Dancing Earth artistic residency culminating in performances titled : “weaving waters"
September brings movement to Wildflower Playhouse, with Dancing Earth's eco somatic movement work in artistic residency, exploring themes of land, water, and celestial navigation.
The individual and collective body's intuition, imagination, and memory will weave together strands of land and sky... wind and water guiding migrations... navigating by stars and nurturing seeds as offerings... breathing the plant medicines of trees and flowers... in a journey of restoring and re-story-ing relationships with inner and outer dreamscapes and all forms of life in between.
Featuring daily open public workshops led by Founding Artistic Director/Choreographer Rulan Tangen of Dancing Earth, joined by Māori guest artist Jade Whaanga from New Zealand. Select local community dance artists will be invited to join the creative process to create : “... weaving waters … “ a performance ritual of embodied story that weaves solos and small group works with multi-sensory engagement of participants.
“ …. Weaving waters …” will feature
Friday evening Sept 12 will be preceded by beloved artistic colleague Erin Currier's powerful dance-inspired paintings in a gallery opening
Saturday evening Sept 13 and artist/audience dialogues following performance
Daily workshops Sept 6-11 are intended for all levels, ages, bodies and backgrounds, featuring Jade Whaanga’s Moana in Motion, EARTH BODY eco somatic movements, The Flowering Way morning meditations, Earth Warrior lunchtime fitness, and Dancing Earth's movement language developed over 20 years.
"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."
DAILY WORKSHOPS WITH RULAN
Sat, Sept 6 - Thu, Sept 11
ERIN CURRIER GALLERY OPENING
Fri, Sept 12, 5pm - 7pm
PERFORMANCE
Fri, Sept 12, 7pm
Sat, Sept 13, 7pm
PRESENTED BY
Dancing Earth and WildFlower Playhouse
Detailed Schedule of Activities open to community
SEPTEMBER 6 - 13
NOTE ALL WORKSHOPS Cost: $10-50 sliding scale, pay what you can
Saturday, September 6
10-11 AM: EARTH BODY MOVEMENT FOR ALL Workshop with Rulan
11 AM - 12 PM: DANCING EARTH Elements
(More rigorous physical language for participants with dance training/conditioning, who participate in previous workshop )
Sunday, September 7
2-3 PM: EARTH BODY MOVEMENT FOR ALL Workshop with Rulan
3-4 PM: DANCING EARTH Elements
(More rigorous physical language for participants with dance training/conditioning, who participate in previous workshop )
Monday, September 8
9-10 AM: The Flowering Way Morning Movement Meditation with Rulan
Tuesday, September 9
1-2 PM: Earth Warriors Lunchtime Fitness with Rulan
Wednesday, September 10
9-10 AM: The Flowering Way Morning Movement Meditation with Rulan
Thursday, September 11
1-2 PM: Earth Warriors Lunchtime Fitness with Rulan
Friday, September 12
5-7 PM: Erin Currier Gallery Opening
7 PM: Evening Premiere Performance ‘Weaving Waters’ with Post-Show event
Cost: $20-100 sliding scale, pay what you can
Saturday, September 13
1-2 PM: "Moana in Motion" Workshop with Jade Whaanga
7 PM: Evening Performance ‘Weaving Waters’ with Post-Show Q&A
Cost: $20-100 sliding scale, pay what you can
Lead Artists BIOS
Rulan Tangen is a creatrix: dancer and dreamvisioner. After an international dance career in ballet and modern dance, opera, circus, film and TV, she survived cancer to discover her passionate purpose as Founding Artistic Director of Dancing Earth. Since 2021 Dancing Earth has re-articulated into inter-cultural creations, with BIPOC and mixed heritage humans dancing by, with, and for the earth. Recently awarded the Kennedy Center Citizen Artist fellowship, her ancestral lineage includes Kampampangan/Pangasinan of Luzon Island in Pacific archipelago of Philippines, and connections to Norway, France, and Ireland. Rulan's work values movement as an expression of collective and collaborative eco-somatic worldviews, with dance as a functional ritual for transformation and healing.
Jade Whaanga is an Aotearoa/New Zealand based Indigenous Movement Artist of Ngāti Kahungunu - Ngati Rongomaiwahine (Māori) ancestry. She completed her Masters in Dance Studies at The University of Auckland, with research focusing on re-claiming the indigenous feminine body and healing historical trauma through dance as ritual. Since 2017 she has been facilitating Hui Wāhine (women circles) and Hui Ringatoi (Artist gatherings) for Nū Collective, which creates Indigenous Contemporary Performance Art, "Embracing Wellness Through Creativity, Culture, and Connection."