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C5 Videos & Feedback,
Cultural Collaborative Cyberspace Content Creation
September 9, 2020
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.
C5 SUMMER INSTITUTE ARTISTS
Gabriella SharpFish
Emma Dewey
Sarah Hogland-Gurulé
Nancy Valdiviezo
Melody Kauff
Franceska D'Oro
Jade Whaanga
Creative Direction: Rulan Tangen
Teaching Assistant: Esmé Olivia
Video Tech Assistance: Jon Sims & Azteca Sirias
Video Editing: Mabel Valdiviezo & Jade Whaanga
WARNING: This video may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.
OHTLI - A Visual Healing of the Paths We Walk - By Creatress: Laura Yohualtlahuiz as a part of Dancing Earth's Cyber Summer Intensive - Music by: Dancing Earth. Created by InShot
Feedback from Our C5 Participants
Cultural Collaborative Cyberspace Content Creation
August 2-7, 2020
DE: What brought you joy?
Being in connection with all the indigenous descendants of many parts of the globe… Mabel V.
Communing with the land through movement and in emulations. big beautiful togetherness and community. getting inspired and excited by each other and our creativity. learning from one another…. Sarah H.G.
Connection! To feel connected in such an open and free space for self-expression, exploration, and truth was incredibly refreshing in what can be such an impersonal digital space… Franceska O.
DE: What surprised/challenged you?
I was surprised how much my relationship to the screen and camera changed. I began to see it more as a relative and less invasive… Jade W.
I was surprised at how much fun I had dancing on my own! I was afraid at the beginning of filming and looking at myself, because video was a format I always shied away from due to insecurity. But I really enjoyed performing for camera, and was actually proud of what I created… Franceska O.
DE: How did you grow during this experience? Has this enhanced your relationship with self, others, environment, and if so, how?
I am more conscious of the sacredness of the land, water, air, fire... I can feel them inside myself... I can evoke and invoke them in dance and in daily life… Mabel V.
My relationship to being online has shifted, before I felt quite detached and through this experience I've felt far more connected to others collaborating online. It has been amazing to grow relationships to others and my relationship to technology. I feel more at peace with the process of creating digital content, I'm excited to experiment and play without getting hung up on any doubt… Jade W.
This experience supported me in stretching into zones of discomfort and insecurity, places where limiting beliefs stifled what could be possible. In the space of our collective process I felt encouraged to engage the spaces of the unknown and to move through that which keeps me bound to the forms of the familiar... Melodie K.
DE: How has your perception of technologies shifted/expanded during C5?
I'm thinking about the moments where I really felt everyone's bodies in my room, and how real the connection between us is despite our physical distances… Emma D.
I have a new outlook on digital technology, I use to see it as separate from indigeneity but now I see how it is birthed from ancestor's technology over the years. I also see how the camera is an immortal eye that captures messages for our descendants… Jade W.
DE: In what ways do you feel healthier?
These aren't the most precise words, but -- this knowledge that I was reminded of throughout both MAM and C5, that the medicine or spiritual wholeness that I need is always already inside my body, like the ever present roar of the ocean I was talking about on the last day, is absolutely making me feel healthier. I feel healthier in knowing my own power and our collective powers… Emma D.
This space offered a generous amount of care to my nervous system and creative force… Sarah H.G.
DE: How can your growth for this experience impact others at this time of global transformation?
I'm trying to think about how I can carry this sense of connection into other zoom spaces, because I feel like prior to these intensives all the group zooms I've been a part of have been largely negative experiences. In general I want to carry this radical potential of technology out into the world, and to be a lot more intentional about how I use tech in my daily life so that those around me can share in these embodied lessons I've been gifted… Emma D.
Living my own practice of releasing into the unknown and being able to listen there for something beautiful that emerges feels like a life-skill for the times that I hope becomes easier for youth to access through seeing adults in their lives rigorously engaged in personal process of transformation. And transformation as a place of joy and increased beauty and possibility that inspires the courage to engage… Melodie K.
