photos by Randi Lynn Beach

Excerpts of Between Underground & Skyworld

Dance Mission Theater

Monday, September 19th
7pm PT

Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

Dancing Earth is happy to come home to the Dance Mission community this month, where they debuted in 2004! This year Dancing Earth has moved into cooperative artist leadership, and you are invited to meet the artists for an engaged and embodied dialogue about creative process, inspirations, and intentions, including a sharing of an excerpt of their upcoming production

Between Underground and Skyworld, recipient of Gerbode choreography award and National Theatre Project award, and now on national tour with performances at Presidio Theatre on September 24th and 25th, 2022.

• Meet the intercultural, innovative, interdisciplinary artist-leaders;

• Engage in creative conversation about current performance intention, process, and inspiration;

• Experience some of the choreography performed by the artists;

• Enjoy movement practices that have evolved from the process;

• Collaborate in a future community creative visioning practice; All attendees can receive a discount code to upcoming performances at Presidio Theater Sept 24th @7pm and 25th @ 2pm.

ABOUT DANCING EARTH

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.

Founded by Artistic Director Rulan Tangen, to serve a need rarely met in the USA, DEC gives hope and opportunity to Native, mixed, global Indigenous and BIPOC talent who have been largely outside the dialogue of mainstream performance because of lack of access. DEC is an organic constellation of largely self-taught dancers, composers, costumers, filmmakers, and spoken word artists.

Together, DEC artists work with community members, culture carriers, and Native elders to explore the rich diversity of ancestral heritage, contemporary identity, and intra-cultural relationship building, by collaborating on innovative ecologically themed performances. DEC’s work promotes environmental awareness, cultural diversity, and understanding between peoples through contemporary arts expressions.

“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