Artists get creative, offer original innovative shows at Kingsbury Hall

November 24, 2020
Sugar House Journal

by Drew Crawford

As cases of Covid-19 in Salt Lake City continue to surge, Kingsbury Hall is hosting innovative virtual performances by veteran artists who are eager to try out new ways of showcasing their work.

“It hasn’t so much been about what’s the research behind it, what should we do, it’s been about each individual project relationship with an artist and saying, ‘What can we do if we can’t be together?’” Executive Director of Kingsbury Hall Brooke Ellen Horejsi said, describing the venue’s novel approach to putting on their shows.

Dancing Earth Press, 6 Editor-Approved Performances Happening Onstage and Online This Month

Dance artists are no strangers to making it work. From brand-new premieres to digital reimaginings, these six performances, slated to find stages and screens this month, prove just how true that is. Published by Dance Magazine.

Dancing Earth’s BTW US Cyberspace imagines digital space as a realm of creative gathering and regeneration.

November 3, 2020
Southwest Contemporary

by Tamara Johnson

In a year of social distancing and division, global Indigenous dance company Dancing Earth uses digital space for creative gathering and (re)generation. The art they make convening “here” feels like contemporary ritual. Dancing Earth’s current work, BTW US Cyberspace, constructs and inhabits a liminal realm between tradition and technology. The dancers forge a Mobius pathway through personal, political, ecological, and cosmological histories toward a vision of renewal.

November Digest: Augury, Ancestors, and Apocalypse, UtahPresents brings Dancing Earth

October 11, 2020
publisher: loveDancemore

All great artists are visionaries. Rulan Tangen, the artistic director of Contemporary Indigenous theater company, Dancing Earth, and a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow, proves the rule in BTW US CYBERSPACE, a virtual dance miniseries created in partnership with the Global Change & Sustainability Center at the University of Utah, in response to colonization, commodification, and climate crisis.

The Kennedy Center recently completed a short documentary about Dancing Earth for their Digital Learning Library, which we wanted to share with our special circle of supporters. CLICK HERE to watch!

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DANCING EARTH makes history at Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage

- Standing room only at all performances!

- With 1.6k views of the live stream in 48 hrs.

- 2.2k people visited the Kennedy Center website page during the two weeks prior to event.

While on site we were pleased to participate in:

Cultural welcoming from representatives of the local First Nations of Piscataway, Sebastian Medina-Tayac and Powhatan, Rose Powhatan, who Rulan first met on film set of The New World!

Digital learning film: The Kennedy Center will be releasing a Dancing Earth & Rulan Tangen Citizen Fellow artist profile on their Digital Learning platform.

Kennedy Center Youth Masters Dance Class with Dancing Earth, working with local, aspiring dancers. It was “Dance with a purpose.” said one class participant.

Dancing Earth was thrilled to perform SEEDS: REGENERATION for 280 school children at the Kennedy Center.

Intergenerational Community workshop at Dance Exchange in nearby Maryland.