9-10:30 am PT . 10-11:30am MT . 11-12:30 pm CT . 12-1:30pm ET

RESTORING THE SOURCE: MIXED-ICISM IN MOTION : This workshop series is offered as part of Restoring the Source series of seasonal ecological dance practice of Movement as Medicine shared by Dancing Earth’s Founding Artistic Director/Choreographer, Rulan Tangen, and offered from the spirit of love and inclusivity. For the Spring series of Mixed-icim in Motion, Dancing Earth offers movement workshops timed near the new moon and full moon.

Come move with us in the new year, and join our series of five workshops, in which the Artistic Director explores her emergent movement of MIXED-ICISM as the process for an itinerant body of work. The multi-disciplinary, multi-sensory, multi-dimensional, mysterious, and magical will center on the wisdom of the body and will also include writing and drawing. During this series, we will experience

• Embodiment of patterns of diverse life forms as relationships beyond human being-ness, with observation ( bio-mimicry), memory, and empathy
• Love as experienced through connection via migration and exchange between human beings
• Joy as experienced through compassion for self as fluid, complex, and ever-evolving
• Liminal space of dreaming and the unknown sources of imagination and intuition
• Multi-sensory synthesis , bit and pieces to become whole in a living ecosystem of immersive diversity

We extend this special invitation to those who have joined or expressed interest in movement sessions in the past year, to join this month’s movement, with Creatrix and Dreamvisioner Rulan Tangen. We invite your courage, creativity, compassion and care - and welcome you to bring a friend!

Photos: Daniel Quat and Randi Lynn Beach

We will be limiting space so please consider your reservation a commitment. We are encouraging donations to support Dancing Earth’s international cultural exchange programs, ( recent and upcoming engagement with artists, community groups and culture carriers in Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Australia and New Zealand ), to create compassionate and sustainable relationships for creativity beyond borders. Even if you can’t attend please consider making a donation to support this or any of Dancing Earth’s generous, prolific and ongoing inter-cultural, inter-generational, inter-disciplinary and inclusive creations !

Pay what you can $1- $100. Nobody is turned away for lack of funds, and if you are able to be generous with your resources, please consider doubling your donation to sponsor participation of someone who can not donate !

CLASS BREAKDOWN

• 15 min Welcomes, intention, orientation, and invitation to share.
• 60 min 'Movement as Medicine' for all humans, regardless of dance background.
• Final 15min Will be a group reflection circle about what is joyful, challenging, and what transformed during our time together.

ACCESSIBILITY

• Movements can be modified to even lying down on a bed and listening, imagining is a powerful ‘movement’!

BRING

• Open mindedness, no dance experience necessary
• Layers of clothing for warmth and comfort and able to move
• Barefoot or socks
• Blanket or yoga mat
• Water bottle
• Notebook and pencil/pen
• Rocks or crystals or special stones if you have some available.
  

dynamically activates our mission, to create contemporary dance and related arts through global indigenous and intercultural relationships centered in ecological and cultural diversity for creativity, health, and wellness.

“We gather as individual artists to create experimental yet elemental dances that reflect our rich cultural heritage as contemporary global peoples. We strive to embody the unique essences of cultural perspectives by creation and renewal of artistic and cultural movement rituals. Ancient and futuristic, our dances are an elemental language of bone and blood memory in motion.”