Rulan tangent biography

Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer

Rulan Tangen

Rulan Tangen's dance journey centers around the founding of DANCING EARTH CREATIONS (DE) in 2004. 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. 

Her professional experience spans international 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 New York Grand Opera, Bones Aboriginal Dance Opera, TRIBE with Director Raoul Trujillo and Choreographer Alejandro Ronceria , and Northern