Professional Experience
DIRECTING
Ms. Tangen has directed, assisted or co-directed the following: Earth
Dance Theater; BONES-Aboriginal Dance Opera; Indigenous Dance Project
for WIPCE; Native Roots and Rhythms; Maka Chante; Wise Fool Circus:
The Curtain; Project HOOP, Institute of American Indian Arts program
coordinator; National Dance Institute residency programs on several
reservations; Banff Aboriginal Dance Program company coordinator; Maka
Chante Native InterTribal youth powwow troupe; Native American Cultural
Center's Indigenous Dance Program CHOREOGRAPHY
Ms. Tangen has choreographed for:
International Choreographers
Workshop, hosted by Earth In Mortion, Toronto; Aboriginal Choreographers
Workshop, Banff; Earth
Dance Theater, Naming Ceremony and Red Rhythms Conference; Native Roots
and Rhythms (3 years); World Indigenous Peoples Conference, Canada;
Grand Opening of the Lensic Theater; Moving People Dance Theater; Kiva
Gallery; Heard Museum; National Dance Institute; Wise Fool/One Railroad
Circus; Native Voices and Visions Elders Conference; Music from a
Painted Cave, PBS special and 80 city tour; IAIA dance workshops.
PERFORMANCE
CREDITS:
Native Dance Productions, including: MINIGOOWEZEWIN (director Georgina
Martinez); TRIBE (director Raoul Trujillo); DAYSTAR (director Rosalie
Jones); DIVI SHADENDE (director Belinda James); QUEST (director Byron
Chief Moon); KAHA:WI and HERE ON EARTH (director Santee Smith)
Modern Dance, including: Michael Mao Dance NYC; Peridance NYC; Karen
Jamieson Dance Co., Canada
Ballet and Opera, including: Redwood Empire Ballet, CA; Berkshire
Ballet, MA; New York Grand Opera; Catskill Ballet Theater, NY
Circus, including: Circus Luminous; Wise Fool Solstice Circus; One
Railroad Circus TV and FILM:
"The New World "(director Terence Malick); "Music from
a Painted Cave"
PBS Special; Much Music Anti-Racism concert, a command performance for
HRH Princes William and Harry; Aboriginal Achievement Awards Ceremony;
Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards.
TEACHING/LECTURING:
Journeys Through Knowledge (a health and wellness conference for
Northeastern Native youth); Sarah Lawrence College; Rutgers University;
United Nations School; Ecole de Beaux Arts, Paris; Universite de
Montpellier, France (with Maka Chante); Culture Shock Camp (tour of
3
reservations); National Dance Institute (residencies for over 450
native youth annually); Michael Mao Dance (master classes); Peridance
NYC (yoga based classes); Redwood Empire Ballet, CA (creative
movement); Simon Fraser University Canada (ballet); Maindance, Canada
(ballet for adult beginners); Grammy Foundation Panel for Native Youth,
Yo-Ha-Hee-Yo workshop on Six Nations Reserve. AWARDS
Aboriginal International Choreographers Symposium, Toronto; Aboriginal
Achievement Foundation Dance Scholarship, Toronto; Aboriginal
Choreographers Workshop, Banff Center for the Arts; Six Nations
Champion of Champions powwow, team dance award; finalist, Hennessey
Cognac Award for Excellence in the Arts; various powwow honors in the
northern plains traditional dance; Role Model Award from Rez Crew. BENEFITS
Compassion, NM (honoree); Native American Aids Project, CA (guest
performer for 2 years); Benefit for IAIA student cancer survivor, NM
(organizer and performer); Wise Fool Circus Feast of Fools, NM
(assistant).
SPECIAL
TRAINING
Anti Oppression Workshops, Wise Fool Circus, NM; Aboriginal
Choreographers Workshop, Banff; International Aboriginal Choreographers
Workshop, Toronto; NDI Teacher Training; Redwood Empire Ballet teacher
training, Laban-based Creative Movement and Harkness Kinaesthetic
Curriculum with David Howard, Maria Vegh, Anne Hebard; Harvard Grad
School of Education, 3 non matriculating courses.