Movement As Medicine
Dancing Earth's 2020 Online Summer Intensive
RSVP by JULY 10
About Pricing
$1500 - Full price and I would love to subsidize another participant
$750 - $250 per day, training 6 hr day, approx. $30 dollars per master class
$300 - $100 per day, training 6 hr days, $15 per master class
$150 - $50 per day, training 6 hr days $7.50 per master class
$75 - $25 per day, training 6 hr days, $3.25 per master class
About Dancing Earth
Visit Us: dancingearth.org
FB: @DancingEarthCreations
Instagram: @dancing.earth
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 MaM
This session is intended for people who love movement, culture, and nature and are not full time rigorous movement practitioners. Cultural protocols, cultural exchange, land dance training , restorative practices and a community engagement session to activate reciprocity.
People of all backgrounds, ages, and without extensive dance training are invited for People of all backgrounds, ages, and without extensive dance training are invited for a 3 day series ( held every other day) to renew body, mind, spirit, emotions, individual and collective imagination through the healing power of movement.Sessions will include multi-disciplinary expressions such as land dance, somatic healing practices, cultural exchange, re-story-ing of movement, with independent study exercises for the day off .
Together we will experience and recommit to the multi dimensional benefits of a daily movement practice, movement for making community, movement for Movement Building (for specific social change initiatives), and for reconnection for life forms beyond human.
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.