Dancing Earth: Diversity In Motion
Embodied Storytelling And Flow Like Water
with Justin Giehm for the International Museum of Dance: Moving Southwest Festival
Date: Tuesday June 28th, 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 all levels class is rooted in intention of movement. An artists piece of work is more impactful when it has intention. In my class we'll use the art of intention to immerse ourselves with storytelling through movement.
BIO
Justin Giehm is a dancer, model, and aspiring actor based in New Mexico, of Navajo, German and mixed heritage. At a young age, Justin began dancing by teaching himself from YouTube and later went on to teach various styles of dance, including hip hop. He became a member of Dancing Earth in 2014, joining the Summer Institute and a show called SEED with 60 community members in the Four Corners area.
Later touring with Seeds Re Generation to Canada, Guahan and O’odham and Ute territories in US, including performances at the John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts and Ordway Theater. His work with Dancing Earth lead to being casted in TV series Jamestown which filmed in Europe, and in ‘Doctor Atomic’ with director Peter Sellars at Santa Fe Opera. In October 2019 and January 2020 he performed in Dancing Earth’s latest work Between Underground & Skyworld in Yelamu/San Francisco and ASU Gammage Tempe/Phoenix.
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