EARTH BODY: Re-Stor(y)-ing the Eco-Somatic with Rulan Tangen

EARTH BODY: an embodied presentation - in languages of words and movement about restoring and re-story-ing body as earth and earth as body.
About this Event

Please join us for WEAD's upcoming Art + Activism No.20 featuring artist Rulan Tangen!

Rulan Tangen, Founding Artistic Director/Choreographer of Dancing Earth, shares her eco-somatic purpose and practices through compelling languages of movement and words. As a cancer survivor and lifelong professional dance artist, she reveals her personal experience of the life giving power of movement to empower and reconnect. Her intercultural work with artists, students, and communities throughout 18 states and 14 countries has been invited to facilitate creative response and contemporary ritual to local issues such as reforestation, sacred waters, solar energy, cultivating plants for medicine and food, and holistic health.

For the WEAD circle, she will elucidate how the body can reflect and generate story, to potentially re-store and re-story the individual, the interpersonal, intercultural, interspecies and cosmic in connection. She will describe the influences and inspiration which have motivated her to develop over 28 methodologies in the last 20 years, (including Land Dance, The Flower Way, Bodies of Water; Spiral of Sensuous Somatic; Elemental Movements, Roots in Rhythm and Earth Body: Movement for All). These forms are shared with humans of all backgrounds through master classes, ritual dance theater performances, retreats, seasonal institutes, personal coaching, teacher trainings, and facilitation of group creative processes - in settings as diverse as canyons, theaters, museums, and forests.

With this offering, she hopes to ignite the relevance of embodiment of Eco Somatic movement as a source, instrument and response for ecological Movement sustainability.

Biography

Rulan Tangen is an internationally accomplished dance artist and choreographer. Her work values body as source of knowing , movement as an expression of collective , collaborative eco-cultural worldviews, with dance as ritual for transformation. She believes in movement as continuance - from ancient to futuristic - culminating in her vision for her contemporary dance company: Dancing Earth -Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations. Her work has been invited to 14 countries and she has been awarded the Kennedy Center Citizen Artist for Service, Justice, Freedom Courage, Gratitude; Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art; Catalyst Initiative from Center for Performance and Social Practice; Arts & Social Change Award from Arts and Healing network; Costo Medal for Education; New Mexico School for the Arts Community Leadership Award; and one of few companies to be awarded both the National Dance Project and National Theater Project Production and Touring awards for different eco-productions.

www.dancingearth.org

https://directory.weadartists.org/artist/rulan

Photo credit: Earth Body: clouds and winds of change (Rulan by Randi Lynn Beach); Earth Body: Biomorphic - woman becomes plant, plant becomes woman (Rulan by Daniel Quat Photography).