Reflecting into 2021
In 2020, Dancing Earth was able to overcome immense challenges to launch unanticipated and innovative online offerings with creative resilience and joyous positivity. This is something we had only dreamed about in the past, but due to the constraints we had from the pandemic, we got down with our imaginations and drew this dream into reality.
Read MoreLast of Fall Harvest 2020, Dancing Earth News
Fall 2020 Events including: PPAK: Journeys in Native Food Sovereignty & BTW US Cyberspace, "Life Giving, Living +LIVE Closing Party!" November 20th. Tickets includes access to the live/synchronous stream on Nov 20th as well as five episodes released earlier this month. All content will be available for ticket buyers through Nov 30th.
Read MoreBTW US Cyberspace: Dancing Earth Creates a World Together, Dancing Earth News
Article by Tamara Johnson for Southwest Contemporary. "In a year of social distancing and division, global Indigenous dance company Dancing Earth uses digital space for creative gathering and (re)generation. The art they make convening “here” feels like contemporary ritual. Dancing Earth’s current work, BTW US Cyberspace, constructs and inhabits a liminal realm between tradition and technology."
Read MoreUpcoming Events: PPAK & BTW US Cyberspace at UtahPresents, Dancing Earth News
“The next step, of the future, is the dance to be made by us all collectively, the energy of continual renewal… So the open portal of possibility is brought into the audience, for us all to dream and co-create together…“
Read MoreToday’s LIVE Event at ASU Gammage, Dancing Earth News
Dancing Earth's BTW US CyberSpace, Preview. Presented by ASU Gammage. Watch it Live!
Read MorePERSONAL STATEMENT OF IDENTITY
SUMMARY
Dancing Earth Founder and Artistic Director Rulan Tangen’s mixed ancestral heritage is Kampampangan and Pangasinan from Luzon Island, known colonially as part of Pacific archipelago of the Philippines, and Norweigian/Irish lineage, while she lives in the partition of Turtle Island which is often referred to as the U.S. For over four decades, Tangen has been invited into, and extended invitations for, collaborative work with global Indigenous artists and intergenerational community members locally and globally. Dancing Earth has been committed to working with Native American, global, and mixed Indigenous artists to support, nurture, and highlight diverse Indigenous embodied values and ways of being through creative artistic practice.
Revitalizing Autumnal Equilibrium, Dancing Earth News
At this time of equinox, we reflect on the need for balance amongst all forms of life on earth. We reach out with our dances to heal, to hope, to ground, to question, to reach, to dream...as we pray for good health, clear air, and an end to the devastating fires raging across the west coast of the U.S.
Read MoreRulan Tangen joins The Bridge Virtual Dance Institute as a Guest Artist, Dancing Earth News
The Bridge welcomes new guest artist Rulan Tangen. Rulan offers the session as an opening to ancient ideas of movement, sound and rhythm, as central to rituals for transformation, while embracing cyberspace as a realm of intercultural exchange and collaboration that paves the way to embodiment of imagined realm of liberation.
Read MoreC5 Videos & Feedback - Cultural Collaborative Cyberspace Content Creation, Dancing Earth News
Videos from Screening C5 : Cultural Collaborative Cyberspace Content Creation. Enjoy these two digital dance work created during Dancing Earth's 2020 Online Summer Intensive, C5 : Cultural Collaborative Cyberspace Content Creation.
Read MoreFeedback from Our Participants Movement as Medicine Summer Institute in the Cyberworld.
We are pleased celebrate our first amazingly courageous and intuitive Cohort of online Summer Institute participants; each depicted here in a devised form emerging from connection to qualities of empowerment.
Read MoreWe are so grateful, Thank You! Dancing Earth News
As Founding Artistic Director of DANCING EARTH, I felt the great shift this year has brought: much loss, sorrow, pain and with it an opportunity for truth and for re-imagining. With support from our circle, we have been able to meet this challenge with creativity and collaboration, to meet the moment, and welcome, in online practices, an uplifting of our incredible artists and our communities.
Read MoreA gift on Earth Day, Our Embodied Hopes, Dancing Earth News
All of you who love the experience of nature at National Parks, must be feeling the isolation pretty hard, so we invite you to stay safe at home while experiencing the power of the elements through our movements! “In a moment of apocalypse, young Indigenous people find glimmers of resilience, hope, and courage to dream in a better future for the earth and all living beings.”
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