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.

About Tara:

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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