WORKSHOP: ELEMENTS OF DANCING EARTH A Masterclass in the Foundational Movement of Dancing Earth

Dancing Earth's Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer Rulan Tangen offers a movement experience for all beings — with Earth as body and body as Earth.

From gentle to dynamic, the movement flows to invite the body as earth and the earth as body. Individual expression becomes part of a collective whole as we grow full-bodied empathy for all living beings as kin within Earth's interconnected ecosystem. Through empathy, balance, and embodiment, we experience kinship, advocacy, relation-building, and movement as movement-building.

Practices may include:

  • Breath, sound, presence, activation, and multi-directional counterbalancing

  • Eco-somatic, multi-sensory, multidisciplinary embodiment practices

  • Dancing Earth forms drawn from rocks, wind, water, seeds, plants, four-leggeds, and winged ones

  • Personal interpretation of the inner dreamscape and outer landscape

  • Collective rhythmic pulse that builds into a language beyond words

  • Multi-sensorial observation, imagination, memory, intuition, and full-bodied empathy — rooted in ancestral concepts such as Kapwa: "I am who I am connected to; I am because we are"

For everyone. Movers, artists, healers, and community members of all backgrounds are welcome. No prior experience required. Self-guided modifications available for all abilities. This is Movement for All — Movement as Medicine, Movement as a Source of Knowing, and a vital force of organic migrations.

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About Rulan Tangen

Rulan Tangen is a lifelong dance artist, creatrix, and dreamvisioner. Her contemporary dance practice serves as functional ritual for ecology — evoking transformation and healing. As Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer of Dancing Earth, she has passionately cultivated successive generations of local and global contemporary performing artists as intercultural creative ambassadors and conduits for social change. She is a recipient of the 2018–19 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Award for Service, Justice, Freedom, Courage, and Gratitude.

Dancing Earth creates contemporary dance and related arts through global-Indigenous and intercultural relationships centered in ecological and cultural diversity — for creativity, health, and wellness.