ART + ACTIVISM No. 20

Next month WEAD has an exciting talk with artist, Rulan Tangen. She will discuss her experience as an artist, as well as how movement empowers her practice and connection to the earth. She will also explain how the body can reflect and generate a story, to potentially re-store and re-story the individual, the interpersonal, intercultural, interspecies and cosmic in connection.

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ART + ACTIVISM NO. 20: EARTH BODY

Rulan Tangen

Sunday, February 23, 2025, 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. PT

Rulan Tangen, Founding Artistic Director/Choreographer of Dancing Earth, shares her eco-somatic purpose and practices through compelling languages of movement and words. As a cancer survivor and lifelong professional dance artist, she reveals her personal experience of the life giving power of movement to empower and reconnect. Her intercultural work with artists, students, and communities throughout 18 states and 14 countries has been invited to facilitate creative response and contemporary ritual to local issues such as reforestation, sacred waters, solar energy, cultivating plants for medicine and food, and holistic health.
 

She will describe the influences and inspiration which have motivated her to develop over 28 methodologies in the last 20 years, (including Land Dance, The Flower Way, Bodies of Water; Spiral of Sensuous Somatic; Elemental Movements, Roots in Rhythm and Earth Body: Movement for All). These forms are shared with humans of all backgrounds through master classes, ritual dance theater performances, retreats, seasonal institutes, personal coaching, teacher trainings, and facilitation of group creative processes - in settings as diverse as canyons, theaters, museums, and forests.
 

With this offering, she hopes to ignite the relevance of embodiment of Eco Somatic movement as a source, instrument and response for ecological movement sustainability.