Rulan Tangen

Rulan Tangen is an internationally renowned dance artist and choreographer.  She is the Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer 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. She is also recipient of the Costo Medal for Education , Research and Service by UC Riverside’s Chair of Native Affairs and is  fellow of the Global Centre for Cultural Entrepreneurship.

As performer and choreographer, she has worked in ballet, modern dance, circus, tv, film, theater , opera and Native contemporary productions in the USA, Canada, France, Norway, Mexico, Brasil and Argentina.

Ms Tangen was invited by Washington University as Visiting Distinguished Scholar, and for artistic residencies at  Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts, by Arizona State University, UC Riverside, and University of New Mexico , as well as extensive teaching work in Indigenous communities across the Americas.