Utah University, "Between Underground & Skyworld is going virtual!"
Visual by Carolina Azteca Sirias for Dancing Earth
photo by Pam Taylor Photography
BTW US Cyberspace creates an exciting new vision for what online performance can be. Now reimagined as an interactive mini-series of dynamic episodes, the story will culminate in a live, virtual performance followed by an interactive Reflection Pool with the dancers on November 20th.
Created and performed by the next generation of Indigenous superheroes, Dancing Earth fuses tradition with technology, exploring themes of repetition and renewal, finding healing, and remembering ancestral knowledge.
Reserve your spot early for access to exclusive content and behind-the-scenes footage from the company leading up to the performance.
BTW US Cyberspace
November 10-20th
TICKETS
For this virtual performance, UtahPresents’ is offering a range of prices for their patrons. Please consider how many people will be watching with you, and opt to purchase a higher price if possible to account for additional viewers. This will support UtahPresents’ mission to continue bringing our patrons exciting live performance in both virtual and, when possible, safe in-person gatherings.
Student pricing:
$5 for U of U students with U ID (enter Unid at purchase)
$10 Other students/youth (enter school info at purchase)
Regular pricing:
$20 – just me
$30 – me and a friend
$40 – me and a group
$50 – me plus support for UtahPresents’ mission.
This is a virtual event. Email must be provided at purchase to receive links for access to the event.
Price includes access to the live/synchronous stream on Nov 20 as well as four episodes released in advance to view online.
All content will be available for ticket buyers through Nov 30 to view online. Early buyers will also have access to additional exclusive “behind the scenes” videos from the company
PPAK: Journeys in Native Food Sovereignty, hosted by Dancing Earth
PPAK: Journeys in Native Food Sovereignty
Wednesday, November 18th
5-6:30pm PST . 8-9:30pm EST
Meeting ID: 829 9361 5868
Passcode: 143829
ABOUT THIS CLASS
This Native Food Sovereignty panel will be a collective discussion on Native community members and their current work in Farming and Food Sovereignty. Discussions will include Conserving Traditional Agroecosystems by Combining Principles of Permaculture & Pueblo Practices with Talavai Denipah-Cook, A journey story of Farming Start up and heritage seed planting in the Eastern Sierras of Paiute territory with Shannon Romero and Indigenous food farming and youth empowerment with Lupita Salazar of Northern Youth Project in New Mexico.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS
Talavai Denipah-Cook
Unvi Agandi, Talavi Cook is Summer clan from Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, Spider clan from Hopi, and Bitter Water clan from the Navajo Nation. Growing up in the desert of the Southwestern United States, the people, culture, and land has been a source of healing, challenges, and motivation for her to pursue a higher education. Talavi received a B.S. in Environmental and Organismic Biology at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Talavi is a Master of Science student in the Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science Program at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo. Her future endeavors include going back to Indigenous communities to help keep ancestral lands resilient and provide land and culture-based learning programs to the youth.
Lupita Salazar
Performing Artist/Dancer. Indigenous Food Sovereignty, farmer and youth leader with the Northern Youth Project Executive Director - Arts Program Coordinator http://www.northernyouthproject.org/
Shannon Romero
Shannon D. Romero, Nüümü (Paiute) / Tiwa (Taos Pueblo) is a Graphic Artist/Entrepreneur/Recently Elected in July Vice-Chairwoman of the Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens Valley turned Indigenous Farmer during the pandemic of 2020. Shannon is a first time farmer and utilized Tribal Organizations in early April for start-up crops and supplies. Currently residing in Payahuunadü (Owens Valley) the homelands of the Nüümü, where land is scarce and water rights are always in discussion. Shannon set forth to utilize the land and resources and continues to work with outside organizations to develop opportunities for local community members.
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 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.
PPAK: Traditional Pueblo Bread Making w/ Sage Romero
PPAK: Traditional Pueblo Bread Making
w/ Sage Romero
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.
PPAK: Fire Making w/ a Hand Drill w/ Mother Nature Center & Ibrahim Loeks, hosted by Dancing Earth
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.
Afro-Indigenous Empowerment, hosted by Dancing Earth
Afro-Indigenous Empowerment
Join Dancing Earth Afro-Indigenous Performers, Collaborators & Activists for a creative work sharing, perspectives, struggles & life stories of how these artists step into their POWER as Afro-Indigenous culture carriers.
Thursday, September 10th
6-7:30pm PDT . 9-10:30pm EDT
Join Us on Zoom Here!
Meeting ID: 851 8185 8792
Passcode: 003460
Artists Bios
KAYLA BANKS - (professional choreographer, dancer and actress) is from Denver, Colorado where she received her B.A. in Performing Arts and Business Administration from Colorado State University. She is of African indigenous and European descent. She has danced professionally with Impact Dance Company, Dancing Earth Indigenous Dance Creations and Cleo Parker Robinson. She has performed nationally in cities from LA to New York City at The Public Theater under the choreographic direction of Emily Bufferd. She has choreographed for dance festivals in Colorado, The Portland Musical Theatre Co., Anya Pearson: Shaking Tree Theatre, and New Expressive Works. She is also a dance teacher teaching in studios, outreach programs and dance schools such as Colorado Ballet, The Portland Ballet and Cleo Parker Robsinson. She is currently working as a project manager with Jacob’s Pillow online summer programming and project dancer with Dancing Earth. She is currently based in Denver, Colorado.
RAS K'DEE - from Sonoma County, California, is a Native California Pomo/African musician, community educator, and renowned lyricist, producer, & lead vocalist/keyboardist for Bay Area-based live world hip-hop ensemble, Audiopharmacy. For K’dee, his musical inspiration is deeply rooted from his experience as a cultural artist. Translating artistically through world music, hip-hop, rhymes and soulful melodies, K’dee invokes the songs and dances from traditional ceremonies of his native people, and tells stories of resistance, healing, community & empowerment that can be understood and felt universally by all people. He has been compared to the likes of Gil Scott Heron, and Marvin Gaye. Ras K’dee’s musical repertoire includes “Street Prison” (2005), which was awarded by East Bay Express as Best Local Album of The Year in 2006, co-production on Audiopharmacy album, “U Forgot About Us” (2009), and producing his first solo-project, “Cloudwriter” (2011), Audiopharmacy’s State of the Heart (2014) and Black Native (2016). K’dee has also had his hand in releasing, producing, and engineering 18 albums by local and international artists and has shared the stage with Arrested Development, Dead Prez, Michael Franti, Pharcyde, X-Clan, Bruno Mars, Goapale and many more who have influenced his own music.
K’dee has toured locally and internationally with Audiopharmacy for 16 consecutive years, traveling to Germany, Austria, UK, Holland, Switzerland, France, Japan, Indonesia, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Ecuador, Morocco, Oman and Cyprus to share his music. In 2003, K’dee co-founded (and is the current director) of a Native youth media organization Seventh Native American Generation (SNAG) whose annual publication features the art, photos, music and writing of Indigenous Youth. K’dee leads summer workshops with Youth and is a producer and occasional co-host of the radio program “Bay Native Circle” on 94.1 FM in Northern California. K’dee has also been featured in Smithsonian Magazine (Summer 2010), and Native California news 2015, and his awards include; Most Earnest and Up And Coming Band (2005), KQED American Indian Local Heroes Award (2009), American Music Abroad Program - Cultural Ambassador (2013-14), American Indian Film Award - Best Animation Short Injunuity (2017). K'dee is currently building the first ever sustainably built, Indigenous led, multi-media center of its kind the NEST Community Arts Center in his Pomo homeland. With the completion of the first permanent structure this fall, the cob visual arts studio, K’dee is currently fundraising to build the main structure, which will house SNAG Magazine’s offices, innovation studios, dance studio, holistic healing space, communal living space, and music studio.
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PPAK: Blue Corn Tamale w/ Talavai Denipah Cook, hosted by Dancing Earth
Blue Corn Tamale w/ Talavai Denipah Cook
Monday, August 17
5-6:30pm PDT . 8-9:30pm EDT
Join TALAVAI on Zoom!
Meeting ID: 837 2593 2031 Passcode: 445746
Reserve Your Tickets
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 THIS CLASS
In this class we will be making tiny blue corn tamale. After the previous class which instructor Melanie David showed us corn processing, we will be taking that corn meal and making small blue corn tamale. You can attend this class just to watch and learn or you can follow along and make these tamale with us! If you are following along, please see ingredients listed below.
This class will also be accompanied by a presentation that will go more in depth about blue corn, it's meaning to Indigenous people as a sacred food source and the process of making tamale.
WHAT YOU NEED FOR THIS CLASS
If you would like to follow along you will need to following materials. This class is also fun just for watching the demonstration and cultural talk!
INGREDIENTS
Blue Corn Meal
Corn Husks
Sugar (or sugar alternative)
Filling - Cheese, Meat or Veggies
Medium - Large Boiling Pot
Mixing Bowl
Access to clean water
ABOUT TALAVAI
Unvi agandi, my name is Talavai Denipah-Cook and come from the Summer clan from Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, Spider clan from Hopi, Bitter Water clan and The Charcoal Streaked Division of the Red Running into the Water clan from the Navajo Nation. Growing up in the desert of the Southwestern United States, the people, culture, and land has been a source of healing, challenges, and motivation to protect and conserve Mother Earth.Therefore, I have received a B.S in Environmental and Organismic Biology in 2016 from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. I also recently graduated with a M.S in Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science from the University of Hawai’i at Hilo. My endeavors include going back to indigenous communities to help keep ancestral lands resilient and provide land and culture-based learning programs to the youth.
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.
PPAK: The BLUE CORN Experience w/ Melanie David, hosted by Dancing Earth
The BLUE CORN Experience
w/ Melanie David
Thursday, August 13
1-2pm PDT . 4-5pm EDT
Join Melanie on Zoom!
Link coming soon
Reserve Your Tickets
Donations Directly to Melanie are greatly appreciated!
Venmo: @Melanie-David-5
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.
The blue corn experience is a fun way to learn the different ways to prepare 6 different meals that all corn cultures have in common.
ABOUT THIS CLASS
The blue corn experience is a fun way to learn the different ways to prepare 6 different meals that all corn cultures have in common, using only 3 ingredients. Blue corn, boiling water and ashes. I will also give modern recipes that are delicious and easy to prepare.
*** No materials required. Participants of any age are welcome.***
ABOUT MELANIE
I am a Multifaceted traditional artist, mother, gardener, gatherer, collector, dancer, caretaker. I belong to the tobacco clan and reside on the Hopi reservation of northeastern Arizona. I am a mixed child of the region, I am Hopi Navajo Zuni and Laguna.
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.
C5 Intensive : Cultural Collaborative Cyberspace Content Creation
C5 Intensive :
Cultural Collaborative Cyberspace Content Creation
About Dancing Earth
Visit Us: dancingearth.org
FB: @DancingEarthCreations
Instagram: @dancing.earth
Dancing Earth Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations dynamically activates our mission to support Indigenous dance and related arts, to encourage and revitalize awareness of bio-cultural diversity through artistic expression, for the education and wellness of all peoples.
Dancing Earth has been named by Dance Magazine as “One of the Top 25 to Watch,” and are recipients of the National Museum of American Indian’s 2010 Expressive Arts Award. Dancing Earth recruits, cultivates, and creates opportunities for emerging global Indigenous talents in all aspects of artistic collaboration - including dance, choreography, music, costume, lighting, video, stage managing, and arts administration.
Dancing Earth gathers Indigenous collaborators, including: Nations of Blackfoot, Metis, Coushatta, Ixil and Tzeltil Maya, Papanga, Cambiva, Yaqui, Purepecha, Shoshone, Dine, Tsalagi, Hopi, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, and Keresan of North Central and South America. They balance a commitment to share dances with regional, national and international communities at venues as varied as festivals, Universities, elementary-high schools, Native wellness gatherings, youth leadership symposiums, art museums, desert canyons, dried river beds, and symposiums for social-environmental justice.
Dancing Earth inspires creativity and cultural consciousness through community art practice, energetic dance training workshops, site specific rituals and full length eco-productions.
About C5
This series welcomes people with performing arts background or strong interest , with pre-requisite of participation in full MOVEMENT AS MEDICINE series.
We will move into cultural creative content-making for camera, in response to surroundings and conditions. Creative expression will be as collective response to a theme, rooted in cultural/ecological understandings emerging from Movement as Medicine, with design specifically for DIY camera. We merge embodied ways of knowing with media technology experimentation for a vision of the future. The session will culminate in a recorded or live streamed outcome.
WHAT TO BRING
Each day to bring for their dinner, a meal that has a story
A quote, or several words that are your strength and inspiration (such as Compassion, Strength, etc.)
At least one ‘Icon' - such as image of artwork (bowl, weaving, beadwork, pattern, art piece, memento, photo, petroglyph, constellation, number, key, rock, writing etc ) that is meaningful/strengthening/inspiring to you, may represent what you come from - whether that means where, who, or a group you identify with as having shaped you, and/or your aspirations for the future
Water bottle, Notebook, bandanna, towel, comfortable clothes , blanket or yoga mat to lie down on.
A device with Zoom downloaded
Earphones (If you have them/ for occasional use)
Portable speaker (optional)
Enough space space to be able to lie down, and enough space to take 3 steps in every direction.
Optional yoga mat or blanket for floor work
PPAK: Traditional Survival Skills: CORDAGE MAKING w/ Ibrahim Loeks, hosted by Dancing Earth
Cordage Making w/ Mother Nature Center & Ibrahim Loeks
Tuesday, July 28
3-4pm PDT . 7-8pm EDT
Join IBRAHIM on ZOOM!
Meeting ID: 867 1886 8832
Passcode: 743858
Reserve Your Tickets
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 THIS CLASS
We will talk about and learn how to make "reverse wrap" cord. The basis for making fishing line, nets, bags, hammocks, bow strings etc. We will ship some natural materials to your address to use for this class or you can also utilize a potato chip bag to learn how to make this cord. If you have any deer skin cord this is ideal for making a strong string.
CORDAGE KITS
Cordage Kits are available for purchase, but are not necessary for participation in this class. If you would like a cordage kit, please select the "purchase cordage kit" ticket option or "donation over $35" ticket option. If you choose to purchase a cordage kit you will be contacted by Dancing Earth to collect your mailing address. Kits must be purchased 7 days before the start of this class in order to ensure that your kit arrives in time. Materials costs for cordage kit will go towards supporting Mother Nature Center & time spent for wild material collection and shipping costs.
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.
Movement As Medicine: Dancing Earth's 2020 Online Summer Intensive
Movement As Medicine
Dancing Earth's 2020 Online Summer Intensive
RSVP by JULY 10
About Pricing
$1500 - Full price and I would love to subsidize another participant
$750 - $250 per day, training 6 hr day, approx. $30 dollars per master class
$300 - $100 per day, training 6 hr days, $15 per master class
$150 - $50 per day, training 6 hr days $7.50 per master class
$75 - $25 per day, training 6 hr days, $3.25 per master class
About Dancing Earth
Visit Us: dancingearth.org
FB: @DancingEarthCreations
Instagram: @dancing.earth
Dancing Earth Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations dynamically activates our mission to support Indigenous dance and related arts, to encourage and revitalize awareness of bio-cultural diversity through artistic expression, for the education and wellness of all peoples.
Dancing Earth has been named by Dance Magazine as “One of the Top 25 to Watch,” and are recipients of the National Museum of American Indian’s 2010 Expressive Arts Award. Dancing Earth recruits, cultivates, and creates opportunities for emerging global Indigenous talents in all aspects of artistic collaboration - including dance, choreography, music, costume, lighting, video, stage managing, and arts administration.
Dancing Earth gathers Indigenous collaborators, including: Nations of Blackfoot, Metis, Coushatta, Ixil and Tzeltil Maya, Papanga, Cambiva, Yaqui, Purepecha, Shoshone, Dine, Tsalagi, Hopi, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, and Keresan of North Central and South America. They balance a commitment to share dances with regional, national and international communities at venues as varied as festivals, Universities, elementary-high schools, Native wellness gatherings, youth leadership symposiums, art museums, desert canyons, dried river beds, and symposiums for social-environmental justice.
Dancing Earth inspires creativity and cultural consciousness through community art practice, energetic dance training workshops, site specific rituals and full length eco-productions.
About MaM
This session is intended for people who love movement, culture, and nature and are not full time rigorous movement practitioners. Cultural protocols, cultural exchange, land dance training , restorative practices and a community engagement session to activate reciprocity.
People of all backgrounds, ages, and without extensive dance training are invited for People of all backgrounds, ages, and without extensive dance training are invited for a 3 day series ( held every other day) to renew body, mind, spirit, emotions, individual and collective imagination through the healing power of movement.Sessions will include multi-disciplinary expressions such as land dance, somatic healing practices, cultural exchange, re-story-ing of movement, with independent study exercises for the day off .
Together we will experience and recommit to the multi dimensional benefits of a daily movement practice, movement for making community, movement for Movement Building (for specific social change initiatives), and for reconnection for life forms beyond human.
WHAT TO BRING
- Each day to bring for their dinner, a meal that has a story.
- A quote, or several words that are your strength and inspiration (such as Compassion, Strength, etc.).
- At least one ‘Icon' - such as image of artwork (bowl, weaving, beadwork, pattern, art piece, memento, photo, petroglyph, constellation, number, key, rock, writing etc ) that is meaningful / strengthening / inspiring to you, may represent what you come from - whether that means where, who, or a group you identify with as having shaped you, and/or your aspirations for the future.
- Water bottle, Notebook, bandanna, towel, comfortable clothes , blanket or yoga mat to lie down on.
- A device with Zoom downloaded.
- Earphones (If you have them/ for occasional use).
- Portable speaker (optional).
- Enough space space to be able to lie down, and enough space to take 3 steps in every direction.
- Optional yoga mat or blanket for floor work.
Native Hoop Dance Masters Class Series, hosted by Dancing Earth
Native Hoop Dance Masters Class Series
Thursdays in July
4-5pm PDT . 7-8pm EDT
Join Us on Zoom Here!
Meeting ID: 868 9169 2046
Password: 921149
Pay What You Can
Donations collected in ticketing to this class will go towardsDancing Earth's Covid Artist Relief Fund.
Reserve Your Tickets
ABOUT DANCING EARTH
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 works to support Indigenous communities and diverse cultural communities. Dancing Earth welcomes all artists of all ages, and cultural backgrounds. If you are passionate about participating in Dancing Earth's classes, presentations, performances or programs, we'd love to welcome you no matter your current financial limitations.
HOOPS NOT REQUIRED TO JOIN.
TEACHERS
July 2 - Sage Romero July 9 - Lumhe “Micco” Sampson
July 16 - Talavai Denipah-Cook July 23 - Sandra Lamouche
ABOUT THIS CLASS
This 4 class series through the month of July will host a rotating lineup of Master's Hoop Dance teachers. Each teacher will be teaching with their personal style and personal philosophy of culture, dance and technique informed by their individual Native culture and teachings. Every class can be taken individually or as a series. Donations can be made directly to teachers.This hoop series cultural presentation is light movement for all ages and abilities. These series of classes can be done with or without hoops. Instructors will teach how hoops, health, healing and balance intersect. Teachers will be sharing lessons from the hoop dance that can guide you through healing during these times. The classes will use storytelling and traditional teachings to explore contemporary issues. There will be some moderate HIIT training, light movement and stretches, hoop storytelling, philosophy. Teachers will also demonstrate hoop dancing moves, symbols and tricks.
CLASSES AS ALWAYS,
NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS!
HOOPS FOR PURCHASE
Hoops are available for purchase here. Hoops are made-to-order by Lumhe, ships next day, 3-5 business days. If you wish to purchase a set of hoops please visit https://sampsonbrosarts.com/
ABOUT Our Teachers
SAGE
PayPal: akamyagroup@gmail.com
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.
MICCO
PayPal: paypal.me/sampsonbros
Lumhe (Micco) Sampson Lumhe Sampson (of the Sampson Bros. Lumhe & Samsoche) is world renowned for his innovative and unique collaborative style in hoop dance exhibition. Symbolizing the connection and emphasizing importance in unity of all things in this world, their unique performance invigorates the mind and brings harmony to ones soul. The Bros. have been teaching and sharing the art of Hoop Dance for over 25 years throughout Turtle Island and beyond.
TALAVAI
Venmo: @Talavi-Cook
Talavai Denipah - Cook is a female hoop dancer from the tribes of Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, Navajo, and Hopi. She has been hoop dancing for the past 13 years and have participated in Hoop dance competitions and contemporary dance performances. Hoop dance is not only for show; it also represents the earth, four directions, four seasons, and medicine. Talavai says "dancing the Hoop dance has opened my eyes to body movement and functions, as well as grounding myself to the earth. I also use hoop dance as an educational tool to help people around the world realize that our earth is being destroyed and we need to build community to help heal the land. As hoop dance heals the land, I would love to teach others how to hoop dance as well."
SANDRA
Teacher Donations Graciously Donated to Dancing Earth & Black Lives Matter.
Tansi! My name is Sandra Lamouche, I am a member of the Bigstone Cree Nation. I am a wife, mother, sister daughter. I am married into the Piikani Nation and have been living in Blackfoot territory for almost 20 years. I have a Bachelors Degree in Native American Studies from the U of L (2007). I am completing my thesis on Indigenous Dance and well being from Trent University. I am the only Native women on the International Dance Council (CID) nominated by the CID president in 2013. In 2017 I won the first ever Women's Hoop Dance Championship in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2018 I received an Esquao Award for Leadership in Education.
Native Hoop Dance Masters Class Series, hosted by Dancing Earth
Native Hoop Dance Masters Class Series
Thursdays in July
4-5pm PDT . 7-8pm EDT
Join Us on Zoom Here!
Meeting ID: 868 9169 2046
Password: 921149
Pay What You Can
Donations collected in ticketing to this class will go towardsDancing Earth's Covid Artist Relief Fund.
Reserve Your Tickets
ABOUT DANCING EARTH
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 works to support Indigenous communities and diverse cultural communities. Dancing Earth welcomes all artists of all ages, and cultural backgrounds. If you are passionate about participating in Dancing Earth's classes, presentations, performances or programs, we'd love to welcome you no matter your current financial limitations.
HOOPS NOT REQUIRED TO JOIN.
TEACHERS
July 2 - Sage Romero July 9 - Lumhe “Micco” Sampson
July 16 - Talavai Denipah-Cook July 23 - Sandra Lamouche
ABOUT THIS CLASS
This 4 class series through the month of July will host a rotating lineup of Master's Hoop Dance teachers. Each teacher will be teaching with their personal style and personal philosophy of culture, dance and technique informed by their individual Native culture and teachings. Every class can be taken individually or as a series. Donations can be made directly to teachers.This hoop series cultural presentation is light movement for all ages and abilities. These series of classes can be done with or without hoops. Instructors will teach how hoops, health, healing and balance intersect. Teachers will be sharing lessons from the hoop dance that can guide you through healing during these times. The classes will use storytelling and traditional teachings to explore contemporary issues. There will be some moderate HIIT training, light movement and stretches, hoop storytelling, philosophy. Teachers will also demonstrate hoop dancing moves, symbols and tricks.
CLASSES AS ALWAYS,
NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS!
HOOPS FOR PURCHASE
Hoops are available for purchase here. Hoops are made-to-order by Lumhe, ships next day, 3-5 business days. If you wish to purchase a set of hoops please visit https://sampsonbrosarts.com/
ABOUT Our Teachers
SAGE
PayPal: akamyagroup@gmail.com
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.
MICCO
PayPal: paypal.me/sampsonbros
Lumhe (Micco) Sampson Lumhe Sampson (of the Sampson Bros. Lumhe & Samsoche) is world renowned for his innovative and unique collaborative style in hoop dance exhibition. Symbolizing the connection and emphasizing importance in unity of all things in this world, their unique performance invigorates the mind and brings harmony to ones soul. The Bros. have been teaching and sharing the art of Hoop Dance for over 25 years throughout Turtle Island and beyond.
TALAVAI
Venmo: @Talavi-Cook
Talavai Denipah - Cook is a female hoop dancer from the tribes of Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, Navajo, and Hopi. She has been hoop dancing for the past 13 years and have participated in Hoop dance competitions and contemporary dance performances. Hoop dance is not only for show; it also represents the earth, four directions, four seasons, and medicine. Talavai says "dancing the Hoop dance has opened my eyes to body movement and functions, as well as grounding myself to the earth. I also use hoop dance as an educational tool to help people around the world realize that our earth is being destroyed and we need to build community to help heal the land. As hoop dance heals the land, I would love to teach others how to hoop dance as well."
SANDRA
Teacher Donations Graciously Donated to Dancing Earth & Black Lives Matter.
Tansi! My name is Sandra Lamouche, I am a member of the Bigstone Cree Nation. I am a wife, mother, sister daughter. I am married into the Piikani Nation and have been living in Blackfoot territory for almost 20 years. I have a Bachelors Degree in Native American Studies from the U of L (2007). I am completing my thesis on Indigenous Dance and well being from Trent University. I am the only Native women on the International Dance Council (CID) nominated by the CID president in 2013. In 2017 I won the first ever Women's Hoop Dance Championship in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2018 I received an Esquao Award for Leadership in Education.
Native Hoop Dance Masters Class Series, hosted by Dancing Earth
Native Hoop DanceMasters Class Series
Thursdays in July
4-5pm PDT . 7-8pm EDT
Join Us on Zoom Here!
Meeting ID: 868 9169 2046
Password: 921149
Pay What You Can
Donations collected in ticketing to this class will go towardsDancing Earth's Covid Artist Relief Fund.
Reserve Your Tickets
ABOUT DANCING EARTH
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 works to support Indigenous communities and diverse cultural communities. Dancing Earth welcomes all artists of all ages, and cultural backgrounds. If you are passionate about participating in Dancing Earth's classes, presentations, performances or programs, we'd love to welcome you no matter your current financial limitations.
HOOPS NOT REQUIRED TO JOIN.
TEACHERS
July 2 - Sage Romero July 9 - Lumhe “Micco” Sampson
July 16 - Talavai Denipah-Cook July 23 - Sandra Lamouche
ABOUT THIS CLASS
This 4 class series through the month of July will host a rotating lineup of Master's Hoop Dance teachers. Each teacher will be teaching with their personal style and personal philosophy of culture, dance and technique informed by their individual Native culture and teachings. Every class can be taken individually or as a series. Donations can be made directly to teachers.This hoop series cultural presentation is light movement for all ages and abilities. These series of classes can be done with or without hoops. Instructors will teach how hoops, health, healing and balance intersect. Teachers will be sharing lessons from the hoop dance that can guide you through healing during these times. The classes will use storytelling and traditional teachings to explore contemporary issues. There will be some moderate HIIT training, light movement and stretches, hoop storytelling, philosophy. Teachers will also demonstrate hoop dancing moves, symbols and tricks.
CLASSES AS ALWAYS,
NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS!
HOOPS FOR PURCHASE
Hoops are available for purchase here. Hoops are made-to-order by Lumhe, ships next day, 3-5 business days. If you wish to purchase a set of hoops please visit https://sampsonbrosarts.com/
ABOUT Our Teachers
SAGE
PayPal: akamyagroup@gmail.com
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.
MICCO
PayPal: paypal.me/sampsonbros
Lumhe (Micco) Sampson Lumhe Sampson (of the Sampson Bros. Lumhe & Samsoche) is world renowned for his innovative and unique collaborative style in hoop dance exhibition. Symbolizing the connection and emphasizing importance in unity of all things in this world, their unique performance invigorates the mind and brings harmony to ones soul. The Bros. have been teaching and sharing the art of Hoop Dance for over 25 years throughout Turtle Island and beyond.
TALAVAI
Venmo: @Talavi-Cook
Talavai Denipah - Cook is a female hoop dancer from the tribes of Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, Navajo, and Hopi. She has been hoop dancing for the past 13 years and have participated in Hoop dance competitions and contemporary dance performances. Hoop dance is not only for show; it also represents the earth, four directions, four seasons, and medicine. Talavai says "dancing the Hoop dance has opened my eyes to body movement and functions, as well as grounding myself to the earth. I also use hoop dance as an educational tool to help people around the world realize that our earth is being destroyed and we need to build community to help heal the land. As hoop dance heals the land, I would love to teach others how to hoop dance as well."
SANDRA
Teacher Donations Graciously Donated to Dancing Earth & Black Lives Matter.
Tansi! My name is Sandra Lamouche, I am a member of the Bigstone Cree Nation. I am a wife, mother, sister daughter. I am married into the Piikani Nation and have been living in Blackfoot territory for almost 20 years. I have a Bachelors Degree in Native American Studies from the U of L (2007). I am completing my thesis on Indigenous Dance and well being from Trent University. I am the only Native women on the International Dance Council (CID) nominated by the CID president in 2013. In 2017 I won the first ever Women's Hoop Dance Championship in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2018 I received an Esquao Award for Leadership in Education.
Native Hoop Dance Masters Class Series, hosted by Dancing Earth
Native Hoop Dance
Masters Class Series
Thursdays in July
4-5pm PDT . 7-8pm EDT
Join Us on Zoom Here!
Meeting ID: 868 9169 2046
Password: 921149
Pay What You Can
Donations collected in ticketing to this class will go towards
Dancing Earth's Covid Artist Relief Fund.
Reserve Your Tickets
ABOUT DANCING EARTH
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 works to support Indigenous communities and diverse cultural communities. Dancing Earth welcomes all artists of all ages, and cultural backgrounds. If you are passionate about participating in Dancing Earth's classes, presentations, performances or programs, we'd love to welcome you no matter your current financial limitations.
HOOPS NOT REQUIRED TO JOIN.
TEACHERS
July 2 - Sage Romero July 9 - Lumhe “Micco” Sampson
July 16 - Talavai Denipah-Cook July 23 - Sandra Lamouche
ABOUT THIS CLASS
This 4 class series through the month of July will host a rotating lineup of Master's Hoop Dance teachers. Each teacher will be teaching with their personal style and personal philosophy of culture, dance and technique informed by their individual Native culture and teachings. Every class can be taken individually or as a series. Donations can be made directly to teachers.This hoop series cultural presentation is light movement for all ages and abilities. These series of classes can be done with or without hoops. Instructors will teach how hoops, health, healing and balance intersect. Teachers will be sharing lessons from the hoop dance that can guide you through healing during these times. The classes will use storytelling and traditional teachings to explore contemporary issues. There will be some moderate HIIT training, light movement and stretches, hoop storytelling, philosophy. Teachers will also demonstrate hoop dancing moves, symbols and tricks.
CLASSES AS ALWAYS,
NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS!
HOOPS FOR PURCHASE
Hoops are available for purchase here. Hoops are made-to-order by Lumhe, ships next day, 3-5 business days. If you wish to purchase a set of hoops please visit https://sampsonbrosarts.com/
ABOUT Our Teachers
SAGE
PayPal: akamyagroup@gmail.com
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.
MICCO
PayPal: paypal.me/sampsonbros
Lumhe (Micco) Sampson Lumhe Sampson (of the Sampson Bros. Lumhe & Samsoche) is world renowned for his innovative and unique collaborative style in hoop dance exhibition. Symbolizing the connection and emphasizing importance in unity of all things in this world, their unique performance invigorates the mind and brings harmony to ones soul. The Bros. have been teaching and sharing the art of Hoop Dance for over 25 years throughout Turtle Island and beyond.
TALAVAI
Venmo: @Talavi-Cook
Talavai Denipah - Cook is a female hoop dancer from the tribes of Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, Navajo, and Hopi. She has been hoop dancing for the past 13 years and have participated in Hoop dance competitions and contemporary dance performances. Hoop dance is not only for show; it also represents the earth, four directions, four seasons, and medicine. Talavai says "dancing the Hoop dance has opened my eyes to body movement and functions, as well as grounding myself to the earth. I also use hoop dance as an educational tool to help people around the world realize that our earth is being destroyed and we need to build community to help heal the land. As hoop dance heals the land, I would love to teach others how to hoop dance as well."
SANDRA
Teacher Donations Graciously Donated to Dancing Earth & Black Lives Matter.
Tansi! My name is Sandra Lamouche, I am a member of the Bigstone Cree Nation. I am a wife, mother, sister daughter. I am married into the Piikani Nation and have been living in Blackfoot territory for almost 20 years. I have a Bachelors Degree in Native American Studies from the U of L (2007). I am completing my thesis on Indigenous Dance and well being from Trent University. I am the only Native women on the International Dance Council (CID) nominated by the CID president in 2013. In 2017 I won the first ever Women's Hoop Dance Championship in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2018 I received an Esquao Award for Leadership in Education.
Indigenous Two Spirit / IndigiQueer / Native Trans Talk Circle
What Is the Color Of Two Spirit?
Indigenous Two Spirit / IndigiQueer / Native Trans Talk Circle
Ceremony, Intersectionality, Afro-Native Trans Lives Matter, Making Tradition
"I think trans* peoples stole the sunset and made it their flag... They transformed day into night, night into day. I think the trans* peoples are more ancient than my mama's stories después de pan dulce y té con leche... They paint the sky before we can see it, in its prolific potentiality of transition. I think the trans* peoples birthed creator..." - Don'Té Omé Lauren
Cover Photo: Dip into Sunset - by Pablo Macho, of the House of Machos
About Dancing Earth
Visit Us: dancingearth.org
FB: @DancingEarthCreations
Instagram: @dancing.earth
Dancing Earth Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations dynamically activates our mission to support Indigenous dance and related arts, to encourage and revitalize awareness of bio-cultural diversity through artistic expression, for the education and wellness of all peoples.
Dancing Earth has been named by Dance Magazine as “One of the Top 25 to Watch,” and are recipients of the National Museum of American Indian’s 2010 Expressive Arts Award. Dancing Earth recruits, cultivates, and creates opportunities for emerging global Indigenous talents in all aspects of artistic collaboration - including dance, choreography, music, costume, lighting, video, stage managing, and arts administration.
Dancing Earth gathers Indigenous collaborators, including: Nations of Blackfoot, Metis, Coushatta, Ixil and Tzeltil Maya, Papanga, Cambiva, Yaqui, Purepecha, Shoshone, Dine, Tsalagi, Hopi, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, and Keresan of North Central and South America. They balance a commitment to share dances with regional, national and international communities at venues as varied as festivals, Universities, elementary-high schools, Native wellness gatherings, youth leadership symposiums, art museums, desert canyons, dried river beds, and symposiums for social-environmental justice.
Dancing Earth inspires creativity and cultural consciousness through community art practice, energetic dance training workshops, site specific rituals and full length eco-productions.
Monday, June 29
5-6:30pm PDT . 8-9:30pm EDT
ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION
A Two Spirit /IndigiQueer/Native Trans Talk Circle - A Panel Presentation Exploring Ceremony, Intersectionality, Afro-Native Trans Lives Matter, Black Trans Lives Matter, Making of Two Spirit Tradition, Social Justice & much more.
Presenters: Shash Yázhí Charley, Fabiola Torralba, Cuauhtémoc Donté Lauren, Snowflake Calvert
Moderated By: Cuauhtemoc Peranda, M.F.A. Critical Dance Studies Ph.D. Student Fellow
About The Artists
Shash Yázhí Charley was raised on the Diné (Navajo) reservation in New Mexico. For the last 28 years Shash Yázhí, has implemented traditional Diné practices through working with activists and individuals who wish to create internal healing and balance in their lives. Shash Yázhí conducts individual sessions towards liberation and transformation to promote integrating and connecting the mind, body, heart and spirit.
Shash Yázhí has been at the forefront of advocating for LGBTQ-Two Spirit equality and justice. Currently Shash Yázhí is holding space of embodying a traditional gender society called Four Direction Fire Keepers - Dilbaa and Indigenous gender queer/trans male.
Fabiola Ochoa Torralba was born in Guerrero, Mexico and raised in the Westside of Yanaguana, San Antonio, Texas. Her experience as an activist, organizer, and cultural worker has led to collaborations with community groups, schools, galleries, and non-profit organizations for inner city youth to senior citizens, refugees, Spanish speakers, QTIPOC, and fine arts students. Their work has ranged from public dance actions to performance installations and theater productions hosted by Jump-Start Performance Company, Lady Base Gallery, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, Mexic-Arte Museum, W-I-P San Antonio, and the Indigenous Choreographers Gathering at UC-Riverside.
Fabiola holds an A.A. in Dance, B.A. in Mexican American Studies and Anthropology, and an M.F.A in Dance. They have trained with leadership institutes by the Urban Bush Women, Dancing Earth Contemporary Creations, Dance/USA, F.I.E.R.C.E., Esperanza Peace and Justice Center and N.A.L.A.C. In addition to independent projects, they have worked as a performer, choreographer, project collaborator, and instructor with companies such as SpareWorks Dance, Dance Exchange, Safos Dance Theatre, Forklift Danceworks, Urban-15, and Dancing Earth Contemporary Creations. Her research engages intersectional politics, decolonial epistemologies, and (im)migrant identities. They enjoy facilitating dance making opportunities for movers of all backgrounds and interdisciplinary collaborations that explore performance and action. (*Photo Credit: Yasmín Parra Codina).
Cuauhtémoc Peranda (Mescalero Apache, Mexika-Chichimeca/Cano; & cihuaiolo butch queen) is a fifth-year Critical Dance Studies Ph.D. student at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). Their academic studies have been supported by the U.S. Department of Education Native American Studies Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (G.A.A.N.N.) Fellowship, the Dean’s Distinguished Doctoral Student Fellowship, and the Max H. Gluck Arts Fellowship. Their research focuses on the history of the United States’ House Ballroom Scene, in particular the West Coast Ballscene, and its involvement in how queer, trans* and two-spirit black, and blackened indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere have deployed the dance form of vogue (voguing/Performance) as a praxis of decolonization, anti-colonialism, transformational resilience, and queering indigenous knowledge reclamation. They have presented their research at the 2016 Congress on Research in Dance & Society of Dance History Scholars Joint Conference, the 2017 UC Davis Sixth Annual Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium, Native American Studies Graduate Student Symposium, the 2017 UC Santa Cruz Queer and Trans People of Color Conference, and they were awarded the 2016 Lambda Graduate Student Service Award for their commitment to the success of the 2016 BlaqOUT Conference and the LGBT community at UC Riverside. They are the founder of the Graduate American Indian Alliance (GAIA) at UC Riverside, and were an organizing member of the UC Riverside 2018 ¡Presente! Summit, and with Cal-PEP & Father Zander Lauren, organized the 2019 World AIDS Day Ball and Community Panel, in Oakland,CA. As a dancer, they have performed throughout California, and has presented dance work in New York, Seattle, London, Honolulu, Berlin, Cambridge, and Tijuana, and have had the honor to teach and lecture at UCR, Stanford University, De Anza College, Pomona College, and California State University, Sacramento. They walk raise children in the West Coast Ballscenes, and they're known as "Overall Prince Don'Té Lauren" of The Legendary House of Lauren, International. They hold an M.F.A. in Dance from Mills College, and a B.A. in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity from Stanford University.
Snowflake Calvert is a Two-Spirit artist who serves as the Co-President of QUIL - Queers United for Intersectional Liberation. She produces queer events throughout California and Oregon that allow her to curate a vehicle for political, social, and cultural activism through the artistry of her radical queerness.
In addition, she is a professional dancer, teacher and entrepreneur. She was a member of The Haus of Towers, has worked with the BAAITS Powwow committee, teaches decolonization through movement workshops, is the former owner/director of The Dance Zone Studio, is hosting and participating in two-spirit talking circles.
Afro-Fusion Modern Dance w/ Kayla Banks, hosted by Dancing Earth
Thanks to Karyn & Park Hill Dance Company for the studio donation! https://parkhilldanceacademy.com
Afro-Fusion Modern Dance w/ Kayla Banks, hosted by DANCING EARTH
Friday, June 26
Traditional West African and indigenous dance movements that influenced modern dance today this class w/ recorded drum rhythm and sounds.
ABOUT THIS CLASS:
Come dance and learn some of the roots of modern dance. Stemming from traditional West African and indigenous movements that influenced modern dance today this class will be led with recorded drum rhythm and sounds.This class will enliven the human spirit and give perspective to the richness of drum culture and dancing bare footed.
SUPPORT KAYLA:
Venmo: @kaymarban - or-
PayPal: banksmovement@gmail.com
ABOUT KAYLA:
Bio: Kayla has trained with leading teachers, Mr. Bobby, Baba Chuck Davis, Cleo Parker, Charles Armagh son of Abo Addy and Rulan Tangen, that have nourished the knowledge of West African and native dance. She is versed in the Horton and Dunham modern dance techniques. This class will enliven the human spirit and give perspective to the richness of drum culture and dancing bare footed.
WHAT TO BRING:
Water bottle- Loose, comfortable clothing- Your booty & energy!
ABOUT DANCING EARTH
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 in every aspect of artistic collaboration - including dance, choreography, music, costume, lighting, video, stage managing, and arts administration.
Acorn Demonstration w/ Bernadette Smith & Pomo Youth
Project Team
Bernadette Antoinette Smith - Teacher/Facilitator: Northern Pomo, Mexica
Kanyon CoyoteWoman Sayers-Roods - Language & Place: Ohlone
Web: kanyonkonsulting.com
FB: Kanyon Consulting
Instagram:@KanyonKonsulting
Tiśina T. Parker - Program Manager: Yosemite Miwuk, Kashia Pomo, Mono Lake Paiute
Instagram: @NativeOne
Dance Mission - Presenter
About Dance Mission
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Instagram: @dancemissiontheater
Dance Mission connects and empowers diverse Bay Area communities and artists through all aspects of dance and dance theater, including the production of new works, instruction, and performance. We are an artist-driven, feminist organization dedicated to building community, addressing social justice issues, exploring cultural identities, promoting inclusivity, and creating a more peaceful world through collective action. Many female artists, artists of color, and culturally specific ensembles consider Dance Mission to be their artistic home. Master teachers of dance and music have created a thriving inter-generational community celebrating cultural traditions, welcoming students of all backgrounds. Dance Mission is also the home of Krissy Keefer’s Dance Brigade, San Francisco’s groundbreaking, feminist social-change modern dance company. ... learn more...
Acorn Demonstration w/ Bernadette Smith & Pomo Youth
Grinding demo & cultural talk about traditional, sacred food of California Natives. Presented by & for youth.
Thursday, June 25
6-7pm PDT . 9-10pm EDT
Bernadette Smith & Pomo Youth on Zoom HERE!
REINDIGENIZE: The Acorn Project is presented by Dance Mission as part of its WORD! series
About the Class
Join Bernadette and Pomo youth in a cultural discussion about Bernadette's and the Manchester Band of Pomo Indians work in protecting their sacred food source of Tan Oak Acorn in Northern California. Learn about this traditional, Indigenous food source as well as environmental and human impacts that threaten acorn in the Northern Pomo region of coastal California including slash and spray as well as environmental threats exacerbated by global warming such as sudden oak death.
This class will include an acorn grinding demo led by Pomo youth guided by Bernadette, techniques in processing as well as how acorn plays a role in contemporary Native culture, life, health, wellness and Native food sovereignty.
Downloadable acorn coloring sheet designed by Kanyon Sayers-Roods will include varietal illustrations, local Native name places, local tribal words for acorn.
Youth encouraged to attend!!!
REFLECTION POOL AFTER PARTY: Livestreaming I.F.: Indigenous Futurities: Dancing Earth in CyberSpace, presented by Toasterlab
REFLECTION POOL AFTER PARTY
IF: Indigenous Futurities Dancing Earth in Cyberworld Performance
RSVP EVENT - JOIN US!!!!
Thursday, June 18
7-8pm PDT / 10-11pm EDT
REGISTRATION LINK
Pre-registration required for attendance
Join Dancing Earth for Reflection Pool After Party for an interactive conversation about the creation and content of IF: Indigenous Futurities Dancing Earth In Cyberworld. This after party will be moderated by dance/theatre innovative professionals in the creative world.
INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION
Together we will explore topics brought forth during the IF: Performance including:
- What messages would you give to fellow humans at this time?
- What messages would you give to Earth at this time?
- What are your dreams for the future?
MUSIC & DANCE PARTY
After discussion live music will be hosted by Quetzal Guerrero w/ a community dance party!
Livestreaming I.F.: Indigenous Futurities: Dancing Earth in CyberSpace
Collaborating artist visionaries reveal cyberspace as a realm of ritual, to reimagine the future.
Thurs, June 18, 2020
6:30pm PDT . 9:30pm EDT
Toasterlab presents I.F. : Indigenous Futurities : Dancing Earth in CyberSpace livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv.
Collaborating artist visionaries reveal cyberspace as a realm of ritual, to reimagine the future from the brink of collapse of the dominant system and re-emergence of Indigenous cosmologies. Technology is reclaimed to affirm connections between distant places and times. At a time of DisDancing: what is the message from human-to-human; what is the sacred invisible web that connects us? We reach into the constellations to remember ancestral stories of creation after destruction, to guide us forward.
We extend our gratitude to Colorado College 3X3 and Toasterlab for support of this vision! Read more about 3X3 Projects HERE.
About HowlRound TV
HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based peer produced, open access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world's performing arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and to develop our knowledge commons collectively. Participate in a community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our participate page. For any other queries, email tv@howlround.com, or call Vijay Mathew at +1 917.686.3185 Signal/WhatsApp. View the video archive of past events.
EXPLORING THE QUESTIONS
Ritual - to reimagine the future that we are stepping into, and what are are the superhero powers/innate purposes in life/guiding philosophies that we are conjuring and embodying to get there.
ReCreation post apocalypse: what are our creation stories that can teach us about resilience in the remaking of the world.
What is the Message from Humans to Earth of Love in a Time of Corona?
During these dark times, what is the light that each of us carries, as constellations?
At a time of DisDancing: what is the message from human-to-human; what is the sacred invisible web that connects us?
Can intuition, imagination, and Indigenous science that parallels quantum theory, bring us together over vast distances of places, time, difference to meet in the spaces between - the connective tissue, the flow, the infinite, liminal space, the life force energy we all share?
Artists
Tisina Parker : Social Impact Producer
Rulan Tangen : Director/Choreographer in collaboration with artists
QVLN : Music Director
Multi Artist Dancers/Vocalists/Speakers/ Cultural Collaborators:
Jade Whaanga
Eugene “Trey” Pickett III
Dakota Alcantara-Camacho
Lumhe Micco Sampson
Livestreaming I.F.: Indigenous Futurities: Dancing Earth in CyberSpace, presented by Toasterlab
Livestreaming I.F.: Indigenous Futurities: Dancing Earth in CyberSpace
Collaborating artist visionaries reveal cyberspace as a realm of ritual, to reimagine the future.
Thurs, June 18, 2020
6:30pm PDT . 9:30pm EDT
Toasterlab presents I.F. : Indigenous Futurities : Dancing Earth in CyberSpace livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv.
Collaborating artist visionaries reveal cyberspace as a realm of ritual, to reimagine the future from the brink of collapse of the dominant system and re-emergence of Indigenous cosmologies. Technology is reclaimed to affirm connections between distant places and times. At a time of DisDancing: what is the message from human-to-human; what is the sacred invisible web that connects us? We reach into the constellations to remember ancestral stories of creation after destruction, to guide us forward.
We extend our gratitude to Colorado College 3X3 and Toasterlab for support of this vision! Read more about 3X3 Projects HERE.
About HowlRound TV
HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based peer produced, open access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world's performing arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and to develop our knowledge commons collectively. Participate in a community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our participate page. For any other queries, email tv@howlround.com, or call Vijay Mathew at +1 917.686.3185 Signal/WhatsApp. View the video archive of past events.
EXPLORING THE QUESTIONS
Ritual - to reimagine the future that we are stepping into, and what are are the superhero powers/innate purposes in life/guiding philosophies that we are conjuring and embodying to get there.
ReCreation post apocalypse: what are our creation stories that can teach us about resilience in the remaking of the world.
What is the Message from Humans to Earth of Love in a Time of Corona?
During these dark times, what is the light that each of us carries, as constellations?
At a time of DisDancing: what is the message from human-to-human; what is the sacred invisible web that connects us?
Can intuition, imagination, and Indigenous science that parallels quantum theory, bring us together over vast distances of places, time, difference to meet in the spaces between - the connective tissue, the flow, the infinite, liminal space, the life force energy we all share?
Artists
Tisina Parker : Social Impact Producer
Rulan Tangen : Director/Choreographer in collaboration with artists
QVLN : Music Director
Multi Artist Dancers/Vocalists/Speakers/ Cultural Collaborators:
Jade Whaanga
Eugene “Trey” Pickett III
Dakota Alcantara-Camacho
Lumhe Micco Sampson
REFLECTION POOL AFTER PARTY
IF: Indigenous Futurities Dancing Earth in Cyberworld Performance
RSVP EVENT - JOIN US!!!!
Thursday, June 18
7-8pm PDT / 10-11pm EDT
REGISTRATION LINK
Pre-registration required for attendance
Join Dancing Earth for Reflection Pool After Party for an interactive conversation about the creation and content of IF: Indigenous Futurities Dancing Earth In Cyberworld. This after party will be moderated by dance/theatre innovative professionals in the creative world.
INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION
Together we will explore topics brought forth during the IF: Performance including:
- What messages would you give to fellow humans at this time?
- What messages would you give to Earth at this time?
- What are your dreams for the future?
MUSIC & DANCE PARTY
After discussion live music will be hosted by Quetzal Guerrero w/ a community dance party!
Beloved Dancing Earth Community
Some of you have expressed interest in the interactivity, which we will be developing into various formats for this to be a collective and communal engagement, before during and after June 18th.
So, feel free to share writing in a doc, video of yourself speaking and//or moving, audio recording, photo of self or drawing or writing in response to ANY of the 4 prompts, with your name and location, or anonymous if you prefer.
opening dedication
names of people, places,
entities, invocations
msg Human to Humans at this time
msg of Humans to Earth at this time
your dream for the future
a concise summary
Hozho In Motion w/ Natalie Benally, hosted by Dancing Earth
Hozho In Motion w/ Natalie Benally, hosted by Dancing Earth
RELEASE - REBUILD - REJUVENATE
Thursday, May 28
Join Natalie on Zoom!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83132835058?pwd=Tm55ZkdMRnJJci9tTzRQWFhpVGwwQT09
MEETING ID: 831 3283 5058
PASSWORD: 085993
SLIDING SCALE DONATION: $0-$100
Venmo: @Natalie-Benally
DONATE TO SUPPORT OUR DANCING EARTH INSTRUCTORS HERE:
https://dancingearth.org/support-us
ABOUT THIS CLASS
"Hozho" is the Diné philosophy of life. It means balance and harmony in all aspects of life. The class will be centered around finding hozho in our bodies, our minds, our hearts and our spirits.
For those of us who work with and for communities, taking time to release stress, rebuild our energy and rejuvenate our minds and bodies is essential. Some of us give a lot of ourselves to our work and the time and space to be home can be used to give ourselves a bit of love and attention. We will work with movement to undo and release any stress in the body and utilize breath and sound to give intention and healing to our whole selves and to each other. This class is for all ages.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Natalie Benally is a Dine, Zuni, Ute and Mexican woman who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Theater- Performing and Directing from Fort Lewis College. She has been performing dance and theater for the last 10. She studied at the Dancing Earth Summer Institute and joined the company for touring of US and Norway. Some of her most notable work includes lending her voice to the lead role of Dory in the Navajo dubbed version of Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo and directing/choreographing a devised production entitled "I'm Native And..." for Fort Lewis College inaugural Indigenous Arts Festival. Natalie works as the Indigenous Programs Coordinator for the non-profit organization, Girls Incorporated of Santa Fe.
ABOUT DANCING EARTH
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 in every aspect of artistic collaboration - including dance, choreography, music, costume, lighting, video, stage managing, and arts administration.