DANCING EARTH makes history at Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage
Dancing Earth Youth Masters Workshop: The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. April 24th, 2019.
DANCING EARTH makes history at Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage
- Standing room only at all performances!
- With 1.6k views of the live stream in 48 hrs.
- 2.2k people visited the Kennedy Center website page during the two weeks prior to event.
UPDATE, 3/2020: The Kennedy Center recently completed a short documentary about Dancing Earth for their Digital Learning Library, which we wanted to share with our special circle of supporters. CLICK HERE to watch!
“Bravo for delivering such intense and extravagant work at a time when I feel artists are not being powerful enough.” -Fritz Masden, artist”
“Incredible crowd and even more incredible performance! I very much look forward to connecting further!” -Becky”
While on site we were pleased to participate in:
Cultural welcoming from representatives of the local First Nations of Piscataway, Sebastian Medina-Tayac and Powhatan, Rose Powhatan, who Rulan first met on film set of The New World!
Digital learning film: The Kennedy Center will be releasing a Dancing Earth & Rulan Tangen Citizen Fellow artist profile on their Digital Learning platform.
Kennedy Center Youth Masters Dance Class with Dancing Earth, working with local, aspiring dancers. It was “Dance with a purpose.” said one class participant.
Dancing Earth was thrilled to perform SEEDS: REGENERATION for 280 school children at the Kennedy Center.
Intergenerational Community workshop at Dance Exchange in nearby Maryland.
As Rulan’s Citizen Artist fellowship for 2018-19 ended:
She joined the April 29th Arts Summit Citizen Artist panel and welcoming of new cohort of Citizen Artists where she was presented with a superhero doll in her image - wearing the B.Yellowtail gown and Peace Fits hip pouch she had worn the year before!
Congratulations to Rulan’s fellow Citizen Artists, Justus Harris, Shaw Pong Li, Omar Offendum and Donney Rose. We hope to hear and see all of the wonderful, impactful work they create on their journeys.
Our recent success at the Kennedy Center that celebrated Dancing Earth is made possible by the generous support of New England Foundation for the Arts/National Dance Project.
“This is one of the best performances we have ever seen here, and I have seen a lot of shows!” -“J” Kennedy Center, Full Time Usher”
