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Restoring The Source: Movement as Medicine

Restoring The Source: Movement as Medicine

Seasonal ecological dance practice of Movement as Medicine shared by Dancing Earth’s Founding Artistic Director/Choreographer, Rulan Tangen.

Sunday, December 4th, 2022

9-10am PT . 10-11am MT . 11-12pm CT . 12-1pm ET

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.

“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

Pay What You Can, $0-$100

In the spirit of RECIPROCITY (a value infused into the movement practice), we invite your charitable donations to support the ongoing programming of Dancing Earth. Nobody is turned away for lack of funds! Sign-up with a Complimentary Ticket or Pay it Forward by sponsoring the costs for someone who has limited resources.

Artistic Director Rulan Tangen donates the fees raised from the workshop back to Dancing Earth, the great vision of her life.

ABOUT Movement As Medicine

For this seasonal series of Movement as Medicine, Dancing Earth offers movement workshops timed near half moon, full moon. During these sessions, we will reach through our individual and collective bodies, exploring dreamscape and landscape, shape and movement that connect us with various life forms impacted by the moon : plants, waters, animals, birds, and humanity - in a myriad of different forms!

Dancing Earth invites humans of the earth to gather and move together for the last class of the year as we move towards Winter Solstice, embracing the long nights of dreaming and the incumbent return of light. We will synthesize of many of the previous seasons classes with movement expressions of THE ELEMENTAL BODY

Through movement of our individual and collective bodies, we will explore :

  • Embodiment of patterns of movement of earth and cosmos as relationship and gratitude

  • Dreamscape and landscape as sources of imagination and intuition

  • Love and joy as through connection, compassion, empathy with human and beyond-human beings

  • Experience gratitude and reciprocity through movement , encouraging the body at this time towards rest and dreaming and warmth

Specifically :

This Sunday, day of sun, dia del sol, day of soul, WE CELEBRATE THE ELEMENTAL BODY. Our movement will reconnect us with elements including :

  • Air as breath of life and motivator movement

  • Ground under our feet and expressions of earth in form of skin and muscle

  • Water as flow through channels of body including veins and arteries and rivers

  • Constellations as energetic charge of light and heat experienced through limbs and edges of body

  • Mountains and rocks within bones as grounding points

  • Seeds of potentiality and transformation within soft organs, vitalizing torso as trunk and stem of plants and trees

  • Integrating these elements for activation of various spheres and dimensions

  • Re-mix of all these elements and worlds into a world of ‘mixed-icism

We extend this special invite to those who have joined or expressed interest in movement sessions in the past year, to join this month’s movement, with Creatrix and Dreamvisioner Rulan Tangen. We invite your courage, creativity, compassion and care - and welcome you to bring a friend!

Photos by Daniel Quat

CLASS BREAKDOWN

  • 5min ' Welcome, intention, orientation, and invitation to share.

  • 30 min 'Movement as Medicine' for all humans, regardless of dance background.

  • 15mins' More challenging movement which can be adapted as needed by participant

  • 5mins ' Cool down/stretch

  • Final 5min 'Will be a group reflection circle about what is joyful, challenging, and what transformed during our time together.

ACCESSIBILITY

  • Movements can be modified to even lying down on bed and listening, imagining is a powerful ‘movement’!

BRING

  • Open mindedness, no dance experience necessary

  • Layers of clothing for warmth and comfort and able to move

  • Barefoot or socks

  • Blanket or yoga mat

  • Water bottle

  • Notebook and pencil/pen

Dancing Earth self produces and collaborates with partners for a wide range of creative programming including:

  • Dance programming for youth

  • Cultivating Artist Leadership : mentoring in arts management

  • Seasonal Institutes for Dancing Earth intensive movement training

  • Restoring the Source Retreats

  • Cultural Exchanges

  • Creation of original Dance works, with costumes, music, video projection, visual art design and construction with sets and props

  • Cinematic Movement : Dance on Film

  • Choreography commissioned by schools, companies or collaborators

We thank you for your consideration and support of our Dancing Earth vision.

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.

Photos by Daniel Quat

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