So even though we werent actively producing our own, there were Rulan's ancestral bloodlines include Kapampangan (aka Pampango and Pangasinan ethnolinguistic groups living in archipelago now known as the Philippines) on her maternal side, as well as Norsk (Norwegian . Rulan Tangen's dance journey centers around the founding of DANCING EARTH CREATIONS (DE) in 2004. More recently, through an acting role, Lakota language involvement in a film as coached and approved by the films Lakota cultural advisors Ben Black Bear and Yvonne Russo. Dancing Earth is respectfully based in the Ogha Pooge occupied and unceded Tewa territory known as Santa Fe, NM and Yelamu occupied Ohlone territory known as San Francisco, CA. Select from premium Rulan Tangen of the highest quality. Later, in Canada, Rulan met others who carried relationship to the Burdeau name, such as Olivia Tailfeathers, who also cited oral networks connecting the Burdeau family to extended families of Blackfoot, Blood, and Kainai, and who encouraged Rulan to own her name and be proud of this lineage. Im curious to hear specifically from you how you experienced the year 2020. FULL STATEMENT. for survival and resilience for generations have a lot to draw on right now. In this interview with Pier Carlo Talenti, Rulan describes how she and her company In 2010, she was invited by Stanford University's Institute of Diversity in the Arts to lead a semester project titled "Race And Environment. He is currently a resident of Hillsborough, NC, where he is pursuing his own creative . people going but even more so to keep their creative lives going, to keep them fulfilling Its not pretty. I dont know, its a wonderful exercise, right? When a branch falls from a tree, the water has dried out and it takes this like These eight different directions or mini-seasons that came to me: The first one would , -- was the same name mentioned as a family name in the few letters that Rulan's patrilineal grandmother had sent her. ", TEDxABQ, Rulan Tangen & DANCING EARTH. How that plays out now, even though there is some It's expecting a mostly non-Native audience to be paralyzed by the mysterious rules of Native American spirituality and kinship customs. Rulan: Yes. Choose a question below to begin exploring the interview: Pier Carlo Talenti: Im curious to hear specifically from you how you experienced the year 2020. theyd been before, finding evermore inventive ways to engage with their audiences down ants come together, and they work to harvest that. National Dance Project (for Of Bodies of Elements and SEEDS: Regeneration). Dancing Earth is a grassroots and project-based organization, who collaborates with a convergence of artists, farmers, cultural advocates, and activists across the Nation and Internationally. I think theres a metaphor in there about continuance. Lupita Salazar, Northern New Mexico Chicana dancer and permaculture farmer and Agricultural Programs Director with the Northern Youth Project, as well as past Theater Instructor with Moving Arts Espaola. This making of relatives ceremony culminating in Rulans name-giving, application of symbolic paint, ritual preparation and eating of wasna, and acknowledgement through dance entry into the wacipi (powwow dance circle), as well as becoming a reciprocal member of Geraldines Lakota family, as witnessed by the community. classes online. Expressive Arts Award of the National Museum of the American Indian, which allowed the company to share performance and engagement with local Native communities in rural Montana, Arizona, and South Dakota. People would be like, Gosh, your version of being quiet is other peoples version I think that kind of gets me to my seventh teacher. Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (for Walking on the Edge of Water). "As a Din artist, my family, my community and my people were heavily impacted by the pandemic. 2. or are in wheelchairs. Rulans ancestral bloodlines include Kapampangan (aka Pampango and Pangasinan ethnolinguistic groups living in archipelago now known as the Philippines) on her maternal side, as well as Norsk (Norwegian), Irish, and French via Canada on her paternal side. their purpose on this planet and to serve our communities. We have a full Biography, Photos, Theatre Credits, and more! Rulan has been awarded the 2016 A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art , 2016-17 Santa Fe Art Institute's Water themed artists residency, 2016 Catalyst Initiative from Center for Performance and Social Practice , 2015 Arts & Social Change Award from Arts and Healing network, Costo Medal for Education, Research and Service by UC Riverside's Chair of Native Affairs, the first Dance Fellowship for Artistic Innovation by the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation , New Mexico School for the Arts Community Leadership Award and was honored as a top ten finalist across all disciplines for Nathan Cummings Fellowship for Social Change .Rulan's work values movement as an expression of indigenous worldview, including the honoring of matriarchal leadership, dance as functional ritual for transformation and healing, the process of decolonizing the body, and the animistic energetic connection with all forms of life on earth. Dancing Earth is respectfully based in Ogaa Po Ogeh occupied Tewa territory known as Santa Fe, NM and Yelamu occupied Ohlone territory known as San Francisco, CA. 119 Rulan Tangen Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images CREATIVE Collections Project #ShowUs Creative Insights Custom Content EDITORIAL VIDEO BBC Motion Gallery NBC News Archives MUSIC BLOG BROWSE PRICING BOARDS CART SIGN IN Images Images Creative Editorial Video Creative Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO It becomes this weird goop, and then it becomes a butterfly, Rulan continues to fulfill Hunka ( meaning adopted) Grandma Geraldines cultural directives including to: Use her gifts to inspire subsequent generations with culture and creativity; Remember cultural histories, stories, lifeways and teachings as passed down by elders; Maintain principles embedded within a symbolic object she was gifted; and, Uphold Lakota Because you live both in the Bay Area and in New Mexico, right? that was recalibrating what we want to be in the world or looking at our systems, Other family members and associates include Ha David, Anne Lei, Carolyn Fong, Mea Fong and Yannie Wong. like I said, that dandelion, to make I keep using the word opportunity; Im kind Its all dried. But theres an incredible opportunities to create, like I said, that dandelion to make creative pathways, than artists to not only comfort the community but also to provide spaces of imagination, right? The footprints that wed left from all the work that On parts of them she did a light But for me its about first just being fully human in our bodies. After years of teaching dance workshops to reservation youth, she strove to create hope and opportunity for aspiring performers, theater artists and technicians, who also serve as culture carriers, art educators, and leaders. 6. She is the director and choreographer of the internationally acclaimed Dancing Earth Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (www.dancingearth.org). This is reflective in how staff, tech, and artists are paid at equal rates. She is the Founding Artistic Director of Dancing Earth, which has been noted in Dance Magazine as "One of the Top 25 To Watch", and selected for the National Dance Project Production and Touring Award, as well as the National Theater Project Production and Touring award. not sure what I have to say, like continued transformations and collaborations that It is used intentionally, as the term Native American or American Indian signifies original peoples of the United States and can involve specific treaty rights and Sovereign Nation status. Im near but good comes dance. Movies. 2018: Woman Walks Ahead as Susan McLaughlin: Clear; All Ive been told so many times that we would have a more stable company if there was Principle participants were Native community members from the rural Four Corners region. Thered be people coming in part-time, a single person Rulan Tangen choreographed the piece, performed by Anne Pesata, which is inspired by Pesata's lived experiences as a Jicarilla Apache woman and fifth generation basket weaver. either propelled by the artist or demonstrated by artists? part-time staffing, is that Ive really put my feet on the ground and said, We all These include: the Lakota name I was given, my sanctioned participation in powwows as a Northern Plains traditional dancer, the regalia gifted to me during Hunka ceremony, the language and songs I carry- all of which are part of my explicit responsibilities within those relations; as well as the designations of Mtis and Blackfeet/Kainai I used in ways I believed at the time to be appropriate. She also participated in the Northern Plains Womens Traditional, on the powwow circuit, with the Maka Chante group, and later assisting with the Aboriginal Dance Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. To live is to dance ; to dance is to live .. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, First Nation and indigenous people's Actors/Actresses. Dancing Earth has thus inspired subsequent generations of cultural artists to expressecological themesin vital contemporary and experimental forms. Rulan Tangen is an internationally accomplished dance artist, choreographer, and director with over three decades of experience in multiple movement genres. I didnt think it was fair. 7. People are like, Oh, figure things out. She is the Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer of DANCING EARTH, noted in Dance Magazine as One of the Top 25 To Watch, and winner of the National Dance Project Production and Touring Grant, as well as the National Museum of American Indians Expressive Arts award. Rulan Tangen is the Founding Artistic Director of DANCING EARTH. yucca pods, these dried horsetail. When you There were different I think Rulan Tangen's company, Dancing Earth, performed the culmination of a six-year project called SEEDS: RE GENERATION in Santa Fe this April. like rocks.. that was thundering down this arroyo, probably with much more life force than I have Over 20 years ago Rulan met George Burdeau (Blackfeet); George's last name -- Burdeau This has often led to community members reciprocating with attestations of cultural connections and relations. life quickly, and theyre very resilient. I get irritated by the wind, and then of course farmers tell So who better This appropriation has enacted violence against Native peoples, including in the monetary gains that non-Native imposters sometimes make; the resources, jobs, leadership roles, and authority impostors can take up; and the inaccurate, stereotypical, and static images of Native people they often perpetuate, which perpetuate discursive violence by legitimating colonizations ongoing attempts to erase vibrant, diverse and contemporary Native peoples. and antlers. Until 2016 Pier Carlo Talenti was the director of new play development at Center Theatre Rulan has been honored with recognition including 2018-19 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Award for Service, Justice Freedom, Courage, and Gratitude; the 2016 A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art ; 2016-17 Santa Fe Art Institute's Water themed artists residency ; 2016 Catalyst Initiative from Center for Performance and Social Practice ; 2015 Arts & Social Change Award from Arts and Healing network; New Mexico School for the Arts Community Leadership Award and was honored as a top ten finalist across all disciplines for Nathan Cummings Fellowship for Social Change . 11 essentially glued back together, with gold. founding artistic director. Rulans role in many of these endeavors has been as a creative conduit for Native and Indigenous diasporic community members, and as a bridge across divides bysupporting their desires to tell their stories. personally, professionally, financially, every different way. Upcoming, new, and past Rulan Tangen movies, TV shows, TV movies, appearances, specials, and more -- plus, a biography, news, awards, and nominations. Jan Erkert. 3 Now I know that these programs are going to be different. I do not claim bloodline, enrolled membership, or citizenship to any North American tribal nations or First Nations. Artistic Director Rulan Tangen is an Indigenous my arms right now, theyre making this twisted shape, and if I was to pantomime branch With these community kinship ties, I and others have inaccurately associated my identity as North American Native. wasnt that much admin support. With an unsteady childhood, Rulan often found herself staying with maternal grandparents who originally came from Luzon Island of Philippines and made their home in San Francisco after World War II. 12. After years of teaching dance workshops to youth across the continent including Native reservations, she strove to create hope and opportunity for aspiring performers, theater artists and technicians, who also become culture carriers, art educators, and leaders. That to remove kinship citations would be to devalue the cultural honor that was the ceremonial purpose of being named, or the kinship connection of being welcomed as family by community members. also. We say as humans, I feel We don't have a biography for Rulan Tangen. What I do when I feel things are not fair, I move into double-, triple-timing. Accompanists' Bio. The photographer's over-2,000 published portraits of Native Americans, representing more than 80 tribes, or what Curtis called the "vanishing race," and constituting his iconic magnum opus The North American Indian, have, over the past century, shaped American perspectives on First Nations peoples. to what that is because like I said I want it to evolve from our time together. She is the Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer of DANCING EARTH, noted in Dance Magazine as "One of the Top 25 To Watch," and winner of the National Dance Project Production and Touring Grant, as well as the National Museum of American Indian's Expressive Arts award. Later continuing to New York working professionally in ballet and eventually in modern dance through Peridance (with choreographer/mentor Miguel Valdez Mor) and then her extended career as a soloist with Michael Mao Dance, with whom she toured Norway and France (origin lands of surnames on her fathers side). also lead to other patterns that arent healthy. last a real, real long time. What I did with some of those bones, I remade them into Rulan Tangen. This interview has been edited for length also. Rulans positioning in the arts world is to provide creative-cultural-contemporary experiences for Native youth, and to make opportunities for Indigenous dancers (and all aspects of production) through paid professional activities such as workshops, touring and performance making. After its founding in 2004, the Dancing Earth company worked for six years on a shoestring budget from basic earned income, then with project-based support including: During times when theres been a lack of grant and income, Dancing Earth has been powered by in-kind support from a loving community. of being busy! But I think I find it very difficult to say no when people are reaching The Hunka relationship may be difficult to understand outside of Lakota culture, yet it binds each to Hunka ties of fidelity stronger than friendship, sisterhood, or family, and a relationship with spirit that cannot be undone. and dancer when in 2004 she survived a bout with Stage 4 cancer. that. Publicity Listings The company artists, tech crew, collaborators, volunteers, interns, and staff include people who are Indigenous to the Americas, enrolled Native Americans, non-enrolled Native Americans, Native and Global Indigenous heritage peoples. View Rulan Tangen's record in Santa Fe, NM including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Anti-Racism; COVID-19; Residency. implodes and collapses. right to me. crises, one which was very personal for you and the other one being a pandemic. Dancing Earth is a mixed-heritage company that creates contemporary dance deeply rooted Theres a constant cultivation of the light Photo: Randi Lynn Beach. and we have big dusty winds which I always get kind of irritated by. Some of the dancers had put three years of their So the Rulan Tangen is 54 years old and was born on 01/05/1967. 10. Highest Rated: 59% Woman Walks Ahead (2017) Lowest Rated: 59% Woman Walks Ahead (2017) Birthday: Not Available . She is recipient of Kennedy Centers 2018-19 Citizen Artist fellowship, for Service, Justice, Freedom, Courage, and Gratitude . Rulan Tangen. The people who had no admin staff to fire or the people who have been honing strategies afoot, that all of this decomposition time is leading to something different, and She has recruited and nurtured a new generation of Indigenous contemporary dancers and holds the belief that "to dance is to live, to live is to dance". fall things started to shift where all that had been really given to artists over 8. (2020 update: In acknowledgement that this is not the same as ancestral bloodline, moving forward these personal relationships will be upheld privately and culturally.). As Founding Artistic Director/Choreographer of DANCING EARTH, she has passionately cultivated successive generations of Indigenous contemporary performing artists, and bodies Her belief in dance as purposeful center of continuance of life. better. Im a resilient survivor, and I am looking to not be victimized or not self-victimized. Its not like Comment Share. look at those rocks, you realize that your sense of time and your sense of action Popular; Now Playing; Upcoming; Top Rated; TV Shows. See full bio Born: in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK Her approach is: 1) To contact the funding agencies directly and ask for details of their definition of cultural eligibility (these might include: Enrolled/not enrolled, US States both mainland and island, US territories beyond US continental borders, Canada, Americas, mixed heritage, people living on original homelands, global Indigenous peoples), to understand if any or all of the below criteria would allow Rulan or Dancing Earth to be considered. This chapter proposes that the steady, patient building of heat in Tangen's work also decolonizes the broader field of contemporary dance as she centralizes strategies of re-storying, Land Dances, pluriversal technique, platiality, practices of repetition, and imaginations of whole futures in dance. Rulan Tangen is an internationally accomplished dance artist and choreographer. 7 The first part that I learned was from the wind. Cultural Identity: Rulan Tangen Confronting ecological collapse, choreographer Rulan Tangen creates seeds : ReGeneration. to. strategic plan and a little organizational mapping, because the priority for me is Rulan Tangen of Dancing Earth explores her personal path to embrace and embody heritage of humanity in her dance , dedicating her work to nurturing creativity , communities and cultures through her artistic practice. led to the founding of Dancing Earth in 2004. Fletcher Opera Institute: Orlando Paladino Feb 3-7, 2023. Dancing Earth has shared workshops and performances in eighteen states and nine countries, and continues to perform in a variety of venues, spanning gymnasiums on reservations, riverbeds in canyons, college dance studios, opera houses, and now online platforms. While there, Rulan became involved with Northern Traditional powwow dancing and helped start the Maka Chante childrens powwow dance group. I looked at them, and I was like, You know, this was something live That didnt seem Latest posts by 500 Nations . When all that happens, then I move to the third teacher, which is a rock. During this time of hardship, Dancing Earth not only employed my work as a creator. with or without funding for years, their strategies are what other people are turning common mundane part of this story is that we all were completely out of work, I think in an instant, Rulan and her collaborators learned to become even more limber than at a time here and there, but we didnt have a team or a system because I was centering own projects and doing that for their own communities, where they are. with you. DANCE MAGIC DANCE Artist + Ethereal Spirit, Rulan Tangen is a part of an inclusive movement that works tore-Indigenize + Decolonize performance at every level Video + Images captured by Olga Nazarova In watching Rulan move I was deeply struck by the way she communicates with her body - that force and connection. the time. Instead of dancers, I had bones and her, for the dreaming and doing of Dancing Earth: moving the world into renewal. life into creating this work. - IMDb Mini Biography By: CANCELLED: Robert Young, Saxophone, in Recital Jan 21, 2023, Jennifer Montone in Recital Jan 22, 2023, Stephen Mills: The Alchemy of Art Jan 22, 2023, Happy Birthday, Wolfgang Amadeus! new business, which doesnt sound so new now but I didnt know anything about doing Rulan: Oh, from the beginning. Im not so much on social media, but when I am, Im OK, what worked, what didnt work? see. So for Dancing Earth, I think that took the form of appearing inactive for a - Natalie Benally, Din. Inter-tribal and International Indigenous collaborating community and artists, as well as recent emerging female leaders include: Anne Pesata (Abaachi), BA in Environmental Policy with a minor in Peace and Conflict Studies, who subsequently worked as a Community Health Representative with the Jicarilla Community Health & Fitness Center, andspearheading a variety of different programs to serve her community. I feel thats part of being an older artist, to be able to take relationships and Read the full biography of Rulan Tangen, including facts, birthday, life story, profession, family and more. theres a heightened sensibility, theres a heightened refinement of intention that So many folks came forward: Lift up, prop it back up, heres what you should Yeah, from the beginning. I feel thats part of Pier Carlo: Since were using the term weeds, the scrappy weeds are the ones that survive. In 2019, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Leadership funding allowed Dancing Earth to retain a part time management cohort (still paid at same rate as artists), and to secure and expand multi-disciplinary cultural arts education and training programs. 2 Contemporary Dance Creations refers to first peoples globally. perhaps with video performance or maybe they already had those skills, they had different At 15, Tangen moved to New York City from San Francisco with 40 bucks in her pocket and the poise to hone her classical skills with ballet master David Howard. And I thought of times when during different seasons to the desert and the dried riverbed, which many look at I had just come back from the Bay, and I was in New Mexico at Even though I think the sort of I look at the smooth river rock, are continually evolving, looking at what seems to be done, over, dead, dried up, Group in Los Angeles where he oversaw one of the countrys most vigorous new-play She is a recipient of the Costo Medal for Education, Research and Service by UC Riversides Chair of Native Affairs, and an honoree of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation for their first dance Fellowship for Artistic Innovation. She has recruited and nurtured subsequent generations of global Indigenous contemporary dancers and holds the belief that "to dance is to live, to live is to dance". Her choreography has been commissioned by venues including the Heard Museum AZ, Society for Dance Historians conferences in Canada and USA, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics NY, Teatro Nunes in Brasil, Centro Cultural of Buenos Aires Argentina, in New Mexico for Santa Fe Art Institute, Native Roots and Rhythms Festival, Santa Fe Dance Festival, Native Cinema Showcase at the Center for Contemporary Arts, in California for the Idyllwild Arts Program, Festival, Aqua Caliente Cultural Museum CA; in Canada for the International Aboriginal Choreographers Workshop, McMichaels Gallery, Peterborough Art Gallery, Living Rituals World Indigenous Dance Festival, Toronto Harbourfront's Roots Remix, and Planet IndigenUs Festival; and including films Apocalypto (director Mel Gibson) and The New World (director Terrence Malick). Im the deeper question is the role of artists in society, especially when the whole thing Rulans dance career includes opera and circus performance, educational programming, and international engagements in Canada with Karen Jamieson Dance, which was a site specific project The River. With Rulans support in project conceptualization for proposals, the company continues to offer dignified arts work with ongoing applications for foundation, grant, and fundraising support to supplement earned income. we had been doing meant that there were a lot of groups that were reaching out to many groups that still wanted someone to come and teach online twice a week. Tangenwho identifies as mixed culturally, including Native, Polynesian, and European heritagesfounded and directs Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance . Rulan: Yup. She creates discourse on how climate change is a symptom of injustice and people not respecting all forms of life. We use cookies to provide you with a great experience and to help our website run effectively. She believes in this form of dance as continuing the link of culture - from ancient to futuristic - and culminates in her vision for Dancing Earth -Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations.Devoted towards developing the innovative field of Indigenous contemporary dance, Rulan has taught extensively in Native communities throughout the hemisphere, including youth and community projects under the auspices of the Native Wellness Institute and the National Dance Institute.

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