EARTH BODY : Movement for All, Celebrating Earth Day week!
Rulan of Dancing Earth, is honored to return to Taos at the Wildflower Playhouse in celebration of Earth Day week , to workshop of offer EARTH BODY : Movement for all - open and accessible to all humans of all ages and background . Through the flowering way of movement, we will restore and re-story the body as a part our sacred ecosystem and cosmos, the vessel of sacred waters between earth and sky . Centering breath as life and the power of simple movements , Rulan invokes Dancing Earth imagery that connects participants through multi sensory observation, memory, intuition and imagination into relationship with the inner dreamscape and outer landscape, with special attention to the plant beings that grow from seed to blossom. The dance circle will be an environment of encouragement, acceptance, bravery, joy, to revitalize our body and mind, heart and soul in the dance of life !
Please Bring :
Yourselves to the space a little early to settle in
Comfortable clothes, a bottle of water, open mind and open heart
a leaf, petal, drawing or photo of a flower or plant that you love
And, notebook/pencil optional
Date : APRIL 27 , 2025
Time : 11-1230
( Stay tuned, in September Rulan will return to Wildflower with Maori collaborator Jade Whaanga of New Zealand, for collaborative performance alongside art exhibition by Erin Currier !)
ARTIST BIO
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 ( www.dancingearth.org ) - initially motivated to create opportunities where there were almost none, for successive generations of global Indigenous and Native American performing artists as intercultural ambassadors and conduits for social change. Since 2021 Dancing Earth has re-articulated into inter-cultural creations, with BIPOC and mixed heritage humans dancing by, with, and for the earth. Collaboratively with community creatives, she cultivates innovative movement language as an evolving intercultural expression, rooted in body as source of knowing, making theater as ritual for transformation. Recently awarded the Kennedy Center Citizen Artist fellowship for Service, Justice, Freedom, Courage, and Gratitude, her own ancestral lineage includes Kampampangan/Pangasinan of Luzon Island in Pacific archipelago of Philippines, and to Norway, France, Ireland. Other honors include YBCA Creative Corps, A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art, Catalyst Initiative from Center for Performance and Social Practice, Arts & Social Change Award from Arts and Healing network, Costo Medal for Education Research and Community Service, NACF’s first Dance Fellowship for Artistic Innovation, New Mexico School for the Arts Community Leadership Award, National Dance Project Production/Touring award . 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.
1. TEDx talk - To dance is to live. To live is to dance : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOOVohQUrzg
2. Kennedy Center THE HUMAN JOURNEY profile of Rulan and DE : https://www.kennedy-center.org/video/center/contemporary-dance/2018/the-human-journey-rulan-tangen-of-dancing-earth/
3. A BLADE OF GRASS FELLOWSHIP doc: http://www.abladeofgrass.org/fieldworks/rulan-tangen/
( Please note that since the filming of these, I am no longer referring to Dancing Earth as global Indigenous contemporary dance, but am describing as eco-somatic dance , to be inclusive beyond specific identities, though I do honor making room for under-represented voices : BIPOC, or english as second language, or undocumented immigrants, or LGTBIA+ , or physical handicaps etc …)