Reaching our 19th year to revise, reimagine, renew and transform. |
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September 7-10, 2023 Presented by DANCING EARTH with special thanks to Tala Mai Moana as Cultural Visioning Partner. Hosted at DANCE MISSION and Cal State East Bay. Deeply rooted, restorative, rest, rejuvenation - rooted in full circle for community and love. “The Source” is a gathering of intercultural experiences of multi-disciplinary creativity, wellness, and compassion – conjured by and for our diverse communities. In partnership with Dance Mission Theatre in September 2023, this 4-day cultural-spiritual nourishing exchange evokes Reciprocity and Relationship; Imagination, and Dreaming. Dancing Earth’s cooperative artist leaders intend to collectively restore, nourish, and embrace our community to “Come As You Are”, “Create As You Are”, “Experience As You Are”, and finally “Reflect As You Are”-- through an immersive community experience of ritual, performance, workshops, cultural shares, and ancestral connectivity through multiple exchanges. Co-curated through the channels and community of Tala Mai Moana (TMM) the stories from the oceans of the South Pacific as cultural visioning partner – – this gathering interweaves DE’s 19+ years in the community as refreshed with vision from TMM’s founding legacy. This gathering celebrates Intergenerational Cultural Creative Leaders, while creating space that invites all to participate in honoring the stories from the Past while creating new pathways of RE-Sourcing into the future. Save the date for experiences that ground us to what gives us the most earth and life! |
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ARTIST HIGHLIGHT at The Source Save-the-Date Friday Evening, September 8th Eco Elegies - Ritual of Re:Mix is a series of interdisciplinary, multisensory performance rituals that responds to time, place, and people. Reflecting diversity as a centering principle, we explore DE's emerging concept of “mixed-icism” as a template for relation-building and adaptation in the age of climate crisis. Each Eco Elegy Ritual iteration is an experiential and immersive journey that invites audiences to become active participants in reconnecting to themselves, each other and the world, summoning in love, gratitude, wonder and compassion for every life form as part of a sacred ecosystem. |
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Dancing Earth Creations dynamically activates our mission, to create contemporary dance and related arts through global indigenous and intercultural relationships centered in ecological and cultural diversity for creativity, health, and wellness. Founded by Artistic Director Rulan Tangen, to serve a need rarely met in the USA, DEC gives hope and opportunity to Native, mixed, global Indigenous and BIPOC talent who have been largely outside the dialogue of mainstream performance because of lack of access. DEC is an organic constellation of largely self-taught dancers, composers, costumers, filmmakers, and spoken word artists. Together, DEC artists work with community members, culture carriers, and inter-cultural elders to explore the rich diversity of ancestral heritage, contemporary identity, and relationship building, by collaborating on innovative ecologically themed performances. DEC’s work promotes environmental awareness, cultural diversity, and understanding between peoples through contemporary arts expressions. “We gather as individual artists to create experimental yet elemental dances that reflect our rich cultural heritage as contemporary global peoples. We strive to embody the unique essences of cultural perspectives by creation and renewal of artistic and cultural movement rituals. Ancient and futuristic, our dances are an elemental language of bone and blood memory in motion.” - Founding Director, Rulan Tangen |
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Your Donations Help Support Dancing Earth's: * International cultural exchange programs (recent and upcoming engagement with artists, community groups and culture carriers in Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Australia and New Zealand), to create compassionate and sustainable relationships for creativity beyond borders. * Mentorship program for emerging artists leaders, spanning peer mentorship in administrative management, fundraising, budgeting, producing, grant writing, contracting, support for developing directorial and choreographic practice, coaching solo works, and community networks for workshops - and the vast creative skills needed to sustain a free lance performance career! * Cultivating high quality multi-media iterations to archive live work and as independent creative projects - as archival film footage is so often requested by our communities! * Summer Institute scholarships for incredible emerging artist-humanists! |
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