“ Weaving of Worlds …we dream in a multiverse…”
a performance ritual offering of murmuration, created and embodied by Dancing Earth’s constellation of associate artists:
Rulan Tangen, Jade Whaanga, Xeric Tlaloc Meraz, Humlåo Evans, Shakaya McFarland, Alekzeta Cantu-Hensley, Tara Bucknor, Raven Bright , Amy Lee, Clarence Brooks
with additional special thanks to
Kino Benally / DJ Béeso; Gabriela Wachi Sharpfish and Cynthia Paniagua
We offer this work with great respect to the Lenape, original stewards of this Manahatta land —
past, present, and future — including our honored mentor Joe Baker of the Lenape Center
Created in response to invitation from Battery Dance Festival, for MOVING TOGETHER program on July 25, 2026 in Lenapehoking, Manhattan , intended as a bold and vulnerable response to this moment in history, with a collective that represents intergenerational, intercultural, compassionate, plurilingual, transnational, queer, multidisciplinary, multi dimensional , creative, compassionate and courageous artist humanists .
COLLABORATING ARTISTS : https://www.dancingearth.org/artistbiosweavingworlds
DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM
Some of us are ancestral to this land, some forced here , some chose pathway here — together we dance a memory longer than 250 years, for a future. Generational migrations are navigated by stars, ancient umbilical cords tracing back to the far corners of the world — roots of a tree of life connecting living lands, waters, and skies. From this layered realm, every being and every relationship between us is world-making. From that collective pulse, diverse individual stories emerge: who we are, how we came to be, why we are here now, what we are dancing for — as an offering to humans and more-than-humans, to ancestors seen and unseen. Can we root into migration, with movement as the only constant; can we find belonging and unity while sharing our unique voice; can we contiunually improvise in response to ever shifting conditions ? We give our dance as a gift to this place at this moment, a convergent ritual to embody collaborative ways of being — to gather broken fragments, heal with the breath of compassion, and find the collective pulse to weave worlds
DIRECTOR : Rulan Tangen in collaboration with all artists ( including excerpts of their own solo work created/presented in June at Dancing Earth’s Confluence in artistic residence at Santa Fe Art Institute ) , with additional acknowledgement of Gabriela Wachi Sharpfish for her concept in the process of ‘ what is my relationship with america ‘ and call out for community voices for recording , and of Cynthia Paniagua of Kaypacha Dance as coach for some sequences
MUSIC : Score mixed by DJ Béeso (@djbeeso) Kino Benally , with voices from the community of Santa Fe’s Andrea Mantell and Gabriel Carrion Gonzales ( featured in the excerpt for this ritual ) and the University of South Florida as gathered by Gabriela Sharpfish , as well as samples from amazing musical artists including Ehren Kee Natay ; Louis Vega’s Elements of Life with Ursula Rucker’s spoken word and vocal intro layer of Tanya Taqac ; Olatunji ( Pura Fe’s album Ancestral Waterways ; Sugar Vendil’s album May We Know Our Own Strength ; QVLN Quetzal Guerrero and the blue violin ; Randy L Barton and The Blessingway album ; La Sonora Matancera & Celia Cruz ; Barrett Martin's Atmospheric Tremblings ; live chant by Humlåo Evans ; “We The People… “ edited speech of the revered late Angel L.G. Santos ; Oya (Lunar Disco); sounds sampled from dancers of Dancing Earth’s Confluence and living beings of the natural world as composed by Kino
