C5 Intensive :
Cultural Collaborative Cyberspace Content Creation
About Dancing Earth
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Dancing Earth Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations dynamically activates our mission to support Indigenous dance and related arts, to encourage and revitalize awareness of bio-cultural diversity through artistic expression, for the education and wellness of all peoples.
Dancing Earth has been named by Dance Magazine as “One of the Top 25 to Watch,” and are recipients of the National Museum of American Indian’s 2010 Expressive Arts Award. Dancing Earth recruits, cultivates, and creates opportunities for emerging global Indigenous talents in all aspects of artistic collaboration - including dance, choreography, music, costume, lighting, video, stage managing, and arts administration.
Dancing Earth gathers Indigenous collaborators, including: Nations of Blackfoot, Metis, Coushatta, Ixil and Tzeltil Maya, Papanga, Cambiva, Yaqui, Purepecha, Shoshone, Dine, Tsalagi, Hopi, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, and Keresan of North Central and South America. They balance a commitment to share dances with regional, national and international communities at venues as varied as festivals, Universities, elementary-high schools, Native wellness gatherings, youth leadership symposiums, art museums, desert canyons, dried river beds, and symposiums for social-environmental justice.
Dancing Earth inspires creativity and cultural consciousness through community art practice, energetic dance training workshops, site specific rituals and full length eco-productions.
About C5
This series welcomes people with performing arts background or strong interest , with pre-requisite of participation in full MOVEMENT AS MEDICINE series.
We will move into cultural creative content-making for camera, in response to surroundings and conditions. Creative expression will be as collective response to a theme, rooted in cultural/ecological understandings emerging from Movement as Medicine, with design specifically for DIY camera. We merge embodied ways of knowing with media technology experimentation for a vision of the future. The session will culminate in a recorded or live streamed outcome.
WHAT TO BRING
Each day to bring for their dinner, a meal that has a story
A quote, or several words that are your strength and inspiration (such as Compassion, Strength, etc.)
At least one ‘Icon' - such as image of artwork (bowl, weaving, beadwork, pattern, art piece, memento, photo, petroglyph, constellation, number, key, rock, writing etc ) that is meaningful/strengthening/inspiring to you, may represent what you come from - whether that means where, who, or a group you identify with as having shaped you, and/or your aspirations for the future
Water bottle, Notebook, bandanna, towel, comfortable clothes , blanket or yoga mat to lie down on.
A device with Zoom downloaded
Earphones (If you have them/ for occasional use)
Portable speaker (optional)
Enough space space to be able to lie down, and enough space to take 3 steps in every direction.
Optional yoga mat or blanket for floor work