Sunday, September 6 | 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm ~ Jvala Moonfire
$5 – $50 Sliding Scale All participants must register to reserve a spot at [email protected] , and feel free to reach out with any questions about the class or the residency

Special class with  Rulan Tangen, special guest artist With EARTH BODY IN MOTION, Rulan offers a rhythmic flow of movement that reflects the vitality of the summer shifting towards autumn, with earth centered imagery that integrates a spiralling force to connect between elements. Come move and shake  together,  with joy and compassion  – in an encouraging atmosphere where each individual can adapt the movement to their body.

Rulan’s international experience in movements arts includes  an award of a national fellowship for Service, Justice, Freedom, Courage and Gratitude , and she is honored to return to Taos for this session at the Loft, as part of a creation residency at Wildflower Playhouse Sept 6-13, to give daily classes, collaborative creation sessions , painting exhibition by Erin Currier, and performance ritual with international and local dancers. ( www.dancingearth.org )

BIO

Rulan Tangen is a creatrix : dancer and dreamvisioner . After an international dance career in ballet and modern dance, opera, circus, film and TV, she  survived cancer to discover her passionate purpose, as Founding Artistic Director of Dancing Earth ( www.dancingearth.org)  – initially motivated to create opportunities where there were almost none, for successive generations of global Indigenous and Native American performing artists as intercultural ambassadors and conduits for social change. Since 2021 Dancing Earth has re-articulated into inter-cultural creativity, with BIPOC and mixed heritage humans dancing by, with, and for the earth. Collaboratively with community creatives, she cultivates innovative movement language as an evolving intercultural expression, rooted in body as source of knowing, making theater as ritual for transformation. Recently awarded the Kennedy Center Citizen Artist fellowship for Service, Justice, Freedom, Courage, and Gratitude, her own ancestral lineage includes Kampampangan/Pangasinan of Luzon Island in the Pacific archipelago of Philippines, and to Norway, France, ireland. Other honors include YBCA Creative Corps,  A 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 Research and Community Service, NACF’s first Dance Fellowship for Artistic Innovation, New Mexico School for the Arts Community Leadership Award, Production/Touring awards from National Dance Project and National Theater Project, and a medallion from the US Ambassador to New Zealand . Rulan’s work values movement as an expression of collective and collaborative eco-somatic worldviews, with  dance as a functional ritual for transformation and healing.

 More here –  TEDx talk : To dance is to live. To live is to dance | Rulan Tangen | TEDxABQ

( Please note that since 2021 I am no longer referring to the work as global  Indigenous contemporary dance, but have moved into articulation as eco-somatic and inter-cultural multi-disciplinary movement work, to be inclusive of all humans dancing by/with/for earth, and all interrelated life forms as part of this dance )

photo credit: Audrey Derrell