Confluence
Since 2004, Dancing Earth has gathered diverse community creatives and artist-humanists — from aspiring to experienced — across cultures and disciplines, to root into the body and sense of place: ancestral, futuristic, and the ground we stand within at that very moment. The body as land and the land as body is our source of wisdom, healing, and resistance. This June, we return to Ogáa Po'ogéh for an intimate, three-phase CONFLUENCE of movement, land, culture, and creative practice.
We gather at a cherished site of long relationship for Dancing Earth — in the heart of unceded Tewa lands — to respond to the actual land: open sky, high mountain desert, near the living river, in the glowing light of earth that moves towards solstice.
This is a gathering for anyone called to movement as a way of knowing. It is also a remedy — to the severing of migration as a natural and ancient human path, to the forgetting of embodied ways of living. We sense, listen, imagine — birds, butterflies, water, and ancestors.
We open the portal. We enter with:
Eco-somatic practices that restore the body's innate intelligence — breath, sensation, rest, and release as radical acts of restoration.
Movement as a natural and ancient human right. A living counter-force to xenophobia and the criminalization of belonging.
Biomimicry, land dance, cultural forms, and intercultural exchange as ways of expressing what words cannot hold.
Blood memory, embodied cultural knowledge, and somatic intelligence — ancestral ways of knowing alive in the body.
"The biomimicry was profound — I discovered so much more than I initially thought. The free-flowing creativity and potential in every detail is very inspiring."
— Antonella, Dancing Earth participant"I attended for only one week and felt fully supported personally, artistically, culturally, and pedagogically."
— Rosa, Dancing Earth participant"To see you connect it — and to see you pursue that and share it and fuse it with your own background — makes me think about what it means to be mixed and how to create for the future."
— L.R.S., Dancing Earth participant"My inner critic dissolved and I get to be here with all parts of me — feel rooted, steady, grounded — and grant myself more permission to have all of me here. Without apology."
— Dancing Earth participantThe Confluence
The program unfolds in three phases — each cumulative, each building on what came before. Find your entry point below.
Something is calling you back to your body. Gentle movement, land, breath, and belonging on a beautiful campus in the heart of Santa Fe. Come as you are.
→ Learn More & RegisterWhere movement becomes language of embodied story, and creative practice becomes collective ritual. Joy-filled days of deep making, master classes, and cultural exchange — culminating in a ritual performance offering.
→ Learn More & ApplyThe full arc. Fifteen days culminating in multidisciplinary archiving and documentation — each artist directing their own short dance film with peer support. Your movement, held with love, to reverberate outwards infinitely.
→ Join the WaitlistYou Can Still Be Part of This
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