CALL FOR CREATIVES (“AUDITION” ) DANCING EARTH re-emerges into a blossoming of creativity in 2023 with an open call to dance artists for a new work being created by dream visioner/Creatrix Rulan Tangen (also known as Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer ). This spring, connecting with intriguing movers, we invite you to respond to a writing and video request, and/or participate in Summer Intensive June 1-12 at Cal State East Bay with international cultural artist ambassadors. This could be a good fit for those who - feel called by their intuition to the concept of “mixed-icism”
- who are involved in eco-oriented practices ( herbalists, hikers, tree huggers, seed planters, etc !),
- who have a commitment to an embodied practice as a significant aspect of their lives ( not necessarily studio based )
- who are interested in creating in many conditions: indoor, outdoor, self-directed, online, out of the box …
Including but not limited to: intergenerational, intercultural (ancestral lineage, and/or chosen families of culture ), non-binary, multilingual, trans-territorial, and others who have found themselves outside or beyond prescribed definitions. This process is most relevant and accessible to movers who are : - In the Bay Area, creating toward September 9th performance at Dance Mission Theater
- In the Palm Springs area, creating toward October performance
- In Santa Fe NM area, for an extended seasonal creative process
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WHAT: participation in “RITUAL OF RE:MIX, An Eco-Elegy” Re-MIx explores the concept of mixed identity as a template for relation-building and adaptation in the age of climate crisis. Stemming from our body’s community-engaged knowledge-sourcing, we will develop a contemporary ritual beyond notions of the proscenium stage, with “mixed” collaborators. Through nuanced and complex corporeal experiences to explore Dancing Earth’s “mixed-icism”, the ideas of identity, race, nationality, worldview, ancestry, and religions will be deconstructed and expanded to look beyond the binary to cultivate an alternative to the dehumanizing, essentializing, and compartmentalizing of identity within wide view of ecological diversity as the source and living metaphor. Choreographically, this “re-mix” is rooted in Dancing Earth’s land-dance practice - blending magical realism while suspending time - while moving into a relationship with complex rhythms of urban settings. We will uncover specific forms of movement that are guided by forces of nature, emerging distinctive combinations of these elements as the liminal spaces of alchemy for transformation. The performance ritual will be at the center of an offering that includes artists facilitating a multi-sensory, multi-dimension, experience for the community, to activate space with love, pleasure, joy, and wellness. |
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HOW to get to know Rulan’s process/vision for this work, and share your movement creativity for consideration? - Join us online for Restoring The Source classes on March 5, and March 19th.
- Join live creative session in Bay Area on March 11th @2:30pm
- June 1-12 Summer Institute 2023
PERFORMANCE RITUAL PRESENTATIONS September 9th in Bay Area, CA, October 14-15, and/or 21-22, in Southern California, and in Santa Fe, New Mexico. PROCESS Rehearsals will be online self-directed with the possibility of self-filming and sharing, on-site in Bay Area in September as well as on-site in the Palm Springs area in October, to infuse the movement into relationships with surrounding land, ritual space, and communities. In New Mexico for seasonal infusions into urban and desert spaces. COMPENSATION Core collaborators selected and available for the requested times will be compensated for rehearsals and performances. Additional movers who are selected but who have less availability will be compensated for performances. ABOUT RULAN Rulan Tangen began her dance journey in San Francisco in a previous era, returning after an international career ( ballet, modern, circus, opera, film, television) to bring to life DANCING EARTH which made its debut at Dance Mission in 2004. Originally making new opportunities for global Indigenous emerging artists of all genres, Dancing Earth is now explicitly intercultural and inclusive to serve an ecological focus. Dancing Earth has been honored with invitations to serve and inspire communities in 19 states and 9 countries, with Bay Area performances including at Dance Mission, Presidio Theater, Yerba Buena Gardens, Joaquin Miller Park for Seeds and Soul Festival, Alcatraz for the sunrise ceremony on SF’s first official Indigenous Peoples Day, and CS East Bay’s Inclusive Performance Festival. Rulan was awarded Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellowship for Service, Justice, Freedom, Courage, and Gratitude. Learn More About Rulan: More about Dancing Earth : PLEASE CONTACT CC about any questions. |
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