Video still by Ian Garrett. Garb by Tiśina Parker and Rulan Tangen.
Dancing Earth’s THE SOURCE presents: Restoring the Source : Movement as Medicine SPRING SERIES of Four Workshops
This online workshop series are offered as part of Restoring the Source series of seasonal dance practice of Movement as Medicine shared by Dancing Earth’s lead artist teaching artists Esme Olivia and Rulan Tangen, and offered from a spirit of love and inclusivity.
RESTORATIVE CONNECTIONS, with Esme Olivia
Sunday, April 9, 2023
11-12:30pm PT . 12-1:30pm MT . 1-2:30pm CT . 2-3:30pm ET
This time together will be full of invitations to improvise; your languages of movement are welcome. Move in relationship to landscapes that support, nourish and inspire. Allow elements within and without to influence movement. Notice how the texture, weight and feel changes based on where we initiate movement, be that bone, breath, or some combination. Cultivate awareness to invite the body to realign and reimagine. We will take time to feel our connection to the earth through our backs, so if possible, please be in a space where you can be comfortably horizontal on the ground.
We extend this special invite to those who have joined or expressed interest in movement sessions and online concerts in the cyber-world in the past year and winter, to join this movement series. We invite your courage, creativity, compassion and care - and welcome you to bring a friend! The full four workshops are recommended but you are also able to sign up for whichever you can attend.
Nobody is turned away for lack of funds, and if you are able to be generous with your resources, please consider doubling your donation to sponsor participation of someone who can not donate!
CLASS BREAKDOWN
10 min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share
50 min 'Movement as Medicine' for all humans, regardless of dance background.
20 min More challenging movements for those in session who want to embrace full embodiment, movements can be modified for any level of participation, or rest and stretch while witnessing the dancing!
Final 10 min Will be a group reflection circle about what is joyful, challenging, and what transformed during our time together, and sharing about the hats coming next
ACCESSIBILITY
As a survivor and supporter, I especially welcome those with Cancer, Chronic illness, Covid, including all Caretakers, to be able to participate even without a camera, lying down.” - Rulan Tangen. Movements can be modified to even lying down on bed and listening, imagining is a powerful ‘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
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
Special thanks to Eric Kupers, Professor of Dance and Inclusive Performance Chair.
Video still by Ian Garrett. Garb by Tiśina Parker and Rulan Tangen.
Nobody is turned away for lack of funds, and if you are able to be generous with your resources, please consider doubling your donation to sponsor participation of someone who can not donate!
We will be limiting space so please consider your reservation a commitment. We are encouraging donations to support Dancing Earth’s.
International cultural exchange programs (recent and upcoming engagement with artists, community groups and culture carriers in Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Australia and New Zealand), to create compassionate and sustainable relationships for creativity beyond borders.
Mentorship program for emerging artists leaders, spanning peer mentorship in administrative management, fundraising, budgeting, producing, grant writing, contracting, support for developing directorial and choreographic practice, coaching solo works, and community networks for workshops - and the vast creative skills needed to sustain a free lance performance career!
Cultivating high quality multi -media iterations to archive live work and as independent creative projects - as archival film footage is so often requested by our communities!
Summer Institute scholarships for incredible emerging artist-humanists!
Even if you can’t attend please consider making a donation to support this or any of Dancing Earth’s generous, prolific and ongoing inter-cultural, intergenerational, inter-disciplinary and inclusive creations! With gratitude, we welcome you to be a part of our circle by making your donation.