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Rulan Tangen has 20 years of experience as a dedicated dance artist, performing
professionally with ballet, modem and powwow dance companies in New York,
Canada, California and Europe. She began serious ballet training in Russian
style technique with Mme Elena Piernik in San Francisco, which led to
a scholarship at the prestigious Marin Ballet School. With its associated
company, she began performing the classical repertory as well as new roles
with choreographers including Norbert Vesak and Val Caniparoli. After
graduating early from high school at age 14, she chose to move to New
York City where she studied on scholarship with David Howard and performed
with several ballet companies in the Northeast. After touring Europe and
becoming exposed to Tanztheater aesthetics, she focused on working with
emerging choreographers to develop new work. By adding graham and other
modem dance movement forms to her vocabulary, she became a contemporary
dancer, performing with several opera companies, Peridance Ensemble and
Michael Mao Dance in New York and European tours, as well as being honored
as a finalist in the Hennessy Cognac Performing Arts Awards in 1989. As
a principal dancer and rehearsal director for Michael Mao dance she was
involved in projects including developing movement for non-sighted adults,
and for inner city high school students who spoke English as a second
language.
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