation and renewal of artistic and cultural movement rituals. Ancient and futuristic, our dances are an elemental language of bone and blood memory in motion.” - Founding Director, Rulan Tangen