Talking Sh*t With Tara Cheyenne
Art making, creativity, not giving up, and living well in the process. 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).
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Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
Show notes below:
Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production
www.taracheyenne.com
Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP / FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance
Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music
www.marcstewartmusic.com
© 2021 Tara Cheyenne Performance
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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)
About Nancy:
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.
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.
Monday May 03, 2021
Monday May 03, 2021
Show notes below:
Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production
www.taracheyenne.com
Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP / FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance
Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music
www.marcstewartmusic.com
© 2021 Tara Cheyenne Performance
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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/
Susie Burpee:
http://susieburpee.com/
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.
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.
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Show notes below:
Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production
www.taracheyenne.com
Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP / FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance
Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music
www.marcstewartmusic.com
© 2021 Tara Cheyenne Performance
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Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to:
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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.
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.
Saturday Jan 30, 2021
Saturday Jan 30, 2021
Show notes below:
Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production
www.taracheyenne.com
Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP / FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance
Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music
www.marcstewartmusic.com
© 2021 Tara Cheyenne Performance
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Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to:
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386
Show Notes:
Links:
http://company605.ca/
Collaborator: Cindy Mochizuki
https://www.cindymochizuki.com/
Company 605 Sharing Series Artists:
Jessica Wilkie
https://www.facebook.com/jessica.wilkie.733
Zahra Shahab
https://zahrashahab.ca/
Josh Martin
http://company605.ca/artists/
Collaborators:
Kate Franklin
http://www.katefranklin.ca/
Avery Smith
https://www.facebook.com/avery.smith.3192/photos
Links:
Align Method
https://www.alignmethod.ca/
Academie Duello
https://www.academieduello.com/
About Lisa:
Lisa Mariko Gelley is a performer, teacher, choreographer, and mother, living and working on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She received her training in classical, contemporary, and urban dance forms in Canada and Europe. She trained and performed as a guest interpreter at Le Groupe Dance Lab in Ottawa under the direction of Peter Boneham, in one of the company’s final years of existence. Lisa is Artistic Co-Director of Company 605, a contemporary dance company in Vancouver, creating original works through collaborative processes with artists in dance and other disciplines. Lisa has worked and collaborated with artists including Dana Gingras, Justine A. Chambers, Cindy Mochizuki, Amber Funk Barton, Vanessa Goodman, Martha Carter, Karen Jamieson, and was a member of Aeriosa (Julia Taffe) for six years, broadening her practice to include vertical contemporary dance in rock climbing systems on urban building walls and mountains. In addition to her work as a performer/choreographer, Lisa values opportunities to connect with young dancers and emerging professionals through contemporary dance education. Lisa is the recipient of the 2015 Vancouver International Dance Festival Choreographic Award.
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.
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Show notes below:
Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production
www.taracheyenne.com
Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP / FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance
Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music
www.marcstewartmusic.com
© 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance
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Show Notes:
Links:
http://allbodiesdance.ca/performances-previous.html
https://momomovement.ca/
https://explorationdance.ca/
iDance Edmonton in 2008 (now known as CRIPSiE)
http://www.cripsie.ca/
Alice Sheppard’s film Inclinations:
https://alicesheppard.com/disabilitydanceworks/inclinations-a-dance-on-film-short/
Carolina Bergonzoni’s film Ho.Me.
https://filmfreeway.com/HoMEdancefilm
Donna Redlick/Somatic Movement
https://www.donnaredlick.com/
About Harmanie:
Harmanie Rose is a disabled dance artist living and working on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, also known as Vancouver, BC. She began her dance journey in 2006 on the Treaty 6 territory known as Edmonton, AB. She co-founded iDance Edmonton in 2008 (now known as CRIPSiE) before relocating to BC. Since 2014, Harmanie has worked as a performer, choreographer, and facilitator for the award-winning All Bodies Dance Project and as a facilitator for Ready Dance: an All Bodies Youth Project.
Harmanie has had the pleasure of studying with dance companies such as Axis Dance (US), Candoco Dance Company (UK), Amici Dance Theatre (UK), MoMo Mixed Ability Dance Theatre (AB, CAN), and DanceAbility International (USA). She has created three outdoor, site-specific pieces, and one site-specific dance short film for Vines Art Festival as well as performed in Dance in Vancouver( DiV), and Dancing on the Edge (DOTE). Watch her in three dance films including world-renowned dance artist Alice Sheppard’s Inclinations and Carolina Bergonzoni’s Ho.Me. Sanctuary, the dance film she co-created and danced in, had its world premiere in London at the Together! 2019 Disability Film Festival in December 2019. Also, in June 2019 Harmanie participated in UCLA’s inaugural Dancing Disability Lab (http://www.uei.ucla.edu/academic-programs/disability-studies/disability-inclusion-lab/arts/) to work with other professional disabled dance artists to answer questions around the culture and aesthetics of disabled dance.
Since March 2020, Harmanie has taught virtual Zoom dance classes for Momo Movement (AB), Exploration Dance Project (BC), All Bodies Dance Project (BC), Propeller Dance (ON), and the Kickstart Still, Life Festival (BC). Somatic Dance, as well as Inclusive community-engagement and ensemble improvisation, are at the core of her practice. Harmanie is interested in building relationships strengthened by movement and understanding the environment we are immersed in, whether that is the physical space around us or the virtual space where we engage in movement together.
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.
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
Show notes below:
Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production
www.taracheyenne.com
Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP / FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance
Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music
www.marcstewartmusic.com
© 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance
Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to:
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386
Show Notes:
Links:
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:
Kate Franklin
Award-winning dance artist Kate Franklin spent the first decade of her career in Toronto, where she was active as a performer, producer, choreographer, teacher, rehearsal director, administrator, volunteer and mentor. Living in Vancouver since 2012, she is Associate Director of Modus Operandi, and teaches professional level contemporary dance at Working Class and Ballet BC. She works as a collaborator/dancer with many independent choreographers and companies such as Tara Cheyenne Performance, Justine A. Chambers, Company 605, Jamie Robinson and Ne.Sans (Idan Cohen). She returns to Toronto regularly to continue her work with Valerie Calam/Company Vice Versa. Kate’s own choreography has been shown most recently at Boombox and Accelerate 3.0.
Sarah Hutton
instagram is @sarah_hutton
Sarah Hutton was born and raised in Hanna, Alberta where she discovered her love for movement at the age of five. Sarah continued her early dance education throughout southern Alberta in jazz, tap, and hip-hop and began to choreograph on herself and other students. She moved to Vancouver in 2013 to continue her training, joining the Source Dance Company under the direction of Joanne Pesusich. In 2016, she was chosen for a scholarship at EDAM Dance under Peter Bingham, where she studied contact improvisation. Her new curiosities led her to Modus Operandi where she graduated in 2020 under the direction of Tiffany Tregarthen, David Raymond, and Kate Franklin.
She has performed for creators Paras Terezakis (Kinesis Dance), Shay Kuebler (Radical System Art), Vancouver Fashion Week, Julie-anne Saroyan (Dances for a Small Stage), Kyle Toy, Heather Dotto, and Joanne Pesusich. She is also currently an apprentice with Shay Kuebler (Radical System Art).
Sarah continues to explore her own choreographic practice. Throughout the past four years, her choreography has been performed by the training program The Source Dance Company. Most recently her work has been performed at The Dance Centre’s Christmas Party in 2019.
Hannah Meyers
Driven by rhythms, patterns, colours and a heavy dose of romanticism. Likes to mismatch materials, modes of performance, theories, and histories. Recently, this has meant using found sound as a dialogue for a short video installation (Ordinary Orchestra, NTS Art Apart), board games as a tool to critique colonialism and capitalism (New Societies, Re:Current Theatre), poetry with exercise (The Albertine Workout, SFU), tap dancing through adaptations of adaptations (notnothamletmachine, THEATRECORPS), and rice crispy cereal on vanilla ice cream. A co-founder of Lo-Fi Spectacle Club; a nascent performing arts collective as idealistic as they come. A pandemic graduate (Simon Fraser University Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours in Theatre Performance). Walks and works on the stolen ancestral lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Walks and works on these lands as a queer, white, cisgender woman. Walks and works with contradiction. Mismatching and subverting form is both a proclivity and a political assertion.
Jaqueline Ritter
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.
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.
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Show notes below:
Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production
www.taracheyenne.com
Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP / FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance
Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music
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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
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.
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
Show notes below:
Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production
www.taracheyenne.com
Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP / FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance
Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music
www.marcstewartmusic.com
© 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance
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Ziyian Kwan has worked as a Vancouver based dance artist since 1988. As an interprète, she has performed close to 100 original creations by an eclectic range of choreographers on international stages, and is recipient of the Isadora Award for excellence in performance. Ziyian is Artistic Director of Dumb Instrument Dance, with which her work has been performed across Canada, receiving commissions and invitations from a generous community of presenting colleagues. Her work abstracts lived experience to create collages of surreal imagery, spoken forms and kinetic narrative. Over three decades, Ziyian’s artistry has been indelibly touched by collaboration with luminaries in the fields of dance, music, film, theatre, literature and visual art.
http://dumbinstrumentdance.com/
Artists currently displaying and selling their work at Morrow:
Dance Artists
Shion Skye Carter
Erika Mitsuhashi
Sarah Wong
Alexa Mardon
Francesca Frewer
Hayley Gawthrop
Jess Wilkie
Sarah Doucet (Twitch Designs)
Caitlin Griffin
Julia Carr
Oksana Augustine
Serge Bennethan
Dena Davida
Sound and Interdisc Artists:
Roxanne Nesbitt
Peggy Lee
Jo Passed
Anny Lin
Writers:
Lydia Kwa
Peter Dickinson
Visual Artists:
Jackson Chien
Ed Hunt
Ilze Bebris
Sauha Lee
Other Creatives:
Stephanie Ameyaw (Nhiyara Gems)
Jessica Wadsworth
Erin Carter
Vines Festival Artists:
Ida Manuel (Tiny House Warriors)
Valeen Jules
Jazz Whitford
Serisa Fitz-James
http://dumbinstrumentdance.com/category/morrow/
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.
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Show notes below:
Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production
www.taracheyenne.com
Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP / FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance
Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music
www.marcstewartmusic.com
© 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance
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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:
Xapayay: Tree of Life 2020 - noonscreek.org
noonscreek.org
Tasha will be an Artist-in-Residence at The Dance Centre this coming season:
https://thedancecentre.ca/residencies-projects/artist-in-residence/
Raven Spirit Dance:
https://ravenspiritdance.com/
Bard On The Beach:
https://bardonthebeach.org/whats-on/bard-beyond-the-beach/
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.
Saturday Jul 18, 2020
Saturday Jul 18, 2020
Show notes below:
Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production
www.taracheyenne.com
Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP / FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance
Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music
www.marcstewartmusic.com
© 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance
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Show Notes:
NEW Encore Interview with Justine A Chambers, dance-artist/thinker/activator.
I sit down again with the amazing Justine A Chambers, 4 months into the pandemic and 5 weeks into the overdue (by centuries) awakening to the necessity for racial justice, to check in on how she is doing as my friend and as a black woman, what she is thinking about, and hear her many great ideas and razor sharp insight.
Links:
First interview with Justine A Chambers April 26th 2020 (Episode 13):
https://taracheyenne.podbean.com/e/episode-13-interview-with-dance-artist-justine-a-chambers-creativity-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
Justine A. Chambers is a dance artist living and working on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her movement based practice considers how choreography can be an empathic practice rooted in collaborative creation, close observation, and the body as a site of a cumulative embodied archive. Privileging what is felt over what is seen, she works with dances that are already there –the social choreographies present in the everyday. She is Max Tyler-Hite’s mother.
Longer bio:
The anchors of Justine A. Chambers movement based practice are found in collaborative creation, close observation, and the idea of choreography as living archive. She is concerned with a choreography of the everyday; with the unintentional dances, as she describes them “that are already there.” Her recent choreographic projects include: and then also this, One hundred more, tailfeather, for all of us, it could have been like this, ten thousand times and one hundred more, Family Dinner, Family Dinner: The Lexicon, Semi-precious: the faceting of a gemstone only appears complete and critical; Enters and Exits and COPY.
Chambers’ work has been hosted at: Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Art Museum at University of Toronto, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Mile Zero Dance Society, Festival of New Dance, Agora de la danse, Canada Dance Festival, Dance in Vancouver, Dance Saskatchewan, Dancing on the Edge Festival, New Dance Horizons, The Roundhouse Community Arts Centre, Vancouver Art Gallery and the Western Front.
Chambers is a founding member of project bk, artist in residence at artist run centre 221A (2017), a selected artist for the Visiting Dance Artist Program at the National Arts Centre(2019-2020), recipient of the Lola Award in 2018, one of three choreographer’s in the Yulanda Faris Choreographer’s Program (2017-2018), associate artist and artist in residence to The Dance Centre (2015-2017),
Justine has collaborated on projects with:
Digital video artist Josh Hite: COPY: a movement based installation, Incoming, Green Boot Print (The Roundhouse Community Arts Centre, Code Lab and 350.org), Choreography Walk (2015: Vancouver, 2019: Hong Kong, 2019: Vancouver).
Choreographer and dancer Laurie Young: One hundred more
Visual artist Natalie Purschwitz and sound artist Anju Singh: Co-facilitation of Trackings and Trappings – Summer Institute at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art
Sound artist Elisa Ferrari: EMF Movement Studies.
Dance Artist Alexa Solveig Mardon and scholar Peter Dickinson: Our Present Dance Histories
Visual artist Evann Siebens: Homemade Again.
Dance artist Claudia Fancello: Light Was The Night: Night Shifting.
Musician Ben Brown: We’re Making a Band
Visual Artist Brendan Fernandes: The Working Move (The Western Front, The Stedelijk Museum)
Contemporary Gamelan Composer Michael Tenzer: Sphinx (Tour of Bali 2013)
Visual artist Jen Weih: Stack of Moves (Wrong Waves Festival 2013)
Visual artists Marilou Lemmens and Richard Ibghy: Is there anything at all left to do be done at all (Trinity Square Video)
Dance artist Deanna Peters: One + the Other (The Cultch and New Dance Horizons)
From 20212-2018, Chambers, Sadira Rodrigues and battery opera’s Su Feh Lee co-facilitated the monthly forum The Talking Thinking Dancing Body; a conversation about aesthetics, context and artistic processes.
As a dancer, she has worked with a number of choreographers both nationally and abroad. Including: ame henderson, sasha ivanochko, battery opera, adelheid dance projects, Company 605, Tara Cheyenne Performance, Oded Graf and Yossi Berg, Wen Wei Dance, Mascall Dance.
Chambers teaches contemporary dance technique at Arts Umbrella, Working Class, Toronto Community Love-In, Modus Operandi Training Program and Ballet BC. Justine is currently engaged as an artistic monitor for the work of Mardon + Mitsuhashi, and Amanda Acorn.
Chambers is Max Tyler-Hite’s mother.See More from Justine Chambers
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.