Dancing Earth: Diversity In Motion
Embodied Landscape
with Esmé Olivia for the International Museum of Dance: Moving Southwest Festival
Date: Friday July 8, 2022
Location: New Mexico School Of The Arts
New Mexico School Of The Arts
500 Montezuma Ave
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Time: 12:00-1:00pm MT
Class Description
Through writing, drawing, and kinetic imagination, tune into the landscapes within and without to re-member qualities that bring nourishment and support. Move and let your body move you to create a sequence of movement that honors and activates connections to the resonant allies that surround you. Respond to other movers in the space with curiosity and presence to create a collaborative geography.
BIO
Esmé Olivia grew up in traditional Tiwa Pueblo lands known as Albuquerque, NM to a Mestiza Mexican-American mother and Dutch-Jewish father. Her blood is a peace treaty she honors through prayers of dance, poetry and song.
After competing on the 2005 National Poetry Slam Champion team, Esmé received her BA from Hampshire College in multi-disciplinary performance and arts-based education. Esmé has worked as an artist educator with many groups in New Mexico and beyond, from kindergarten to university.
Esmé is a part of the constellation called Dancing Earth Creations, participating as a movement, theatre, music and teaching artist since 2017. She lives on the Big Island of Hawai’i and in Jicarilla Apache, Pueblo and Ute terrain with her partner, where they expand on how music, dance and storytelling may seed new culture. Learn more at EsmeOlivia.com
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