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Restoring the Source : “MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION"  : The Integration
Mar
26
11:00 AM11:00

Restoring the Source : “MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION" : The Integration

  • ICS

Restoring the Source : “MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION”

The Integration

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

Sunday

March 26th, 2023

9-10:30am PT 10-11:30am MT

11-12:30pm CT 12-1:30pm 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, $1-$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

RESTORING THE SOURCE: MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION

This workshop series are offered as part of Restoring the Source series of seasonal ecological dance practice of Movement as Medicine shared by Dancing Earth’s Founding Artistic Director/Choreographer, Rulan Tangen and offered from a spirit of love and inclusivity. For this online spring series of Mixed-icim in Motion, Dancing Earth offers movement workshops timed near new moon and full moon.

This series of five workshops, in which the Artistic Director explores her emergent movement of MIXED-ICISM as the process for an itinerant body of work . The multi disciplinary, multi sensory, multi dimensional, mysterious and magical will center into the wisdom of the body and will also include writing and drawing . During this series we will experience

  • Embodiment of patterns of diverse life forms as relationships with beyond human being-ness , with observation ( bio-mimicry) , memory, and empathy

  • Love as experienced through connection via migration and exchange between human beings

  • Joy as experienced through compassion for self as fluid , complex, and ever evolving

  • Liminal space of dreaming and the unknown sources of imagination and intuition

  • Multi sensory synthesis , bit and pieces to become whole in a living eco system of immersive diversity

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 and Randi Lynn Beach

CLASS BREAKDOWN

  • 15 min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share.

  • 60 min 'Movement As Medicine' for all humans, regardless of dance background.

  • Final 15min Will be a group reflection circle about what is joyful, and 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 and Randi Lynn Beach

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Choreographer Spotlight Class  with Rulan Tangen ODC SF
Mar
11
4:30 PM16:30

Choreographer Spotlight Class with Rulan Tangen ODC SF

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Choreographer Spotlight Class

with Rulan Tangen

Saturday, March 11th 2023

2:30- 4pm PT

DANCING EARTH

We’re excited to announce on March 11th, Rulan Tangen, Artistic Director for Dancing Earth Creations will be teaching "MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION", a new creative offering through ODC School's Choreographer Spotlight series. This class explores pace, rhythms, and imagery informed by elements, to embodying of patterns of diverse life forms to deepen relationships beyond human being-ness: with observation (bio-mimicry), memory, and empathy, for deeper connections, @odcsf

Register for this series here: https://odc.dance/schedule.

Choreographer Spotlight

Description of the class: MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION

  • Exploring pace, rhythms, and imagery informed by elements, to embodying of patterns of diverse life forms to deepen relationships beyond human being-ness: with observation

    ( bio-mimicry), memory, and empathy, for deeper connections

  • Immersing in forms and movements that carry intention, explicitly or in symbolic code

  • Bringing all of our bits and pieces to become whole, as a living part of a sacred eco-system of immersive diversity

I offer this movement with humble respect to Ohlone peoples who have kept this land of Yelamu in renewal with song and dance since the beginning of time ( I share links of folx I am in relation with, to learn more about good work of resilience by living cultural people of this region.

https://www.ramaytush.org/about.html

https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/

https://indiancanyonlife.org/

Description of Upcoming Work
“RITUAL OF RE:MIX, An Eco-Elegy”
Re-MIx explores the concept of mixed identity as a template for relation-building and adaptation in the age of climate crisis. Stemming from our body’s community-engaged knowledge-sourcing, we will develop a contemporary ritual beyond the proscenium stage, with “mixed” collaborators. Through corporeal experiences to explore our “mixed-icism” : many identity definitions will be deconstructed and expanded to cultivate a nuanced alternative to dehumanizing, essentializing, and compartmentalizing - within the living metaphor of ecological diversity as the source. Choreographically, this “re-mix” is rooted in Dancing Earth’s land-dance practice, uncovering specific forms of movement that are guided by forces of nature, emerging liminal spaces of alchemy for transformation. The performance ritual will be at the center of an offering that includes artists facilitating a multi-sensory, multi dimension, experience for community, to activate space with love, pleasure, joy, and wellness.

ONGOING CALL FOR CREATIVES (“AUDITION” ) takes the form of connecting with intriguing movers this spring, via expressions of mutual interest, invitations to respond to a writing and video request, and/or participation in Summer Intensive June 1-12 at Cal State East Bay with international cultural artist ambassadors. Artists are paid for their work because I believe our work together is world-changing. This could be a good fit for those who

  • feel called by their intuition to the concept of “mixed-icism”,

  • who are involved in eco-oriented practices ( herbalists, hikers, tree huggers, seed planters, etc!)

  • who have a commitment to an embodied practice as a significant aspect of their lives ( not necessarily studio based )

  • Who are interested in creating in many conditions: indoor, outdoor, self-directed, online, interdisciplinary

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 the 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

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.

Photos: Joe McNally and Sunny Khalsa

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.

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Restoring the Source : “MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION"  The Liminal Space
Mar
5
11:00 AM11:00

Restoring the Source : “MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION" The Liminal Space

  • ICS

Restoring the Source : “MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION”

The Liminal Space

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

Sunday, March 5th 2023

9-10:30am PT . 10-11:30am MT .

11-12:30pm CT . 12-1:30pm 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, $1-$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

RESTORING THE SOURCE: MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION

This workshop series are offered as part of Restoring the Source series of seasonal ecological dance practice of Movement as Medicine shared by Dancing Earth’s Founding Artistic Director/Choreographer, Rulan Tangen and offered from a spirit of love and inclusivity . For the Winter series of Mixed-icim in Motion, Dancing Earth offers movement workshops timed near new moon and full moon.

This series of five workshops, in which the Artistic Director explores her emergent movement of MIXED-ICISM as the process for an itinerant body of work . The multi disciplinary, multi sensory, multi dimensional, mysterious and magical will center into the wisdom of the body and will also include writing and drawing . During this series we will experience

  • Embodiment of patterns of diverse life forms as relationships with beyond human being-ness , with observation ( bio-mimicry) , memory, and empathy

  • Love as experienced through connection via migration and exchange between human beings

  • Joy as experienced through compassion for self as fluid , complex, and ever evolving

  • Liminal space of dreaming and the unknown sources of imagination and intuition

  • Multi sensory synthesis , bit and pieces to become whole in a living eco system of immersive diversity

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 Paulo T Photography

CLASS BREAKDOWN

  • 7 min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share.

  • 51 min 'Movement As Medicine' for all humans, regardless of dance background.

  • Final 7min 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 Paulo T Photography

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Restoring the Source : “MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION"  The Elemental
Feb
19
11:00 AM11:00

Restoring the Source : “MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION" The Elemental

  • ICS

Restoring the Source : “MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION”

The Elemental

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

Sunday, Feb. 19th 2023

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, $1-$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

RESTORING THE SOURCE: MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION

This workshop series are offered as part of Restoring the Source series of seasonal ecological dance practice of Movement as Medicine shared by Dancing Earth’s Founding Artistic Director/Choreographer, Rulan Tangen and offered from a spirit of love and inclusivity . For the Winter series of Mixed-icim in Motion, Dancing Earth offers movement workshops timed near new moon and full moon.

This series of five workshops, in which the Artistic Director explores her emergent movement of MIXED-ICISM as the process for an itinerant body of work . The multi disciplinary, multi sensory, multi dimensional, mysterious and magical will center into the wisdom of the body and will also include writing and drawing . During this series we will experience

  • Embodiment of patterns of diverse life forms as relationships with beyond human being-ness , with observation ( bio-mimicry) , memory, and empathy

  • Love as experienced through connection via migration and exchange between human beings

  • Joy as experienced through compassion for self as fluid , complex, and ever evolving

  • Liminal space of dreaming and the unknown sources of imagination and intuition

  • Multi sensory synthesis , bit and pieces to become whole in a living eco system of immersive diversity

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 Paulo T Photography

CLASS BREAKDOWN

  • 7 min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share.

  • 51 min 'Movement As Medicine' for all humans, regardless of dance background.

  • Final 7min 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 Paulo T Photography

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Restoring the Source : “MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION"
Feb
5
5:00 PM17:00

Restoring the Source : “MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION"

  • ICS

Restoring the Source : “MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION”

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

Sunday, Feb 5th, 2023

*Note: Time change of AFTERNOON

2pm PT . 3pm MT . 4pm CT . 5pm ET

Feb 6th 11 am in New Zealand

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, $1-$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

RESTORING THE SOURCE: MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION

The Inter-cultural

This workshop series are offered as part of Restoring the Source series of seasonal ecological dance practice of Movement as Medicine shared by Dancing Earth’s Founding Artistic Director/Choreographer, Rulan Tangen and offered from a spirit of love and inclusivity . For the Winter series of Mixed-icim in Motion, Dancing Earth offers movement workshops timed near new moon and full moon.

This movement session is collaboratively led by JADE WHAANGA Dancing Earth alumna and international Indigenous Cultural Ambassador, and leader of NU Collective from Aotearoa ( New Zealand)

She is a Dancing Earth international cultural artist ambassador for the past 7 years. She joins us from intense rain and floodwaters, bringing movement teachings of fire and clay; to experience the diversity of the ecosystem within the body, through her lived cultural experience and creative expression … We welcome friends to come and share their love and generosity, for this international intercultural offering! sharing movement of clay ( within the Dancing Earth mixed-icism vision) ... intercultural relations.

This series of five workshops, in which the Artistic Director explores her emergent movement of MIXED-ICISM as the process for an itinerant body of work . The multi disciplinary, multi sensory, multi dimensional, mysterious and magical will center into the wisdom of the body and will also include writing and drawing . During this series we will experience

  • Embodiment of patterns of diverse life forms as relationships with beyond human being-ness , with observation ( bio-mimicry) , memory, and empathy

  • Love as experienced through connection via migration and exchange between human beings

  • Joy as experienced through compassion for self as fluid , complex, and ever evolving

  • Liminal space of dreaming and the unknown sources of imagination and intuition

  • Multi sensory synthesis , bit and pieces to become whole in a living eco system of immersive diversity


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 Paulo T Photography

CLASS BREAKDOWN

  • 7 min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share.

  • 51 min 'Movement As Medicine' for all humans, regardless of dance background.

  • Final 7min 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 Paulo T Photography

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Restoring the Source : “MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION"
Jan
22
11:00 AM11:00

Restoring the Source : “MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION"

  • ICS

Restoring the Source : “MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION”

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

Sunday, January 22nd 2023

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, $1-$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

RESTORING THE SOURCE: MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION

This workshop series are offered as part of Restoring the Source series of seasonal ecological dance practice of Movement as Medicine shared by Dancing Earth’s Founding Artistic Director/Choreographer, Rulan Tangen and offered from a spirit of love and inclusivity . For the Winter series of Mixed-icim in Motion, Dancing Earth offers movement workshops timed near new moon and full moon.

This series of five workshops, in which the Artistic Director explores her emergent movement of MIXED-ICISM as the process for an itinerant body of work . The multi disciplinary, multi sensory, multi dimensional, mysterious and magical will center into the wisdom of the body and will also include writing and drawing . During this series we will experience

  • Embodiment of patterns of diverse life forms as relationships with beyond human being-ness , with observation ( bio-mimicry) , memory, and empathy

  • Love as experienced through connection via migration and exchange between human beings

  • Joy as experienced through compassion for self as fluid , complex, and ever evolving

  • Liminal space of dreaming and the unknown sources of imagination and intuition

  • Multi sensory synthesis , bit and pieces to become whole in a living eco system of immersive diversity

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 Paulo T Photography

CLASS BREAKDOWN

  • 7 min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share.

  • 51 min 'Movement As Medicine' for all humans, regardless of dance background.

  • Final 7min 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 Paulo T Photography

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Restoring The Source: Movement as Medicine
Dec
4
11:00 AM11:00

Restoring The Source: Movement as Medicine

  • ICS

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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Danza Ofrenda: Contemporary Dance Performance Ritual Solo w Rulan Tangen
Nov
20
5:30 PM17:30

Danza Ofrenda: Contemporary Dance Performance Ritual Solo w Rulan Tangen

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Danza Ofrenda : Un Tiempo de Otoño, en la Tierra de los Otomíes

Contemporary Dance Performance Ritual Solo w Rulan Tangen

Sunday, November 20th, 2022

2:30-4pm PT . 3:30-5pm MT

4:30-6pm CT . 5:30-7pm 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, $1-$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.

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

Danza Ofrenda : Un Tiempo de Otoño, en la Tierra de los Otomíes

Contemporary Dance Performance Ritual Solo w Rulan Tangen

Join me for a  ritual of embodiment, of movement that roots into the present as both ancient and futuristic, a reflection of relationship with a moment of time, and place.

I offer this response to time and place with humbleness, respect and gratitude to the invitation for a 3 week artistic residency as a culminating ritual that is emergent, an evolving work in progress like life, with the intention of cultivating connections through creation and collaboration.

On the first night, the importance of the Mezquite trees was shared with me and I dedicate this dance solo ritual to these tree beings, for their ancestral relationship to human being-ness, as an embodied dream for the future of their beingness in renewed and revitalized relationship .

(thankful to Yolitzma for the wisdom shared )

Please click here to learn more about the wisdom of the trees

For your own participation as a witness to this offering, we invite you to bring your dreams for the future, to consider what are we collectively nourishing for our lives and others yet to come, to bring into the space to be activated through embodiment by the artist.

ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS: To experience movement interactively , the morning before the performance Sunday Nov 20, Rulan will offer a live and virtual workshop of restorative movement as medicine , information will be posted soon on www.dancingearth.org/event

Acompáñame en un ritual de encarnación, de movimiento que se enraíza en el presente como algo antiguo y futurista a la vez, un reflejo de la relación con un momento del tiempo, y del lugar.

Ofrezco esta respuesta al tiempo y al lugar con humildad, respeto y gratitud a la invitación para una residencia artística de 3 semanas como un ritual culminante que es emergente, un trabajo en progreso como la vida, con la intención de cultivar conexiones a través de la creación y la colaboración.

En la primera noche, se compartió conmigo la importancia de los árboles de mezquite y dedico este ritual de danza en solitario a estos seres arbóreos, por su relación ancestral con el ser humano, como un sueño encarnado para el futuro de su ser en una relación renovada y revitalizada.

(gracias a Yolitzma por la sabiduría compartida)

Para tu propia participación como testigo de esta ofrenda, te invitamos a traer tus sueños para el futuro, a considerar lo que estamos alimentando colectivamente para nuestras vidas y las de otros por venir, para traer al espacio para ser activado a través de la encarnación por el artista.

OFERTAS ADICIONALES: Para experimentar el movimiento de forma interactiva, la mañana antes de la actuación del domingo 20 de noviembre, Rulan ofrecerá un taller en vivo y virtual de movimiento restaurativo como medicina, la información se publicará pronto en www.dancingearth.org/event

Click here For more about Rulan

Click here for more about Dancing Earth

Special thanks to Mariana and Ethan for selection for this residency and to DANCING EARTH

"Vengo a esta tierra con respeto, maravillado por toda la creatividad y la belleza, seguramente enraizadas en la vitalidad de la resiliencia frente al dolor de la colonización, del pueblo otomí que ha cantado y bailado esta tierra desde el principio de los tiempos. Humildemente ofrezco esta danza como un ritual contemporáneo para este momento y lugar, en honor al árbol de Mezquite."

"I come to this land with respect, in wonder of all the creativity and beauty, surely rooted in the vitality of resilience against the pain of colonization, of the Otomi people who have sung and danced this land into being since the beginning of time. I humbly offer this dance as a contemporary ritual for this moment and place, to honor the Mesquite tree ." Rulan Tangen

Photos by Daniel Quat

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Restoring The Source: Movement as Medicine  Nov 20th
Nov
20
10:00 AM10:00

Restoring The Source: Movement as Medicine Nov 20th

  • ICS

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, November 20th, 2022

7-8am PT . 8-9am MT

9-10am CT . 10-11am 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, $1-$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.

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

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!

This movement session is coming from the Otomi homelands, in dedication to the plant and tree - beings, in their generosity and regeneration. Through movement of our individual and collective bodies, we will explore :

  • Embodiment of patterns of movement of plants and trees as relationship and gratitude.

  • Dreamscape and landscape as sources of imagination and intuition.

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

*Please note earlier time this week only

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

  • 7 min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share quotes.

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

  • Final 7 min 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

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Restoring The Source: Movement as Medicine
Nov
6
11:00 AM11:00

Restoring The Source: Movement as Medicine

  • ICS

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, November 6th, 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!

Our first session of Autumn/Winter comes during the Taurus full moon of Scorpio season. Combining these constellatory influences we will find space to flow with the breath of life at the edge of symbolic death with the moon cycle.

Explore restorative gentle sensuous movements:

  • to release what is no longer needed

  • to find space for flow + gratitude

  • connect deeper to imagination, intuition and joy

  • embody compassion and connection

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

  • 5 min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share quotes.

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

  • 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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Movement and Sound as Medicine : Live music special event
May
22
11:00 AM11:00

Movement and Sound as Medicine : Live music special event

  • ICS

Spring is blossoming !

To celebrate the awakening earth , Movement as Medicine offers a very special event on May 22 , last quarter moon, celebrating collaboration of music and dance which are central to ancestral and futurist rituals of intention, as well as the power of weaving together of international cultures which every one of you is a part !

A hybrid mini performance with ritual demonstration and a bilingual experiential workshop of sound and movement,  we experience  the blossoming of joy , pleasure, and the power of creation with our individual and collective bodies . Movement will be developed from the powerful anthem :

“ SOMOS DE AGUA , SOMOS DE MAIZ “   composed by Gailor Andres for the amazing SIE Artistic Residence in Bogota in April 2022 , as produced by Coop Danza, featuring theater students, displaced Indigenous community members, and Afro-Colombian representatives . 

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 very special event. We invite your courage, creativity, compassion, care and welcome you to bring a friend, especially if you have a friend who speaks Spanish so you can enjoy this inter-cultural experience together !

CLASS BREAKDOWN

  • 10 min Welcomes, intention, orientation

  •  5 min presentation of the featured artists

  • 60 min ‘Movement and Sound as Medicine’ , participatory for all humans

  • 10 min Question and Answer session with the featured artists 

  • 5 min Group reflection circle about what is joyful, challenging, and what transformed during our time together

 ACCESSIBILITY

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

BRING

  • Open mindedness, no dance/music  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

  • Access to chair

PAY WHAT YOU CAN

And, all donations will be supporting the participation of under-resourced candidates for our Summer Institute, and the development of new ecologically themed creative work by 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 Artistic  Director, Rulan Tangen

Movement and Sound as Medicine : w/ Rulan Tangen and Gailor Sanchez

May 22nd

8-9:30am PT . 9-10:30am MT . 10-11:30am CT . 11-12:30pm ET

¡La primavera está floreciendo! Para celebrar el despertar de la tierra, el Movimiento como Medicina ofrece un evento muy especial el 22 de mayo, último cuarto de luna, que celebra la colaboración de la música y la danza, que son fundamentales para los rituales de intención ancestrales y futuristas, así como el poder de tejer juntos de las culturas internacionales, del cual todos y cada uno de ustedes son parte !

Este taller especial se lleva a cabo en tierras zapotecas de Oaxaca con participantes en vivo y en línea, y presenta a Rulan, creadora de Dancing Earth, con el músico colombiano y portador de cultura Gailor Andrés Sánchez de tierras muiscas.

Un híbrido de demostración de mini performance ritual y un taller experiencial bilingüe de sonido y movimiento, experimentamos el florecimiento de la alegría, el placer y el poder de la creación con nuestros cuerpos individuales y colectivos. El movimiento se desarrollará a partir del poderoso himno:

“SOMOS DE AGUA, SOMOS DE MAIZ” compuesta por Gailor Andres para la increíble Residencia Artística SIE en Bogotá en abril de 2022, producida por Coop Danza, con estudiantes de teatro, miembros de comunidades indígenas desplazadas y representantes afro-colombianos.

Extendemos esta invitación especial a aquellos que se unieron o expresaron interés en sesiones de movimiento en el último año, para unirse al evento muy especial de este mes. Invitamos su coraje, creatividad, compasión y cuidado, y lo invitamos a traer a un amigo, especialmente si tiene un amigo que habla español para que puedan disfrutar juntos de esta experiencia intercultural.

DESGLOSE DE CLASES

  • 10 min Bienvenida, intención, orientación

  • Presentación de 5 min de los artistas destacados

  • 60 min ‘Movimiento y Sonido como Medicina’, participativo para todos los humanos

  • Sesión de preguntas y respuestas de 10 minutos con los artistas destacados

  • 5 min Círculo de reflexión grupal sobre lo que es alegre, desafiante y lo que transformó durante nuestro tiempo juntos

ACCESIBILIDAD

Los movimientos y la participación del sonido se pueden modificar incluso para acostarse en la cama y escuchar, ¡imaginar es un "movimiento" poderoso!

TRAER

  • Mente abierta, no se necesita experiencia en danza/música

  • Capas de ropa para el calor y la comodidad y capaz de moverse

  • Descalzo o con calcetines

  • Manta o colchoneta de yoga

  • Botella de agua

  • Cuaderno y lápiz/bolígrafo

  • Acceso a la silla

PAGA LO QUE PUEDES

Y, todas las donaciones apoyarán la participación de candidatos de escasos recursos para nuestro Instituto de Verano, y el desarrollo de un nuevo trabajo creativo con temas ecológicos por parte de Dancing Earth

Gailor Sanchez is a musician and dancer from the 'Palenque de Delia Zapata' in Bogota, musician and dancer from the 'Teatro Danza Pies del Sol' in Nariño and Bogota and director of the musical group 'Tribuleria Folklore Fusión' from Funza, Cundinamarca .

Some recent participations to highlight: SIE Festival 2022, Gala of the inauguration of the first Indigenous dance and media arts festival 2022 at the Planetarium of Bogota. Premiere Artistic Residency within the SIE Festival at the Teatro el Ensueño in Bogota.

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MARCH  Movement as Medicine : MIDWINTER SERIES Waning Moon
Mar
27
11:00 AM11:00

MARCH Movement as Medicine : MIDWINTER SERIES Waning Moon

  • ICS

Movement as Medicine : MIDWINTER SERIES w/ Rulan Tangen

March 27

9-10:15am PT . 10-11:15am MT . 11-12:15pm CT . 12-1:15pm 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

ABOUT

For midwinter series of Movement as Medicine, Dancing Earth offer four sessions in both February and March, timed near half moon, full moon, waxing moon, and waning moon.

During these four 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!

With the waning moon near equinox , we experience the balance of light and dark, release to make room for the next season of the Flowering Way

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!

CLASS BREAKDOWN

  • 10min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share quotes from Dr. MLK Jr. that you bring.

  • 55min 'Movement as Medicine' for all humans, regardless of dance background.

  • Final 10min 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

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MARCH Movement as Medicine : MIDWINTER SERIES , Waxing Moon
Mar
13
11:00 AM11:00

MARCH Movement as Medicine : MIDWINTER SERIES , Waxing Moon

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Movement as Medicine : MIDWINTER SERIES w/ Rulan Tangen

March 13 & 27

9-10:15am PT . 10-11:15am MT . 11-12:15pm CT . 12-1:15pm 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

  • ABOUT

For midwinter series of Movement as Medicine, Dancing Earth offer four sessions in both February and March, timed near half moon, full moon, waxing moon, and waning moon.

During these four 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!

At the waxing moon we move towards growth, and increasing illumination of what we are dreaming in …

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!

CLASS BREAKDOWN

10min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share quotes.

55min 'Movement as Medicine' for all humans, regardless of dance background.

Final 10min 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

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FEBRUARY Movement as Medicine : MIDWINTER SERIES, Full Moon
Feb
20
11:00 AM11:00

FEBRUARY Movement as Medicine : MIDWINTER SERIES, Full Moon

  • ICS

Movement as Medicine : MIDWINTER SERIES w/ Rulan Tangen

Sundays, February 6, 20 AND March 13 & 27

9-10:15am PT . 10-11:15am MT . 11-12:15pm CT . 12-1:15pm 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

ABOUT

For midwinter series of Movement as Medicine, Dancing Earth offer four sessions in both February and March, timed near half moon, full moon, waxing moon, and waning moon.

During these four 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!

Near the full moon we dance our gratitude …

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!

CLASS BREAKDOWN

  • 10 min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share quotes from Dr. MLK Jr. that you bring.

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

  • Final 10 min 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

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Meet the Company , Thursday February 17th
Feb
17
7:30 PM19:30

Meet the Company , Thursday February 17th

  • ICS

MEET THE COMPANY !

Thursday, February 17th

5:30-6:30 PT . 6:30-7:30pm MT . 7:30-8:30 CT . 8:30-9:30 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

ABOUT

Greetings to the Dancing Earth Circle and beyond!

Dancing Earth Creations is now 18 years old ! We are an exciting emergent transformation as we move into cooperative responsibility in leadership. We are refreshing our mission and vision for relevance to move forward into the future with inclusivity, welcome, and love!

This is our inaugural Community Relations event, to be held on the Third Thursday of every month through June. We will start online and look forward to moving into options of in-person in Albuquerque!

We've invited our Southwest, regional, national and international associate artists to each share an introduction and a movement ( you can experience as participatory or as an informal performance ! )

And yes, will end with a dance party!

WHAT TO BRING

A wish for the future of DE, whether it be a single word, a quality , or a dream for program or project you hope to experience in the future !

Water bottle, celebratory ( or comfortable !) clothes, blanket or yoga mat to lie down on. if you like List to be refined closer to the time!

PRICING

This event is open to the public. Bring a friend!

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FEBRUARY Movement as Medicine : MIDWINTER SERIES, Half Moon
Feb
6
11:00 AM11:00

FEBRUARY Movement as Medicine : MIDWINTER SERIES, Half Moon

  • ICS

Movement as Medicine : MIDWINTER SERIES w/ Rulan Tangen

Sundays, February 6 & 20 AND
March 13 & 27

9-10:15am PT . 10-11:15am MT . 11-12:15pm CT . 12-1:15pm 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

ABOUT FEB. 6th, HALF MOON

For midwinter series of Movement as Medicine, Dancing Earth offer four sessions in both February and March, timed near half moon, full moon, waxing moon, and waning moon.

During these four 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!

With the half moon we balance between what is seen and unseen… This session will involve a lot of groundwork, lying down, seated on floor, or could be adapted to sitting in chair.

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!

CLASS BREAKDOWN

  • 10min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share quotes.

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

  • Final 10min 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

    THIS HALF MOON CLASS WILL INVOLVE ALOT OF GROUNDWORK ON THE FLOOR, AND I INVITE YOU TO BRING STONES / ROCKS / CRYSTALS FOR THE GROUNDING BREATH EXERCISE

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Movement of Dancing Earth w/ Rulan Tangen
Nov
15
12:00 PM12:00

Movement of Dancing Earth w/ Rulan Tangen

  • ICS

Movement of Dancing Earth w/ Rulan Tangen

Sunday, November 15th
10-11:30am PST . 1-2:30pm EST


Reserve Your Tickets

Pay what you can to:
PayPal:
Rulan@dancingearth.org


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).

photo by pauloT.

photo by pauloT.

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.

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PPAK: Traditional Pueblo Bread Making w/ Sage Romero
Nov
10
6:00 PM18:00

PPAK: Traditional Pueblo Bread Making w/ Sage Romero

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PPAK: Traditional Pueblo Bread Making
w/ Sage Romero

 
Demonstration and cultural talk of Pueblo Bread Making in a traditional horno.

Demonstration and cultural talk of Pueblo Bread Making in a traditional horno.

 

PPAK: Traditional Pueblo Bread Making
w/ Sage Romero

Tuesday, November 10th
4-5:30pm PST . 7-8:30pm EST

Join Sage Romero on ZOOM HERE
Meeting ID:
881 4340 1275
Passcode: 911805


About THIS CLASS

In this class Sage will lead you through the process of making Pueblo Bread in his home built Ah-cutoo, handmade earthen oven, (also known as horno). This cultural presentation will also cover traditional language names of Taos people and the stories of the histories of bread making.

About SAGE

Sage Romero is a member of the Tovowahamatu Nuumu/Tuah-Tahi (Big Pine Paiute/Taos Pueblo) tribes. He is the Founder of the AkaMya Culture Group based in Big Pine, CA. Sage Romero is also an accomplished International Cultural consultant, having traveled extensively educating people about Native America/Indigenous American Heritage and Culture dispelling typical stereotypes. Sage also worked as a youth advocate for many years with focus on sobriety and wellness through living culture, dance, Storytelling and cultural practices to promote strength through culture and identity.

 

DONATIONS GREATLY APPRECIATED

Suggested donation $1-$100. Donations go to support Sage in his cultural work his non-profit AkaMya. AkaMya is a non-profit organization focused on wellness through traditional song, dance, sobriety, and Multimedia.

NO ONE TURNED AWAY
FOR LACK OF FUNDS

If you come from a financially marginalized background, and/or your finances have been devastated by Covid, and you are not able to pay or need to pay an amount less than listed ticket prices, please contact tisinat.dancingearth@gmail.com. Dancing Earth supports Indigenous & diverse community members to connect with, share & learn ancestral teachings, culture & roots. Dancing Earth welcomes community members of all ages, and cultural backgrounds.

About PUEBLO BREAD

Tuah-Tahi is the Tahi (Taos) word for Red Willow People. Made from white flour, enriched with a little butter or lard, and flavored with a pinch of salt, this moist, puffy bread starts out as a large domed loaf that’s often split into a variety of small sections before baking. It’s traditionally, but not exclusively, cooked in an outdoor beehive-shaped clay oven known as an Ah-cutoo or oven also known as an horno.

While a quintessential and beloved food item for many Native peoples across the Southwest, pueblo bread’s history reflects the Euro-American settler colonialism in this region. Prior to European colonization, Pueblo bakers did not use wheat flour, instead using coarse meals of corn, nuts, or beans. The Spanish introduced both wheat and the squat adobe Ah-cutoo (oven) to the area. Similar to other colonially-influenced Native foods such as fry bread, this legacy can render some Native people’s relationships to pueblo bread affectionate yet complex. Yet the Ah-cutoo themselves reveal an even more layered colonial history: The Moors actually originally brought them to Spain during their several-century rule of the Iberian peninsula, forging a distant culinary link between North Africa and New Mexico.

While some lament the decline in traditional oven use, for many Pueblo bakers, firing up the Ah-cutoo to make massive batches of bread for family, feasts, or the market remains a living tradition. Bakers bank their Ah-cutoo fires with cedar. The wood burns slow and fragrant, and bakers adjust the cedar ashes to regulate the temperature to give their loaves the perfect crisp. To test if the oven is ready, they scatter oats into the hot Ah-cutoo. If these oats burn, bakers can remove ashes to cool the oven; if they brown, the oven is ready. Experienced bakers don’t need a timer, but know by feel and smell when the bread is done. Fresh from the oven, the loaves’ warm, spongy insides make a perfect accompaniment to a bowl of savory chile pozole or a thick bean stew.* Source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/pueblo-bread *


About PPAK: Practicing Principals of Ancestral Knowledge

PPAK is a sustainability and life ways series that follows traditional Indigenous teachings and practices. These workshops are aimed to connect people back to living in balance with the Earth through traditional living practices of Native people. As all Indigenous cultures historically lived in balance with the cycles of nature, PPAK instructional series will incorporate these ways into contemporary teachings, demonstrations and Indigenous philosophy taught by Native community members and practitioners who have learned skills from Native elders.

About 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.

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PPAK: Fire Making w/ a Hand Drill w/ Mother Nature Center & Ibrahim Loeks, hosted by Dancing Earth
Nov
9
7:00 PM19:00

PPAK: Fire Making w/ a Hand Drill w/ Mother Nature Center & Ibrahim Loeks, hosted by Dancing Earth

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Fire Making w/ a Hand Drill

With Mother Nature Center & Ibrahim Loeks

Fire Making w/ a Hand Drill

With Mother Nature Center & Ibrahim Loeks


Monday, November 9th
6-7:30pm PDT . 9-10:30pm EDT

Join Ibrahim Loeks on ZOOM HERE
Meeting ID:
876 1730 3916
Passcode:
90848


ABOUT THIS CLASS

MAKING FIRE: Friction Fire Making practiced by almost all peoples in almost all environments of the world. From the Bow Drill to the Hand Drill, the Fire Saw to the Fire Plough. In this class we will focus on dialing in your Bow Drill skills and briefly touch in on and demonstrate other techniques.

Learn how to make fire using collected materials and made fire kits. Using a hand drill is one of the simplest friction methods, but high speed can be difficult to maintain because only the hands are used to rotate the spindle. It works best in dry climates.

PRE-ORDER YOUR FIRE KITS

This class can be done with or without pre-ordered fire kits. Kits are $40 included shipping any where in the US. Kits need to be ordered by Aug 17th in order to arrive to you in time for the class.

Kits are not required for sign up to this class session, if you do not pre-order a fire kit, you can still just watch the instructional information. When you select the pre-order kit ticket Dancing Earth will contact you for your mailing address. All kits will be mailed out by facilitator Ibrahim Loeks & Mother Nature Center.

PRE-ORDER KITS INCLUDE

Kits include a Wooden Fire Board, Wooden Bow Drill w/ Nylon Cord, Wooden Spindle & kindling.

 

NO ONE TURNED AWAY
FOR LACK OF FUNDS

If you come from a financially marginalized background, and/or your finances have been devastated by Covid, and you are not able to pay or need to pay an amount less than listed ticket prices, please contact tisinat.dancingearth@gmail.com. Dancing Earth supports Indigenous & diverse community members to connect with, share & learn ancestral teachings, culture & roots. Dancing Earth welcomes community members of all ages, and cultural backgrounds.

photos by Louise Lodigensky


About PPAKPracticing Principals of Ancestral Knowledge

PPAK is a sustainability and life ways series that follows traditional Indigenous teachings and practices. These workshops are aimed to connect people back to living in balance with the Earth through traditional living practices of Native people. As all Indigenous cultures historically lived in balance with the cycles of nature, PPAK instructional series will incorporate these ways into contemporary teachings, demonstrations and Indigenous philosophy taught by Native community members and practitioners who have learned skills from Native elders.

ABOUT 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.

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Movement of Dancing Earth w/ Rulan Tangen
Oct
18
12:00 PM12:00

Movement of Dancing Earth w/ Rulan Tangen

  • ICS

Movement of Dancing Earth
w/ Rulan Tangen

Sunday, October 18th
10-11:30am PDT . 1-2:30pm EDT

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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.

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