……… CONFLUENCE : THE PERFORMANCE RITUAL …….

DATE June 10, 2026

TIME 6:30pm - until 8:30 pm ( estimate )

LOCATION : Santa Fe Art Institute -

1600 St. Michael's Drive #31, Santa Fe, NM 87505

The Performance Ritual

Born from a three-day intensive creation residency, this intimate evening brings together a gathering of visionary artists — each carrying their own solo work into a shared, living whole. From themes of immigration and diaspora to climate change and the voices of ancestors, these embodied stories emerge from a collective pulse, woven together through deep listening, somatic practice, cultural memory, and collaborative exchange.

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Arrive ready to participate. The evening opens with a multidisciplinary invocation — and from there, we move together: from outdoor to indoor, through site and sensation, in immersive relationship to all that is around, between, and within us. This will be mobile, activating different spaces , so feel free to bring a yoga mat/pillow or light folding chair. We will set up chairs for elders or those with accessibility needs ( please let Jade.DancingEarth@gmail.com know ), and during the ritual we request our community to assist elders with moving the chairs as needed. Thank you!

This is shared as a contemporary collaborative creative cross-cultural ritual: an offering for each other, for the more-than-human world, and for the living landscape that has held and shaped the work.

✦ ✦ ✦ C O N F L U E N C E ✦ ✦ ✦

Creativity · Compassion · Courage · Curiosity · Connectedness · Converging · Clarity · Calm

This June, we return to Ogáa Po'ogéh for an intimate CONFLUENCE — a three-phase gathering of movement, land, culture, and creative practice in the heart of unceded Tewa lands. We gather at a site of long and cherished relationship for Dancing Earth: beneath open sky, in high mountain desert, near a living river, in the glowing light of earth moving toward solstice.

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 beneath our feet in this very moment. The body as land and the land as body is our source of wisdom, healing, and resistance.

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, and imagine with birds, butterflies, water, and ancestors.

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Artists

Xeric Tlaloc Meraz is an Indigenous multidisciplinary movement artist, storyteller, and youth educator whose work bridges contemporary dance, hip-hop, and cultural storytelling. Through movement, poetry, and performance, he explores identity, resilience, and ancestral knowledge. His solo work Medicine Wheel of Time uses the medicine wheel as a compass — traveling across past, present, and future through dance and memory. Xeric is contributing to this project as a Dancer and filmmaker.

Gabriela SharpFish, a Sicangu artist, brings a practice rooted in the understanding that movement is medicine. Her work spans Dance Theatre, Contemporary, and Indigenous Traditional forms, advocating for social, environmental, and political rights while exploring cultural traditions and the stories carried within the body. Her creative process is grounded in deep conversation, improvisation, and a fiercely collaborative spirit.

Vannia Ibarguen is an international performer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of VIDA — Vannia Ibarguen Dance Arts. A former ballet soloist with over a decade of professional performance experience, she trained across Peru, Argentina, Cuba, and the United States before earning her MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland. Her choreography has earned awards across four countries, and she is also Artistic Director of Global Water Dances — a biennial event in which more than 100 cities worldwide create outdoor performances to raise awareness around local and global water issues.

Humlåo Evans is an Atlanta-based artist of Micronesian CHamoru heritage working across movement studies, poetry, installation, video, and performance. Their interdisciplinary practice explores embodied memory, cultural lineage, and the political histories the body carries. Informed by somatic bodywork and CHamoru healing philosophies, and shaped by physically integrated dance company Full Radius Dance, Evans' work centers disability artistry, justice, and collective care.

Laura Yohualtlahuiz is a 2Spirit Detribalized Mexican-born Xicanx Matriarch of Tepehuan and Guachichil Chichimeca lineage, recognized for their canon of Cultura Cura pedagogy at the intersection of healing justice, Mexican Indigenous Traditional Medicine, performance art, ritual, and ancestral ways of knowing. Their practice is a living act of reclamation — weaving Indigenous past, present, and future as a direct action for collective liberation and the healing of the soul wound.

Cynthia Paniagua is a dancer, choreographer, and educator whose work reflects her Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Andean, and Nuyorican heritage. Grounded in over 15 years of research into Peruvian ritual dances as forms of ancestral memory, resistance, and joy, her work moves between contemporary movement and traditional dance. A Fulbright scholar and the first choreographer commissioned by the United Nations Symphony Orchestra for an Andean-based work, Cynthia brings deep cultural lineage and expansive creative range to this gathering.

Jennifer Turner is a lifelong dancer and social justice advocate based in Colorado, where she serves as Executive Director of Bridges of Colorado. Her roots run deep with the rituals of dance as activism, resistance, and healing — and her presence here is a testament to her belief that our collective future depends on our ability to move together.

Collaborators

Collaborating sound artist: Kino Benally (DJ Béeso), Diné composer and DJ from Tsé Bit Aí, Navajo Nation — weaving electronic composition with Diné musical structure and philosophy.

This work is documented by filmmaker Terrance Clifford, founder of Lightning Within LLC, whose storytelling practice spans cinematography, music, and film.

Directed by Rulan Tangen, Dancing Earth's Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer — a creatrix, dancer, and dreamvisioner whose lifelong practice cultivates innovative movement language as an evolving intercultural expression, rooted in the body as source of knowing and theater as ritual for transformation

Produced by Jade Whaanga, an Indigenous Dance Artist from Aotearoa (New Zealand) of Ngāti Rongomaiwāhine and Ngāti Raakaipaaka descent.