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Reflecting into 2021, Dancing Earth News

Reflecting into 2021

In 2020, Dancing Earth was able to overcome immense challenges to launch unanticipated and innovative online offerings with creative resilience and joyous positivity. This is something we had only dreamed about in the past, but due to the constraints we had from the pandemic, we got down with our imaginations and drew this dream into reality.

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Last of Fall Harvest 2020, Dancing Earth News

Last of Fall Harvest 2020, Dancing Earth News

Fall 2020 Events including: PPAK: Journeys in Native Food Sovereignty & BTW US Cyberspace, "Life Giving, Living +LIVE Closing Party!" November 20th. Tickets includes access to the live/synchronous stream on Nov 20th as well as five episodes released earlier this month. All content will be available for ticket buyers through Nov 30th.

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BTW US Cyberspace: Dancing Earth Creates a World Together, Dancing Earth News

BTW US Cyberspace: Dancing Earth Creates a World Together, Dancing Earth News

Article by Tamara Johnson for Southwest Contemporary. "In a year of social distancing and division, global Indigenous dance company Dancing Earth uses digital space for creative gathering and (re)generation. The art they make convening “here” feels like contemporary ritual. Dancing Earth’s current work, BTW US Cyberspace, constructs and inhabits a liminal realm between tradition and technology."

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Artistic Director's Personal Statement of Identity, Rulan Tangen

PERSONAL STATEMENT OF IDENTITY

SUMMARY
Dancing Earth Founder and Artistic Director Rulan Tangen’s mixed ancestral heritage is Kampampangan and Pangasinan from Luzon Island, known colonially as part of Pacific archipelago of the Philippines, and Norweigian/Irish lineage, while she lives in the partition of Turtle Island which is often referred to as the U.S. For over four decades, Tangen has been invited into, and extended invitations for, collaborative work with global Indigenous artists and intergenerational community members locally and globally. Dancing Earth has been committed to working with Native American, global, and mixed Indigenous artists to support, nurture, and highlight diverse Indigenous embodied values and ways of being through creative artistic practice.

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A Quick Note from Rulan Tangen, Dancing Earth News

A Quick Note from Rulan Tangen, Dancing Earth News

This is Rulan sending you a quick note because I am in the creation process, so super busy and super excited to invite you to our fall harvest of offerings! This is what we have been working towards since all our live performances were cancelled : a mini series of dynamic episodes evoking post-apocalyptic embodiment of the future, made by our artist/filmmakers with a virtual reality designer!

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Revitalizing Autumnal Equilibrium, Dancing Earth News

Revitalizing Autumnal Equilibrium, Dancing Earth News

At this time of equinox, we reflect on the need for balance amongst all forms of life on earth. We reach out with our dances to heal, to hope, to ground, to question, to reach, to dream...as we pray for good health, clear air, and an end to the devastating fires raging across the west coast of the U.S.

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Rulan Tangen joins The Bridge Virtual Dance Institute as a Guest Artist, Dancing Earth News

Rulan Tangen joins The Bridge Virtual Dance Institute as a Guest Artist, Dancing Earth News

The Bridge welcomes new guest artist Rulan Tangen. Rulan offers the session as an opening to ancient ideas of movement, sound and rhythm, as central to rituals for transformation, while embracing cyberspace as a realm of intercultural exchange and collaboration that paves the way to embodiment of imagined realm of liberation.

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We are so grateful, Thank You! Dancing Earth News

We are so grateful, Thank You! Dancing Earth News

As Founding Artistic Director of DANCING EARTH, I felt the great shift this year has brought: much loss, sorrow, pain and with it an opportunity for truth and for re-imagining. With support from our circle, we have been able to meet this challenge with creativity and collaboration, to meet the moment, and welcome, in online practices, an uplifting of our incredible artists and our communities.

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"Joy" video by Madeline Rackerby, Dancing Earth News

"Joy" video by Madeline Rackerby, Dancing Earth News

"JOY" emerges as a ‘ Citizen Commission ‘ - coming from the mind and heart of the wondrously creative Alexandra Riggs Stivala who befriended Rulan when they were teenage ballet students at Marin Ballet, California.

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