Rulan Tangen of Dancing Earth explores her personal path to embrace and embody her cultural heritage in her dance and work to give back and bring together other indigenous communities through her artistic practice. Video by Storyline, Inc.

*Join us in advance of the performance, beginning at 5:45 p.m. for a pre-show assemblage of Native attendees and a welcome by Piscataway First Nations representatives.

The culmination of a 4-day residency at the Kennedy Center, which includes a school performance, master class for the Kennedy Center’s auditioned career trajectory program, Contemporary Dance Series, and public events listed below, 2018–2019 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow Rulan Tangen and Dancing Earth’s work, …SEEDS: RE GENERATION… is a purposeful performance that Indigen-izes space as vital transformative gathering ground. Centered in Indigenous ecological knowledge, Dancing Earth welcomes community to an immersive, interdisciplinary, and participatory contemporary dance ritual. ... SEEDS: RE GENERATION... evolves from Dancing Earth’s intertribal artists in exchanges with Native elders, farmers, foragers, seed savers, and food and water justice groups, in visioning sessions and movement workshops that root our restoring/restory-ing of land and people.