Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Episode 20 - Interview with Tasha Faye Evans: Coast Salish Dance and Theatre Artist, Activist and Educator
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.
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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.
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