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.