Interview with Rulan Tangen (Dancing Earth) & Leland Chapin (Los Colores Studio).
Interview with Rulan Tangen (Dancing Earth) and Leland Chapin (Los Colores Studio), conducted by Jennifer Cayer as a part of the 6th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in June of 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina under the title CORPOLÍTICAS en las Américas: Formaciones de Raza, Clase y Género / Body Politics in the Americas: Formations of Race, Class and Gender (http://hemi.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/2007/index.html). Rulan Tangen is a lifelong dance artist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. She is the director and choreographer of the internationally acclaimed Dancing Earth Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (www.dancingearth.org). Leland Chapin (http://www.myspace.com/coloresstudio) is a bilingual visual artist and art instructor living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. He holds a bachelors degree in Fine Art and a masters degree in Teaching Visual Art. He is also an alumnus of Teach for America, 2001-2003. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics