Movement of Dancing Earth
w/ Rulan Tangen
Sunday, October 18th
10-11:30am PDT . 1-2:30pm EDT
About THIS CLASS
This class invites people of all ages and abilities to deepen embodied knowledge. We start by orienting ourselves to our line sphere and by reconnecting with the world around us and within us, by inviting multi-sensory perception, intuition, memory, and imagination. Then we ground ourselves by articulating the spine and exploring how feet connect to earth with various rhythmic foot patterns, directions, coordination and level changes. We counterbalance movements of the lower body with the upper body, left with right, forward and backward, past and future, bringing movement to counter isolation and celebrate our collectivity! Playlist includes tracks by Navajo DJ Randy B, Ehren Kee Natay, AudioPharmacy, Cris Derksen, (enjoy and support their music at RandylBarton.com, EhrenKeeNatay.com, Audiopharmacy.com, Cris Derksen).
About DANCING EARTH
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.