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Rulan Tangen: ModernTraditions

"... talent that sparkles...delightful spontaneity and energy... the ethnic flavors of the southwest"

Rulan Tangen is a lifelong dance artist, having performed in the U.S., Canada, and Europe in the fields of ballet, modern dance, and traditional powwow dance. As a young dancer she toured Europe with Michael Mao Dance, and was exposed to dramatic Tanztheater and Martha Graham aesthetics. Later she formed Maka Chante, a traditional dance company of Native children. She has been a featured artist for the Banff Centre for the Arts Aboriginal Dance Program, Native Roots and Rhythms in Santa Fe, the National Dance Institute, and the World Indigenous Peoples Conference. She appeared with Robert Mirabal on the national PBS broadcast "Music from a Painted Cave," and toured 80 U.S. cities with Mirabal. In March of 2004 she was one of a select group of choreographers participating in the Aboriginal Choreographers' Symposium in Toronto. She wholeheartedly believes that dance can inspire the world towards diversity, solidarity and freedom.

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Jen Fox Bennett featured at Hot Poetry Spots

Jennnifer is an Ojibway and Odawa Band member of the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on the ethereal Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada. She has been published in the anthology, RESIST! (AK Press Inc.), and zines, Third Space, and They Called Her A Firebrand. Her first chapbook, Left to Shatter (Monkey Book Press), is, sad to say, currently out-of-print.
As a storyteller, Jennifer has also read at numerous open mic's and feature readings throughout the Bay Area, and was recently cast as a member of The Herstories Project's, "BONE SONGS: Echoes of the Unknown Mother." She also appeared as a performer at the San Francisco Native American Health Center's Electric Pow Wow 2004.
She has lived in many places between two oceans: a suburban wasteland in Florida, the menacing halls of Cornell University (where she received her B.S.), and the dirt roads and boréal forests of her Reserve. She now finds herself in the lovely San Francisco Bay Area.

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Indian breakdancers Alejandro Meraz and Thosh Collins break it down at a Forrealism opening in 2004.