Talking Sh*t With Tara Cheyenne

Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance

Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music

Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world- highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season) The River with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.

Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance

Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music

Links: 

www.nantam.ca

www.wakeofvultures.com

Upcoming Shows:

Yellow Objects Firehall Arts Centre until May 29th

http://firehallartscentre.ca/onstage/yellow-objects-exhibition/

Autumn Strawberry (Surrey Art Gallery)

https://www.surrey.ca/arts-culture/surrey-art-gallery/exhibitions/cindy-mochizuki-autumn-strawberry

K BODY AND MIND (Open Ears Festival)

https://openears.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-Program.pdf

In Development:

Walking at Night by Myself (2021 Summer-Fall)

Double Happiness: Detour This Way (2021-2022)

Roost (on-going)

…wreckage upon wreckage… (2022 winter)

Sound artist, 譚亦斯 (Nancy Tam), is originally from Hong Kong. She and her family settled in the suburbs of Markham, Ontario on the traditional territories of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe peoples in the mid 90s. After some time, she moved to the Haldimand Tract—land that was granted to the Haudenosaunee of the Six Nations of the Grand River for music school in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. In 2011, she moved to the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations—Vancouver. She is very grateful to be part of loving and welcoming communities throughout her journey in art and in life, and this journey has afforded her many unique opportunities. She is a founding member of the Vancouver-based performance collective A Wake of Vultures, the Toronto-based Toy Piano Composers collective, and has toured with her work throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. She is an award-winning composer. Nancy’s work centres around the philosophy that sound is distant touch.

She continues to explore ways to elicit embodied and emotional responses using sound and performance as her primary media. Using multi-channel audio, and musical composition her current research triangulates between sound, space, and body to investigate tendencies of global and local mobilizations of creatures, objects, and events. Her work is form-bending and dramaturgically rigorous, often bringing the background to the forefront in creating immersive scenographic environments. Nancy has a penchant for listening to quiet sounds.

Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world- highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season) The River with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.

Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance

Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music

Links: 

Balancing Act:

http://balancingactcanada.com/

Intersections of Care:

https://www.cda-acd.ca/docs/Regional%20Activities%202020%20-%2021/Artist%20Caregiver%202021/Intersections-ENG.pdf

Dance Makers:

http://dancemakers.org/

About Susie:

Active in the performing arts in Canada for over 25 years, dance artist Susie Burpee is a performer, creator, teacher, and mother to two young children. She danced for many years with Dancemakers, Le Groupe Dance Lab, and Tedd Robinson (10 Gates Dancing) and recently with Hanna Kiel (Human Body Expression) and Alyssa Martin (Rock Bottom Movement). Augmenting her dance training with studies in Bouffon and character work, Susie has collaborated on projects with Crow’s Theatre, Dusk Dances, Nightwood Theatre, and with longtime colleague Linnea Swan. Her work has received Dora Mavor Moore Awards for both Outstanding Choreography and Performance and she is a recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Dance. Susie is on guest faculty at many post-secondary dance programs across the country, and in 2020, she completed a Master of Arts in Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at The University of Toronto.  She is originally from rural Manitoba, a second-generation settler on the original lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. Since 2001, Toronto/Tkaronto has been her home; she now works there with Theatre Direct as producer of Balancing Act, a national platform to support caregivers in the performing arts. 

Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world- highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season) The River with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.

Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance

Links: 

Made In BC Dance On Tour: 

https://www.madeinbc.org/

Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative

https://www.pepatian.org/

JaneJane Productions

http://www.janejaneproductions.com

International Community of Performing Arts Curators

http://cica-icac.org/

Zahra Shahab

https://zahrashahab.ca/

Mariko Tanabe

https://marikotanabe.com/

Peggy Baker

https://peggybakerdance.com/

Mikail Bakhtin (philosopher)

https://www.azquotes.com/author/42020-Mikhail_Bakhtin

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mikhail-Bakhtin

Toni Morrison

https://www.tonimorrisonsociety.org/

https://www.azquotes.com/author/10441-Toni_Morrison (for fun & inspiration)

About Jane:

Jane Gabriels, Ph.D. (she/her) is a performer, writer, curator/producer. Since 2018, she's worked as Executive Director of "Made in BC – Dance on Tour," an arts service organization with a network of theatres and local dance champions connecting dance artists with audiences throughout the province. In collaboration with other artists and partners, she also supports the work of the Bronx-based non-profit arts organization, Pepatián:Bronx arts ColLABorative. She co-edited and contributed writings to Curating Live Arts: Critical perspectives, essays, and conversations on theory and practice (Berghahn Books, 2018), and Essays from Configurations in Montreal: Performance curation and communities of colour (Duke Univ and Concordia Univ, 2018), as well as contributing an essay about dance maker Merián Soto to Latina Outsiders (Routledge Press, 2019).  She produced two documentary videos: "Women in Hip-Hop Rep the Bronx” and "Out of La Negrura/Out of Blackness in the Bronx” (distributor: Third World Newsreel). In Vancouver, she created an annual residency project to support emerging dancers and writers of colour. With Caridad De La Luz and Ana Rokafella Garcia, she is co-teaching “Women in Hip-Hop Rep the Birthplace” which had its debut at Simon Fraser University, Fall 2020. Ideas about levitation are the focus of her next performance project supported by BC Arts Council, and writing projects include a fictional work set along lake shores, and a very ongoing, slowly created, work-in-progress about her experiences working in The Bronx. She believes in expansive thinking and encouraging artists to Go For It.

Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world- highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season) The River with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.

Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance

Show Notes:

Links: 

Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world- highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season) The River with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.

Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance

Show Notes:

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director and writer. Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, she is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level"(The Georgia Straight).

Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world- highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season) The River with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.

Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance

Show Notes:

Ziyian Kwan's shop MORROW: 

http://dumbinstrumentdance.com/category/morrow/

Kate’s training, collaborators and work: 

Quinte Ballet School Of Canada

https://quinteballetschool.com/

Ballet BC:

https://balletbc.com/

Emily Molnar:

https://www.ndt.nl/en/team/emily-molnar/

Toronto Dance Theatre:

https://tdt.org/

At The Wrecking Ball:

https://atthewreckingball.wordpress.com/about/

KAEJA Dance: 

https://www.kaeja.org/

Matjash Mrozewski:

https://dancemadeincanada.ca/artists/matjash-mrozewski/

Justine A. Chambers:

https://justineachambers.com

Kate Holden:

http://kateholden.ca/Dance_Artist.html

Company 605:

http://company605.ca/

Tara Cheyenne Performance:

https://www.taracheyenne.com/

Modus Operandi:

https://www.outinnerspace.ca/mo/

Marc Boivin:

https://www.edcm.ca/en/school/team/marc-boivin

Valerie Calam:

http://www.companyviceversa.com/

Gold Saucer Studio:

http://remysiu.com/gold-saucer-studio-ongoing

Tara’s training, collaborators and mentors:

Royal Winnipeg Ballet:

https://www.rwb.org/school/

Simon Fraser University:

https://www.sfu.ca/sca/programs/dance.html

University of Calgary:

https://www.ucalgary.ca/future-students/undergraduate/explore-programs/drama

Green Thumb Theatre:

https://www.greenthumb.bc.ca/

Radix Theatre:

http://www.radixtheatre.org/

Denise Clarke:

https://www.oyr.org/the-company/the-ensemble/denise-clarke

Nigel Charnock:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/aug/07/nigel-charnock

"Highgate":

https://www.taracheyenne.com/highgate

"Happier With Gretchen Rubin" Ep. 251:

https://gretchenrubin.com/podcast-episode/251-try-the-eight-stones-method/

Obsessions!

Eve - Who's That Girl? (Official Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N9PL3Iz3xc

Brooklyn Nine-Nine:

https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/70281562?source=35

RuPaul’s Drag Race:

https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/70187741?source=35

Crip Camp:

https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81001496

Animal Crossing:

https://animal-crossing.com/

Hannah Gadsby:

https://hannahgadsby.com.au/

https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81054700

Patton Oswalt:

https://pattonoswalt.com/

https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81206879

The Office:

https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/70136120?source=35

Tara’s "Laura Lockdown" Videos:

https://www.instagram.com/taracheyennetcp/channel/

Spike Ball:

https://spikeball.com/

Hannah’s Film Project:

https://ent-nts.ca/en/blog-art-apart-ordinary-orchestra

About:

Hannah Meyers

Jaqueline Ritter is a graduate of SFU’s BFA program in Contemporary Dance. Having started ballet classes at the age of three, Jaqueline has committed her entire life to exploring ways to express herself through movement. During her time at SFU, Jaqueline has had the privilege of training under and performing in works by Judith Garay, Rob Kitsos, Chick Snipper, Vanessa Goodman, Yossi Berg and Oded Graf Dance Theatre (Israel), and many others. Jaqueline will soon be launching a choreographic career of her own, with an interest in creating pieces that appeal to her audiences’ emotional and kinesthetic senses of empathy.

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director and writer. Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, she is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level"(The Georgia Straight).

Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world- highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season) The River with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.

Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance

Show Notes:

Short:

Jeanette Kotowich is a Vancouver-based dance artist and choreographer of Cree Métis and European ancestry. Originally from Treaty 4 territory Saskatchewan, Jeanette is passionate about blending contemporary and Indigenous practices. Jeanette is currently choreographing a full-length, solo dance performance called Kisiskâwican. Previous works include:  Eloise (2017) and Steppin’ (2015) which toured to more than 40 stages across Canada, including BC, Ontario, Saskatchewan and the Yukon. She is co-founder of Métis dance collective Acuhko Simowuk and works as a company dancer with Dancers of Damelahamid, Raven Spirit Dance, and V’ni Dansi. She is a Laureate of the Hnatyshyn Foundation REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards.  

Website:

http://movementhealing.ca

Valley Journal: recent land-base research residency for Kisiskâwican in Saskatchewan

http://movementhealing.ca/valley.html

Co-VIDS: Video offerings made during the pandemic

http://movementhealing.ca/covids.html

F-O-R-M Festival: my newest video, Territory, which speaks to embodying territory & land acknowledgement - Festival opening Sept 12th

http://www.f-o-r-m.ca/2020-films

Instagram:

movement_healing

Long:

Jeanette Kotowich is a Vancouver-based dance artist and choreographer of Cree Métis and European ancestry. Originally from Treaty 4 territory in Saskatchewan, Jeanette is passionate about blending contemporary and Indigenous practices. Jeanette is currently choreographing a full-length, solo dance performance called Kisiskâwican. Previous works include:  Eloise (2017) presented by Magnetic North, Vancouver International Dance Festival, Native Earth Performing Arts, Raven Spirit Dance, New Dance Horizons, and Bulkley Valley Concert Association. Steppin’ (2015) toured more than 30 stages across Canada, including BC, Ontario, Saskatchewan and the Yukon. Jeanette is a co-founder of Métis dance collective Acuhko Simowuk.

She works as a company dancer with Dancers of Damelahamid, Raven Spirit Dance, and V’ni Dansi and creates her own work. Jeanette co-ordinates the annual Coastal Dance Festival, is a member of the Full Circle First Nations Performing Arts Ensemble, and the Indigenous Performing Art Alliance. Jeanette has worked with artists Charles Koroneho, Carlos Rivera, Jessica McMann, Yvette Nolan, Deanna Peters, Tara Cheyenne-Friedenberg, and Su-Feh Lee. She is a Laureate of the Hnatyshyn Foundation REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards. 

www.movementhealing.ca 

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director and writer. Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, she is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level"(The Georgia Straight).

Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world- highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season) The River with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.

Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance

Show Notes:

Artists currently displaying and selling their work at Morrow:

http://dumbinstrumentdance.com/category/morrow/

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director and writer. Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, she is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level"(The Georgia Straight).

Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world- highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season) The River with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.

Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance

Show Notes:

Tasha Faye Evans is a Coast Salish dance and theatre artist with grandparents also from Wales as well as European Jewish descent. Her career continues to be a collection of collaborations and performances with national and international Indigenous artists, including Starr Muranko’s "Spine of the Mother", Raven Spirit Dance’s  "Salmon Girl and Confluence", Marie Clements’ "The Unnatural and Accidental Women", and Thomson Highway’s "The Rez Sisters".  She is currently creating a new dance solo in collaboration with carver Ocean Hyland called, "Cedar Woman". Tasha has also been focusing on redress and Coast Salish cultural resurgence, particularly in Port Moody, BC where she is raising her two children. Over the past four years, she has been engaging Port Moody and the public at large in arts-based community development projects offering Coast Salish cultural events and education led by local First Nations artists and Knowledge Keepers. She is responsible for two Coast Salish house posts designed, carved and raised in ceremony and is in the process of coordinating Port Moody’s third National Indigenous Peoples Day event.  She has produced three festivals, including the "Welcome Post Project", "Stawk: Water is Life", and "Xapayay: Tree is Life" online festival and art show. This past year,Tasha collaborated with Kwikwetlem  and Tsleil Waututh Nation to create the first two of five posts she hopes to raise along Port Moody’s iconic 2.5 km Shoreline Trail. These posts will create a path of healing along the water and reignite the stories and songs of the Coast Salish Nations who have been caring for this land long before it was known as Port Moody. 

Links:

A Message from Tasha Faye Evans, Curator:

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director and writer. Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, she is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level"(The Georgia Straight).

Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world- highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season) The River with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.