Afro-Somatic with Trey Vision & UxI 2020: Urban-Indigenous Futurism, hosted by Dancing Earth
Afro-Somatic with Trey Vision
Thurs, June 11
5pm PDT . 8pm EDT
African Disaporic, Mind Body Healing, Ancestral & Futuristic
Natalie Benally’s much anticipate workshop with UxI 2020: Urban-Indigenous Futurism on Thursday June 11 from 5-6pm PDT, will be joined by Dancing Earth warrior brother Trey Vision, of proud Afro-Native heritage. We send our love to Natalie Benally who returns home to Navajo Nation to be with family as her relatives moves into the ancestral realm. Assist Natalie’s Family cost HERE.
This nation is looking now towards black people: to support, ask for direction, and repair what has been broken. With strength, compassion and dignity Eugene Trey Pickett III will offer AFRO-SOMATICS!
Registration page notes Natalie’s class, but is for AFRO-Somatic with Trey Vision. photo © Jennifer Esperanza
Hozho in Motion
w/ Natalie Benally & UxI 2020: Urban-Indigenous Futurism
Thurs, June 11
5pm PDT . 8pm EDT
PAY WHAT YOU CAN Venmo: @Natalie-Benally
photo by Tachiinii Photography
ABOUT THIS 1HR 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.
photo by Kuuyam
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.
Movement As Medicine w/ Rulan Tangen & UxI 2020: Urban-Indigenous Futurism
Movement As Medicine w/ Rulan Tangen & UxI 2020: Urban-Indigenous Futurism
Saturday, June 6
12-1:15pm PDT . 3-4:15pm EDT
Register HERE
PAY WHAT YOU CAN PayPal: Rulan@dancingearth.org
photo by Karla Flores
ABOUT THIS CLASS
This class invites people of all ages and abilities to build upon embodied knowledge of the previous classes, this time with a nonstop rhythmic flow based on the weight shift of walking. We start by grounding ourselves by articulating the feet, then try various rhythmic foot patterns, directions, coordinations 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, Robert Mirabal.
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.
postponed, Urban X Indigenous Festival
Urban X Indigenous Festival
May 2, 2020
In Ohlone Lands,
San Francisco Bay Area.
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.