“Be Water”
Artistic Director’s notes for summer 2026
“BE WATER..”
I lead with w Bruce Lee , who has inspired and influenced so many creators of colors, to step up and make spaces that didn’t exist, by taking on the unfathomable work of producing, defying industry limitation and stereotype by making empowering cross cultural art for the masses. By the way my friend Jeff Change recently published a biography of this cultural icon, and I was blessed to attend the San Francisco Chinatown One Family celebration where the book was featured… To learn more about Bruce Lee through this writing please check out Water Mirror Echo ( https://jeffchang.net/water-mirror-echo/#book )
Now, about DANCING EARTH Summer 2026 …
… the Movement of WorldMaking: Creation in Confluence ….
Vision + Intention :
Confluence of creative intercultural collaborations - for Movement of WorldMaking … Movement as a source of knowing… Movement ss medicine…. Movement is living : a vital force that brings organic migrations ( a remedio for the current anti immigration energy and xenophobia ) …
As Artistic Director, I also want to surface the inspiration of
an embodied collective response to Venice Biennale’s “ ‘In Minor Keys’ …
an invitation to “tune into the subtler emotional frequencies made possible by the arts”
to provide “a radical reconnection with art’s natural habitat and role in society,”
that of “the sensory, the effective, the subjective”
to platform artistic practices that are “generative and generous, that invite collaboration, alchemize, and radiate back to the ways that we are human together:
within “broader geopolitical context in claiming that the exhibition will provide “intimate and convivial universes that refresh and sustain even in terrible times.”
- quotes from ArtNet article on Venice Biennale
Our Confluence resonates in parallel , generating :
EBB sanctuary with ethos of converging for Rest ( for contemplation , attunement , listening , enchantment of the subtle magic of the everyday )
FLOW Shrines and Processions: collaborative creation of contemporary rituals that make embodied offerings to ground directly below each artist , or alternately the infinite space of migration, calling in ancestral and futuristic to the multi sensory present
WATERMARK imprint : spanning ephemeral to lasting with embrace of creative archives of all that body intuition can awaken
There are times to stand strong and fierce, and to also carry the ability to move like water. As a middle aged woman of color, there is an invisibility that I can feel in US society, that I now wield as a superpower , to be seen and unseen when I choose, to light blazing torches or soothe with calming waters. Maybe combine both for enchanting natural hotsprings visit during recreation time !
That’s what is igniting and flowing my dreamscape and landscape , and I invited you to join me for this collective dreaming, doing and being !
"Be Water, My Friend. Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee
Rulan Tangen joins The Bridge Virtual Dance Institute as a Guest Artist, Dancing Earth News
Rulan Tangen joins The Bridge Virtual Dance Institute as a Guest Artist, Dancing Earth News
The Bridge welcomes new guest artist Rulan Tangen. Rulan offers the session as an opening to ancient ideas of movement, sound and rhythm, as central to rituals for transformation, while embracing cyberspace as a realm of intercultural exchange and collaboration that paves the way to embodiment of imagined realm of liberation.