WELCOME TO THE
DIVINE FEMININE IN ALL BODIES!
Sundays, Sept. 24th & Oct. 1st
10-11am PT . 11-12pm MT . 12-1pm CT . 1-2pm ET
Dancing Earth is honored to co-host 2 online workshops with “New Matriarchs of Narragansett First Nation”! These two workshops are part of Artistic Director's, Rulan Tangen, exploration of her emergent movement of MIXED-ICISM as the process for an itinerant body of work for eco-feminism and eco-liberation. A multidisciplinary, multi-sensory, multidimensional, mysterious and magical will centering the wisdom of the body that may include writing and drawing.
Everyone is invited including BIPOC and ally matriarchs (open definition including mothers, culture carriers, and makers who bring dreams into being).
Intentions:
To experience embodied
Refreshing Revitalization
Supportive Release of what no longer supports our growth
ReImagining futures
Resilience and Rigor with joy
Restoration through Re-story-ing
Relationship and Reconnection with inner and outer landscape
Respect for self and all other forms of life
ReGeneration that comes from Reciprocity and Compassionate Reflection
Equal opportunities for all, regardless of financial status.
Cost, Sliding Scale: $25-$75 recommended
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!
Complimentary Tickets to first 15 members of Narragansett First Nation who contact n.tcfs.dept@outlook.com for special registration code!
CLASS BREAKDOWN
5 min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share.
50 min 'Movement as Medicine' for all humans, regardless of dance background.
Final 5 min Will be a group reflection circle about what is joyful, challenging, and what transformed during our time together.
ACCESSIBILITY
In partnership with our co host, we open this invitation to courageous survivors of domestic or family violence to reclaim empowerment through sovereign embodiment and restorative practices for wellness.
As a survivor and supporter, Rulan welcomes those with Cancer, Chronic illness, Covid, including all Caretakers, to be able to participate even without a camera, lying down.” 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
BRING A FRIEND!
We invite your courage, creativity, compassion and care - and welcome you to BRING A FRIEND! Lets experience wellness, creativity, and movement in circle, building strong and vibrant communities! We extend this special invite to those who have joined or expressed interest in movement sessions in the cyber-world in the past year, to join this movement series, with Creatrix and Dreamvisioner Rulan Tangen.
HONORING
We honor “In the Presence of the Sacred” Program Director, Dancing Earth Advisory Council member and matriarch Anemone Mars - eldest daughter of the beloved and respected medicine woman Wenonah Caroline Brown. We express gratitude for her program’s partnership of support from Narragansett Tribal Child and Family Service Department, to uplift her community. With love, gratitude and utmost respect we honor Wenonah’s lifetime of tireless dedication to Narragansett Nation’s wellness and continuance - the ultimate Matriarch, may she rest in peace and power, never to be forgotten by the man Native and non-Native people across the Northeast, the US, Canada, and beyond - whose lives she powerfully impacted for the better.
SUPPORT CREATIVITY BEYOND BORDERS
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. 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 here.
More about Rulan : https://www.dancingearth.org/rulan
More about DE : https://www.dancingearth.org/about-dancing-earth
More about Eco Elegies : https://www.dancingearth.org/ecoelegies
These movement sessions will be coming from Ohlone or Tewa homelands, to learn more about some of Dancing Earth friends and to support the initiatives of matriarchs, please view links of:
Sogorea Te Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/
Tewa Women United https://tewawomenunited.org/
Indian Canyon: https://indiancanyonlife.org/
Pocket Guide to Ohlone solidarity: https://kanyonkonsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Pocketguidetoohlonesolidarity.pdf