Greetings Dancing Earth Circle, Dancing Earth’s cohort of Peer-mentored Artist-Leaders are thrilled to offer our 12th annual Dancing Earth Summer Institute, which is a powerful incubator for emerging leadership, emphasizing inter-cultural embodied practices for creative world-makers. Participants from around the globe are selected for their outstanding potential for centering arts into powerful ways of understanding, learning, being and transforming this world. This marks our first year to bring the Summer Institute to Ohlone home territory, which they have sung and danced into renewal since the beginning of time and into the infinite future. I want to reach out to you personally because we have been interested in your life as a mover and shaker, and I think you would be an amazing participant! We invite your application for: - June 1-4 : ReSToring the Source Retreat (combining Movement as Medicine and Practicing principles of Ancestral Knowledge)
And - June 5-12 Dancing Earth Intensive (the Restoring the Source retreat or previous Movement as Medicine weeklong Institutes are mandatory for DESI applicants! )
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"I had no idea what to expect my first day working with Dancing Earth, and with two weeks of rigorous training ahead of me, I was outside all the comfort zones I had created for myself culturally, and as an artist and not a trained dancer. All I knew is that I felt like I needed to be there. “ - Lupita Salazar |
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More about the Summer Institute: - We come together to build relationship with self, each other, and our surroundings through the exchange of diverse creative practices, The Summer Institute of ReStoring the Source retreat (combining Movement as Medicine and Practicing Principles of Ancestral Knowledge) and the “Intensive" (as it's called by alumna!) may be truly our most transformative project annually, cultivating limitless potential for inspiration.
- Together we would experience the multi-dimensional benefits of daily movement practice, movement for making community, movement for building (for specific social change initiatives), explore restorative/sustainability practices, and engage in community sessions to activate reciprocity.
- Through your participation, each and every one of you take part in the future of Dancing Earth in some form. For example, all of Dancing Earth's company artists have participated in at least one intensive before being cast in the professional and touring cast, while others joined as collaborators, apprentices, volunteers, visual artists, and enthusiasts. Our circle is open.
I am inspired to move forward with you, thank you for your time and care in response! |
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"During DE Summer Institute, I was able to express and explore my Indigenous heritage by learning from others, and opening myself to what I had often suppressed because it went against “western” cultural norms. We all found connection with each other as passionate artists that care for our cultures, communities, and the earth. We came to depend on one another and formed strong friendships. I was able to challenge my body beyond what I had preciously believed to be “my boundaries.” Through our dances I discovered a way in which I could connect mind, body, and spirit. Telling a story through an experience and working to cause positive change." - Lupita Salazar |
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Your support strengthens our ability to work towards our vision of creating a more vibrant, curious, and equitable society that unifies creative community artists and culture.We thank you for your help in supporting and working with us. Lots of love, |
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