In-person! EARTH BODY: An Eco Somatic Workshop with Rulan Tangen

Rulan Tangen, founding artistic director/choreographer of Dancing Earth, shares her eco-somatic practices through movement and words that compel people of all ages, backgrounds and capacities to find connection to their inner dreamscape and outer landscape in profound ways. We will come together to embody the relevance of Eco Somatic movement as source, instrument and response for ecological Movement sustainability.

The event will be at Shawl Anderson Dance Center. It will be a family-friendly event for levels of experience. We invite your courage, creativity, compassion and care - and welcome you to BRING A FRIEND ! Let's experience wellness, creativity, and movement in circle, building strong and vibrant communities.

BRING

• Open mindedness, imagination , intuition and your full being
• Layers of clothing for warmth and comfort and able to move
• Barefoot or socks
• Blanket or yoga mat
• Water bottle
• Notebook and pencil/pen

We will be limiting space, so please consider your reservation a commitment. Contact aW5mbyB8IHdlYWRhcnRpc3RzICEgb3Jn with any questions.

TICKETING

• Tickets are $5-10 sliding scale for WEAD members and one guest.
• Tickets are $20-75 sliding scale for non-members.
• Annual WEAD membership is available: https://directory.weadartists.org/membership-matters/

Rulan was introduced to WEAD last year and provided an embodied Art+ lecture last winter. She has this special message for WEAD members:

I respect the WEAD circle so much. It's inspiring to read artist bios on the WEAD website, and to imagine what it would be like to be in a circle with all or any of them! It means a lot to me to have a live opportunity to meet any of these amazing visionary women that are part of the Women's Eco-Artist Dialogue, to facilitate an eco-somatic experience of practice altogether, to bring together inner dreamscape and outer landscape through simple movements , to embody diversity and solidarity as well as empathetic relationship for all forms of life, at this time when so much is in crisis.

Rooted in a spirit of love and inclusivity, this multidisciplinary, multi-sensory, and multi-dimensional offering delves deep into the wisdom of the body. It's a journey that invites participants to reconnect with themselves, forge deeper connections with others, and rediscover their place within the intricate tapestry of the earth and cosmos - as the ecological body .

These classes and your participation serve as part of the Artistic Director's emergent exploration of her innovative MIXED-ICISM movement, dedicated to themes of eco-elegies, eco-feminism, and eco-liberation, in an evolving body of work that is constantly iterating to be site-responsive and fluid to the unique expression of each place/time it is nested within.

Reflections from WEAD members who experienced Rulan's embodied lecture:

"It’s really rejuvenating, and I appreciate how you discussed the body as a microcosm with various interconnected parts. I’ve always seen the female body as a contested terrain where one explores and reclaims one’s subjectivity."

"I really enjoyed thinking about the way the ecosystem can be represented in movement."

What community members around the globe have to say:

“ Keep doing your work, in whatever way you can, so that the people can feel that connection. The earth needs it. “

• MM Native elder/mentor , in Canada

“ We have to keep fighting against the colonial patriarchy, to stay embodied. You let my body move and flow and be with the earth. I was struck by the power of imagery , that took me deeper and deeper and I am IN IT now .“

• H.F. in Mexico

“Thats what I wanted to experience: the body in motion to reflect the words you were saying.”

• NS , co-leader at Cultivating Womens Leadership retreat

“ I also felt like a rusty hinge before arriving here. As an academic in western science I am interested in translation of that science into other language to reveal that information, I appreciate your weaving of science with the intuitive and felt perception. “

• Cristina

Rulan “has planted seeds within me that I have transplanted into my local community, in particularly with migrant farm workers and people with developmental disabilities and seniors.... bringing forth meaning and connection with our ourselves and our relationships with the elements and cardinal directions, stories of the land and its original peoples, animals, plants, stars, constellations, soil, etc”

• HM

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.

As a cancer survivor and lifelong professional dance artist, Rulan finds purpose in the lifegiving power of movement to empower and reconnect. Through her intercultural work with artists, students, and communities throughout 18 states and 14 countries, she 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. She is delighted to return full circle to Berkeley where her mother attended university and was ignited by the civil rights era.

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).

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