12th Annual Dancing Earth Summer Institute
co-presented by the CSU East Bay Department of Theatre and Dance
June 1 -June 12, 2023
ALL SPACES NOW FILLED, for ALL SESSIONS! Please contact Info@DancingEarth.org for application for future Institutes, trainings, workshops, and retreats!
A Message from Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer Rulan Tangen:
Greetings, Invitees!
Dancing Earth’s cohort of Peer-mentored, Artist-Leaders are thrilled to offer our 12th annual Dancing Earth Summer Institute, co-presented by the CSU East Bay Department of Theatre and Dance. This powerful incubator for emerging leadership, emphasizes inter-cultural embodied practices for creative world-makers. Participants from around the globe are selected for their outstanding potential for centering arts into powerful ways of understanding, learning, being and transforming this world. This marks our first year to bring the Summer Institute to Ohlone's home territory, lands that have been sung and danced into renewal since the beginning of time and into the infinite future.
Together we will experience the multi-dimensional benefits of daily movement practice, movement for making community, movement for building (for specific social change initiatives), explore restorative/sustainability practices, and engage in community sessions to activate reciprocity.
Through your participation, each and every one of you takes part in the future of Dancing Earth in some form. For example, all of Dancing Earth's company artists have participated in at least one intensive before being cast in the professional and touring cast, while others joined as collaborators, apprentices, volunteers, visual artists, and enthusiasts. Our circle is open.
I am inspired to move forward with you, thank you for your time and care in response!
- Rulan Tangen
I. ReSToring the Source
June 1st -June 4th in CSU State East Bay:
For people who love movement, culture, and nature. Does not require being full-time, rigorous, movement practitioners.
Participants will experience:
Replenishment, renewal, and restoration through movement.
Sustainability skills: “Practicing Principles of Ancestral Knowledge” with local cultural and sustainability knowledge carriers.
“An awakening of creativity.” - Leah
“Remembering my power in the arts, how arts can be medicine to my soul.” - Gabriel
II. DANCING EARTH INTENSIVE
June 6th-June 12th in CSU East Bay:
Both I. & II. June 1st-June 12th in CSU East Bay
Emerging artist-leaders expand from their experiences cultivated in ReStoring the Source as well coming from Movement as Medicine shared practices, into a rigorous training ground of creativity that centers relationship and reciprocity. Creative processes are grounded in land dance and elemental dance, uplifted with skill sharing, nurtured with intercultural exchange, stretched with multi-disciplinary forms, and guided by collaborations with the human and beyond human realms. Intensive culminates in a contemporary performance ritual.
“Using the guided mediation activity through movement helped me break out of my colonized view of dance by allowing movement to be informed by nature.” - Jasmine
HOST SITE: Cal State East Bay University
Dancing Earth is excited to be hosting the Summer Intensive at CSU East Bay University in California, through the generous welcome of Theater and Dance Department and Chair Eric Kupers ! The mountains and deserts of New Mexico of our last decade of Institutes will be missed, but we trust that California, the birthplace of Dancing Earth, will hold us tenderly as we engage with land, water , people and architecture of the area .
Our time together will build the experience of community building through communal living. We’ll be sharing the lodging, dining, and dance spaces with one another. We welcome you to visit Cal State East Bay's website for its complete list of accommodations, housing, and land history.