SEASONAL INSTITUTES
2020 - 2021
THIS INTENSIVE IS INTENDED FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE MOVEMENT, CULTURE, AND NATURE AND ARE NOT FULL TIME RIGOROUS MOVEMENT PRACTITIONERS. photo by Paulo J. da Rocha-Tavares
RE-STORYING:
Dancing Earth’s Online Winter Intensive
February 2-6, 2021
Early RSVP by
JANUARY 11, 2021
Tickets on sale until January 29, 2021.
ABOUT THE RE-STORYING SERIES
WINTER INSTITUTE : THE RE STORYING invites us into the winter season of spiraling inwards and outwards with story, quiet reflection, activation of warmth and compassion, and visioning of the future like a seed beneath snow.
People of all backgrounds, ages, and movement backgrounds are invited for a 3 day series (held every other day) to renew body, mind, spirit, emotions for seasonal dream-visioning. Sessions will include slow, reflective, somatic winter land dance, and re-story-ing of movement as expressive language of individual and collective imagination.
We welcome people who are interested in place based connection, empathetic embodied relationship building as a community, and exploring intentions for yourself, community, environment and the circle we build collectively.
Together we will experience the multi dimensional benefits of a daily practice of embodying : movement for making community, for reconnecting for place, and to responsibility as modern people to make movement rituals for the re-imagining and re-storying of our changing times.
This series welcomes those w/ strong interest/background in performing arts. Pre-requisite of participation in full RE-STORYING intensive.
C5: Cultural Collaborative Cyberspace Content Creation Online Winter Intensive
February 9-13, 2021
Early RSVP by
JANUARY 25, 2021
Tickets on sale until February 1, 2021.
ABOUT THE C5 WINTER INTENSIVE
This series welcomes people with performing arts background or strong interest, with pre-requisite of participation in full RE-STORYING Winter Intensive series.
We will move into cultural creative content-making for camera, in response to surroundings and conditions. Creative expression will be as collective response to a theme, rooted in cultural/ecological understandings emerging from Dancing Earth's Re-Storying Winter Intensive, with design specifically for DIY camera. We merge embodied ways of knowing with media technology experimentation for a vision of the future. The session will culminate in a recorded or live streamed outcome.
What to Bring
Each day to bring for their dinner, a meal that has a story
A quote, or several words that are your strength and inspiration (such as Compassion, Strength, etc.)
At least one ‘Icon' - such as image of artwork (bowl, weaving, beadwork, pattern, art piece, memento, photo, petroglyph, constellation, number, key, rock, writing etc ) that is meaningful/strengthening/inspiring to you, may represent what you come from - whether that means where, who, or a group you identify with as having shaped you, and/or your aspirations for the future
Water bottle, Notebook, bandanna, towel, comfortable clothes , blanket or yoga mat to lie down on.
A device with Zoom downloaded
Earphones (If you have them/ for occasional use)
Portable speaker (optional)
Enough space space to be able to lie down, and enough space to take 3 steps in every direction.
Optional yoga mat or blanket for floor work
ABOUT DANCING EARTH
Dancing Earth has been named by Dance Magazine as “One of the Top 25 to Watch,” and are recipients of the National Museum of American Indian’s 2010 Expressive Arts Award. Dancing Earth recruits, cultivates, and creates opportunities for emerging global Indigenous talents in all aspects of artistic collaboration - including dance, choreography, music, costume, lighting, video, stage managing, and arts administration.
Dancing Earth gathers Indigenous collaborators, including: Nations of Blackfoot, Metis, Coushatta, Ixil and Tzeltil Maya, Papanga, Cambiva, Yaqui, Purepecha, Shoshone, Dine, Tsalagi, Hopi, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, and Keresan of North Central and South America. They balance a commitment to share dances with regional, national and international communities at venues as varied as festivals, Universities, elementary-high schools, Native wellness gatherings, youth leadership symposiums, art museums, desert canyons, dried river beds, and symposiums for social-environmental justice.
Dancing Earth inspires creativity and cultural consciousness through community art practice, energetic dance training workshops, site specific rituals and full length eco-productions.
Summer 2020 Intensive
RECAP
Movement as Medicine
July 26-30, 2020
Videos from C5 Screening
September 5, 2020
A video documentary of the Summer Intensive where we create, learn and share cultural knowledge thru vessels of movement, music and art.
Movement as Medicine
July 26-30
This session is intended for people who love movement, culture, and nature and are not full time rigorous movement practitioners. Cultural protocols, cultural exchange, land dance training, restorative practices and a community engagement session to activate reciprocity.
People of all backgrounds, ages, and without extensive dance training are invited for People of all backgrounds, ages, and without extensive dance training are invited for a 3 day series (held every other day) to renew body, mind, spirit, emotions, individual and collective imagination through the healing power of movement.Sessions will include multi-disciplinary expressions such as land dance, somatic healing practices, cultural exchange, re-story-ing of movement, with independent study exercises for the day off.
Together we will experience and recommit to the multi dimensional benefits of a daily movement practice, movement for making community, movement for Movement Building (for specific social change initiatives), and for reconnection for life forms beyond human.
(42 choreographers, 1 dance) video directed by Mitchell Rose.
C5 : Cultural Collaborative Cyberspace
Content Creation
August 2-6
This series welcomes people with performing arts background or strong interest, with pre-requisite of participation in full MOVEMENT AS MEDICINE series.
We will move into cultural creative content-making for camera, in response to surroundings and conditions. Creative expression will be as collective response to a theme, rooted in cultural/ecological understandings emerging from Movement as Medicine, with design specifically for DIY camera. We merge embodied ways of knowing with media technology experimentation for a vision of the future. The session will culminate in a recorded or live streamed outcome.
Mobile-site immersive response to renewable energy. Filmed by Michael Lorenzo Lopez at Academy for Love of Learning, with Dancing Earth guest artists
Filmmaker Marion Wasserman of Elementa Designs and Louis Leray or Lerayimages.com.