photo by Daniel Quat Photography
DANCING EARTH returns to San Miguel de Allende!
EARTH BODY :
NEW & HALF MOON
Friday, Nov. 1st & 8th
9:30 - 11am
Faroles 3, Col. Atascadero
37700 San Miguel de Allende, Gto., Mexico
The beautiful space of CASA ANGELITOS
(Thank you, Roger, for your kind hosting!)
Artistic Director Rulan Tangen of Dancing Earth offers two EARTH BODY movement workshops to the community of San Miguel de Allende, uniquely designed for this place and time.
Rulan’s eco-somatic practices involve simple forms that revitalize energetic patterns by engaging intuition and imagination—accessible to individuals at any level of physicality, from professional athletes to curious beginners. Movements will be offered as a morning ritual, awakening the multi-sensory body and fostering a deep reconnection with both the inner dreamscape and the outer landscape. Each day begins by fully inhabiting your body and engaging the senses before diving into exciting creative activities in San Miguel de Allende.
Her eco-somatic language of physical expression has been shared with communities in 14 countries, through workshops, retreats, private coaching, cinematic expressions, and performances in theaters, galleries, deserts, and unconventional locations.
NEW MOON
Friday, Nov. 1st
9:30 - 11am
COST: Participation by donation, with a minimum suggested donation of 200 pesos.
The first workshop is timed close to the new moon, as community members prepare for the cosmic veils and mystical masking of Día de los Muertos, a time that evokes both ancestral honoring and fantastical guises. Inspired by the connections between the moon and waters, the phase of darkness and hidden light, and the ritual of revealing and becoming, the movements will center on circles, ripples, and spirals of sensuous somatic expression to ready the body, imagination, and intuition for the full experience of this potent, magical time in Mexico.
HALF MOON
Friday, Nov. 8th
9:30 - 11am
COST: Participation by donation, with a minimum suggested donation of 200 pesos.
The second workshop is timed with the half-moon cycle, representing balance, with imagery inspired by trees as expressions of reciprocal energy between land and sky. At this time of year, falling leaves demonstrate movements of release and letting go. We then continue the cycle of composting, softening into winter’s dream space, and making room to imagine and embody the new growth of spring, thus bringing the future into being through your embodiment.
CLASS BREAKDOWN
Opening 7 min Welcomes, intro, orientation, and invitation to share intention.
51 min Accessible ‘Earth Body’ movements for all.
Final 11 min Will be a group reflection circle about what is joyful, challenging, and what transformed during our time together.
This movement session is offered with humble respect to the Otomi peoples who have danced and sung these homelands, into renewal since the beginning of time.
ACCESSIBILITY
As a survivor and supporter, Rulan welcomes those with cancer, chronic illness, or COVID, as well as all caretakers, to participate even without a camera or while lying down. Movements can be modified, including resting in bed and simply listening—imagining is a powerful form of 'movement'!
BRING
Open mindedness, imagination, intuition and your full being
Layers of clothing for warmth and comfort and able to move
Barefoot or socks
Blanket or yoga mat
Water bottle
Notebook and pencil/pen
A FRIEND! We invite your courage, creativity, compassion, and care—and encourage you to bring a friend to share in this transformative experience!
RECIPROCITY
If you are able to be generous with your resources, we encourage donations to support Dancing Earth’s International Cultural Exchange Programs (recent and upcoming engagements with artists, community groups, and culture carriers in Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Australia, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Istanbul, and New Zealand) to create compassionate and sustainable relationships for creativity beyond borders. Even if you can’t attend, please consider making a donation to support any of Dancing Earth’s generous, prolific, and ongoing inter-cultural, inter-generational, inter-disciplinary, and inclusive creations!
With gratitude, we welcome you to be a part of our circle by making your donation to our Patreon.
ABOUT EARTH BODY
EARTH BODY is part of a series of seasonal ecological dance practices shared by Dancing Earth’s Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer, Rulan Tangen, and offered in a spirit of love and inclusivity.
For the Autumn/Winter series of EARTH BODY movement, Dancing Earth offers movement workshops both live and online, with spring marking the beginning of international eco-somatic retreats, international cultural exchanges, and the facilitation of creative processes for community rituals.
ABOUT RULAN TANGEN
Rulan Tangen is a lifelong dance artist. A creatrix and dreamvisioner, her contemporary dance practice strives to serve as a functional ritual for ecology, evoking transformation and healing. As the Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer of DANCING EARTH, she has passionately cultivated successive generations of local and global contemporary performing artists as intercultural creative ambassadors and conduits for social change.
She is the recipient of the 2018-19 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Award for Service, Justice, Freedom, Courage, and Gratitude. Rulan is grateful for all that supports her in the dreaming and doing of Dancing Earth: moving the world into renewal.
ABOUT DANCING EARTH
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.
“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