Lectures, Master Classes & Workshops

Founding & Artistic Director, Rulan Tangen has given keynote speeches, lectures and master classes to educational and cultural institutions and events in the US, New Zealand, Canada, Colombia ,Argentina, Mexico, Guahan, Costa Rica, Istanbuhl, Norway’s Saami lands in the sub arctic circle , and Brasil - in urban and Amazonian locations.

What Rulan can bring to your group, community, or organization. All selections have been developed over 21 + years, in local, national and international settings, ranging from festivals, universities, cultural centers, wellness initiatives etc…

1. Master Class/Workshop

• unique eco-somatic methodologies, curated and designed  for your participant base , including possibility of outdoor ‘land dance ‘ 

•  whether professional dancers, elementary school students , people with limited mobility , activists with specific environmental focus, seed savers, water protectors etc ), 

•  Performative Lecture about Dancing Earth :   influences, significant moments, intentions , to contextualize Rulan’s work 

1. Retreats, from -7 days  : eco-somatic and multi disciplinary practices for restoration and replenishment ( leading, or co-leading with host organization partner ) , may  include outdoor ‘land dance’

• Location booked  by host , or as recommended  by Dancing Earth ,  or produced by Dancing Earth

1. Commissions for Choreography , for a group or individual 

• Can be for professional dance group as well as for intergenerational, multi disciplinary community members 

1. Supporting a vision, for a group or individual

• With dramaturgy, direction, choreography, or coaching

1. Commissions for performance ritual ,  by a Dancing Earth soloist, small group , or larger group 

• Performance can be drawn from DE repertory, or creative response to your mission, event theme, or space , such as a duet that responds to artwork in a gallery or museum

• Could be part of a longer residency during which Rulan images with local community to integrate them into the performance ritual  

1. Private coaching  ( multi sessions ) 

• Tailored to your goals , whether as a professional dancer, or getting back into share, or want to expand your physical range or expressive power 

What you can experience , of programs offered by Dancing Earth 

• Live  : Dancing Earth

• master classes/ workshops ( also online ) , usually open to public 

• Retreats for Cultural exchange and creative collaboration , in incredible locations in US and beyond 

• Summer Intensive and Creative Lab, by application

• Creation processes for performance ritual ( by invite only ) 

• And, stay tuned for news of touring of productions ( recently : Unbound, the Listening Project, and Eco Elegies..)

MORE DETAILS BELOW

Performative Lectures

• Dancing the Future into Being, from resourceful resilience to beyond imaginable potentiality.

• Historical influences on the evolution of Dancing Earth’s evolution of performative rituals for transformation.

• “When our teachers are no longer human” - land dance . Multi sensory ad multi dimensional awareness meets memory and imagination, Bio-mimicry , empathy, and diversity in harmony.

• “Mixed-icism : the liminal space, the threshold, the waterways of connection - about “mixed-icism” culture , cultural exchange, migration, trade networks as the incubus of culture

• and special offerings for cancer and chronically ill patients/caretakers, or senior citizens with limited mobility, or young children .

Master Classes

Thematic master class workshops for adults  include many practices that have been described by participants as instrumental to decolonizing, and cultivating alliances.
Over 28 methodologies span practices for community members with limited movement to those with advanced physical training; these include :

• EARTH BODY : Movement for All - eco somatic movements for all beings

• The Re-Story-ing - embodying diverse forms of identity, place and reciprocity to leave a respectful and compassionate imprint on the land that we walk on

• Reciprocity : Embodying Cultural Exchange;

• Movement for Movement Building (individual and collective embodiment practice for social change),

• Land Dance ( deep listening and empathy to reconnect with self in connection with more-than-human human world as eco-system),

• Sound and Motion - for becoming micro-cosm of functional interactive diversity;

• Waters of Wellness Multi sensory Somatic Renewal ;

• Seeds of star ancestors - local and ancestral food and fitness;

• Embodied Story - coaching or choreographing individual or groups to cultivate with their story/narrative/theme into community performance ritual

• Collective Futurities : Dreaming and Doing , bringing future into being-ness

• Eco Artivism , with 5 California based artist-facilitators who have completed a peer training

• Living Landscapes - collaboration with Mother Nature Center’s citizen soil researchers , to bring rapid regeneration through infusion of local fungi, along with land art and land dance

Please note that since the filming of these, we are no longer referring to Dancing Earth as global Indigenous contemporary dance, but we are describing the work eco-somatic dance : to be inclusive beyond specific identities, while honoring a founding premise to make room for under-represented voices : BIPOC, or english as second language, or undocumented immigrants, or LGTBIA+ , or physical handicaps etc …