Dancing Earth: Diversity In Motion
Embodied Magic
with Sarah Hogland-Gurulé for the International Museum of Dance: Moving Southwest Festival
Date: Monday June 27, 2022
Location: New Mexico School Of The Arts
New Mexico School Of The Arts
500 Montezuma Ave
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Time: 4:30- 6pm MT
Class Description
This class centers the wisdom, curiosities, and desires of our moving bodies. We will begin with a guided meditation, move through an imagery-based warm-up and then explore prompts that connect us to our lineage, history, and visionary futures. The prompts will guide our time together, but this class will be rooted in freestyle and following your own body’s intuition. Open to all movers of all experiences!
BIO
Sarah Hogland-Gurulé (she/her) is a Xicana living in Tiwa land, her ancestral homeland known as Albuquerque, NM. She is a dance artist and educator guided by the belief that dance is a form of embodied healing, remembrance and visioning; all essential tools for our collective liberation.
Sarah began her dance training at Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts and continued training as a pre-professional at the University of New Mexico, where she received a bachelor of arts in contemporary dance (summa cum laude) and conservation biology (magna cum laude). She has performed with MALACARNE, Pat Graney Company and CHERDONNA (Seattle, WA) in addition to Lawine Torrèn (Austria) and Yeztli Danza y Arte (Albuquerque, NM). Her solo work has been presented by the American Dance Festival’s Emerging Choreographer’s Showcase, Seattle’s Next Fest New Works, Seattle People of Color Arts Salon, Isis Women Arts and the University of New Mexico. Sarah has also taught dance extensively in juvenile detention facilities, after school programs, pre-professional settings, family shelters and women's prisons.
Sarah currently performs with Dancing Earth and is a contracted artist through the City of Albuquerque as part of their inaugural CityMakers program. She also performs regularly with Meow Wolf Santa Fe and is broadening her movement curiosities to pole dance, house dance and popping.
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