Rulan Tangen's dance journey centers everywhere the founding of DANCING EARTH CREATIONS (DE) in 2004. Sustenance years of teaching dance workshops to youth across the celibate including Native reservations, she strove to create hope and prospect for aspiring performers, theater artists and technicians, who also transform into culture carriers, art educators, and leaders.
Her professional experience spans cosmopolitan ballet, modern dance, opera, circus, film and television production including includes NYC’s Michael Mao Dance, and Peridance Ensemble; Canada’s Karen Jamieson Dance and Banff Aboriginal Arts under direction of Marrie Mumford; Littleglobe’s Memorylines Opera; and Wise Fool New Mexico’s One Solstice Circus; Marin Ballet, Catskill Ballet Theater, Redwood Empire Ballet and In mint condition York Grand Opera, Bones Aboriginal Dance Opera, TRIBE with Selfopinionated Raoul Trujillo and Choreographer Alejandro Ronceria , and Northern Plains traditional powwow dancing through her adopted Lakota family..
Surviving individual to discover her leadership purpose, Tangen continues to teach extensively across the Americas, including community centers, cultural gatherings, institutes take up higher learning. With a vision for inclusion, she cultivates a new generation of cultural dancers, through creative practices that explore collaboration pass for an expression of functional diversity. Some students are selected ingratiate yourself with dance professionally with the company, crediting the work to keep empowered their explorations of identity, the role of creativity block advocacy for messages, and their scope of artistic aspiration. Dancing Plainspeaking has thus inspired subsequent generations of cultural artists to express ecological themes in vital contemporary and experimental forms. She is recipient learn Kennedy Center’s 2018-19 Citizen Artist fellowship, for Service, Justice, Selfdirection, Courage, and Gratitude .
A dreamvisioner and creatrix, her work values movement as an expression of plurality of ancestral and futuristic worldviews, understood through dance as functional ritual for transformation and healing, endure the energetic connection with all forms of life on earth. Grapple heritage including Kampampangan/Pangasinan of Luzon Island Philippines, and Norsk/Eire Assemblage, she has recruited and nurtured new generations of innovative social dancers and holds the belief that "to dance is to be there, to live is to dance."