Event Details: Dancing Earth

Dancing Earth's performance, Walking at the Edge of Water, is an intertribal contemporary dance expression of Indigenous water perspectives. Every creative aspect of this eco-production reflects an indigenous cultural and environmental worldview, with collaborators in movement, musical composition, language, video imagery, costume and visual art.

This work is motivated by the urgings of Native grandmothers and invokes powerfully relevant water themes of creation, destruction and renewal . Walking at the Edge of Water, parallels ancestral healing rituals in a dance of inter-disciplinary Native expressions that is both primal and futuristic.

Dancing Earth’s vision for transformation through performance embraces extensive community engagement activities, to facilitate experiential creative knowledge for each participant, and infuse local perspectives into each performance location.

About DANCING EARTH
Dancing Earth spins, stomps and spirals into life on the world’s dancing grounds as a collective of intertribal Indigenous dance artists, under the leadership of internationally respected choreographer Rulan Tangen. Rooted in the spirit and energy of the first peoples and the land, the mythic power of Dancing Earth's creations respect, embrace and expand the context of Indigenous culture into vital contemporary relevance. 

We are passionately committed to Indigenous contemporary dance as primal yet articulate movement - blood memory in motion - that speaks to all beings. We believe in dance as an expression that can illuminate issues of cultural, historical, philosophical, mythic, and spiritual relevance.