June 2005
Rulan performed spoken word poetry in a dance piece by Kevin Iega (choreographer of Deeply Rooted Dance Ensemble) for the Moving People concert at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe.
Alex Meraz made his first short film, "Burning Water", for submission to the ImagineNative (www.imaginenative.org) film festival in Toronto , congratulations!
Rulan Tangen was invited to appear solo at Odyssey Dream, an international literary and arts festival in Amman, Jordan in August/September. She was able to recommend 6 more DANCING EARTH performers, as well as several of the New World core warriors, additional powwow dancers, graffiti artists, filmmakers, photographers and poets, to be on the list for a possible delegation of more than 30 Native artists for participation as representative of the United States!
On Sunday June 19, Rulan performed at the first Annual "Sounds of Change" fundraiser held outside the Bikanda Capoeira Space. The benefit was on behalf of the Berimbau Foundation's "Project Life", a multi-aspected project that includes bringing capoiera, permaculture, dance and other forms to disenfranchised youth, within a filmed documentary. Other guest participants came from Brasil, Africa, many Native people were present, as well as circus performers, fire swallowers, percussionists, DJs and incredible cuisine cooked on site including west indian, jamaican, and soul food !
Rulan and Kalani were featured in a live interview June 1st on KPFA radio station, 1pm pacific standard time.
Raoul and Rulan are now on a new 'podcast' on the website www.thenewworldmovie.com, under Blogs, under Native Movement, describing the process and research involved in creating the movement quality of Native peoples in the historic period of early contact.
Rulan was invited to perform a solo for the dance nOw/nyc festival (www.dancenownyc.org) in september, performing at the cathedral of St John the Divine. Mark your calendars for September 13 at 7:30 pm, the opening of the 'sacred' dance element of the experimental modern dance festival. She is considering dancing to Robert Mirabal's "Witch Song", a powerful wordless song made in dedication to the sacred womens incantations that were suppressed by colonizing forces.