Baile en la Calle Performance

May 3, 2020, between 12- 4pm
In front of murals of the Mission District.

Postponed due to Covid-19. Please stay safe!

DANCING EARTH will be holding performances and/or video installations at: 

Urban X Indigenous Festival on May 2, 2020

Postponed due to Covid-19. Please stay safe!

URBAN x INDIGENOUS (UxI) is a multi-disciplinary, inter-generational convening of artists, activists, incubators, scholars, and community members to honor our ancestors in a society which is driven by the act of leaving them behind. How do we thrive in a time and place that shoves our ancestral connections and indigenous ties to the side? What can we do as a community to ensure our earth is replenished and not a free-for-all wasteland driven by for-profit and for-politics? Why is it important for us to embrace our indigenous selves and find ways to integrate our urban lifestyle into our ancient ways? Who then do we become once we finally feel that we are fully whole as urban-indigenous dwellers  who do we become if we are not willing to be at peace with this at all? Envisioned in 2015 by hip hop dance artist and indigenous arts advocate, Samantha “SAMMAY” Dizon, this event invites the next generation of movers, shakers, and believers to remember those who lived before us so that we may breathe in the life force of today.

Photo by David K.

Hip Hop For Teens w/ Cuicacalli SF, sponsored by Dancing Earth

Tue, April 28, 2020
6:30 - 7:30pm, PST

CUICACALLI’S HIP-HOP IS DEVELOPED FROM DIFFERENT STYLES, INCLUDING JAZZ, TUTTING, STEPPING, BREAK DANCING.

ZOOM - VIRTUAL STUDIO - ONLINE
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88134988296?pwd=amNhbklGbmNBVFNnL0k1MjhMZXltUT09

Meeting ID: 881 3498 8296
Password: HIPHOPSF

About this Event

Hip hop is a dance style, that evolved from the hip hop culture. Hip-Hop is a relaxed, freestyle form of street dance that is set in a high-energy, fun, and fast paced environment. Dancers will incorporate their own personal rhythm with the latest dance moves.

Cuicacalli’s Hip-Hop is developed from different styles, including Jazz, Tutting, Stepping, Break dancing etc. Hip hop is a very energetic form of dancing. It is unique and that allows ours dancers to perform with freedom of movement, adding in their own personalities.

Kim Nadine Dokes, HIP-HOP INSTRUCTOR:

Kim Nadine Dokes; originally from Geilenkirchen Germany, began her dance training in ballet at the age of 5. Being the daughter of Sergeant Major Anthony and Britta Dokes, she moved all over the world studying and performing other genre's of dance; including jazz, contemporary, and hip hop. She earned her B.F.A in modern dance at Hollins University. Kim has also trained at the Alvin Ailey summer intensive program in NY. She has taught hip hop to students at the American Dance Festival at Duke University and Us Performing Arts camps at Stanford University. After college she moved to California permanently, where she has been performing professionally for companies like PlayStation, McDonalds, Yelp, and on BET's 106&Park. Performing is her true passion and Kim thrives to share all she has learned with young aspiring dancers.

Cuicacalli performance at De Young for Frida Kahlo

exhibition opening: March 21st, 12-4 pm

Cancelled due to Covid-19. Please stay safe!

We are so proud of the amazing young dancers of Cuicacalli Escuela de Danza (our associate Bay Area dance program, under the brilliant leadership of Jesus “Jacoh” Cortes, former soloist of Ballet Folklorico de Mexico, and Dancing Earth), who are selected to present their folklorico dances at the opening of the Frida Kahlo exhibition opening at the De Young Museum on Ohlone lands of Yelamu (also known as San Francisco ).

Please enjoy this free event of art, music, and celebration of this iconic Mexican artist!