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Friday Mar 20, 2020

Episode 11 - Interview with Theatre Artist Melanie Yeats

Friday Mar 20, 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
www.marcstewartmusic.com

© 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance

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Show Notes and links:

Melanie Yeats
melanieyeats.com
Links mentioned:
Ballet BC
https://balletbc.com/
Porno Death Cult
http://www.taracheyenne.com/porno-death-cult
Joanna Garfinkel
http://joannagarfinkel.com/
Anne Bogart
http://siti.org/content/anne-bogart
Anne's book: "A Director Prepares"
https://www.amazon.ca/Director-Prepares-Seven-Essays-Theatre/dp/0415238323/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Director+Prepares&qid=1584579576&sr=8-1
Édouard Lock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_La_La_Human_Steps
The Body Project
http://www.taracheyenne.com/the-body-project-1
Lizzo
https://www.lizzomusic.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj83ri3lSe0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK7oze-nu38

About Melanie:
Melanie Yeats (she/her) is a theatre maker living on the unceded territories of the the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Melanie has been fortunate to work for more than 20 years in the performing arts community and holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from Simon Fraser University.
As an artist, she has worked with a broad range of BC-based companies, such as Upintheair, Neworld, Mainly Dance, Joe Ink, Boca del Lupo, and Pi Theatre, collaborating on many new works, including interdisciplinary projects with theatre, dance, and music artists.
New to playwrighting, she is hard at work on her first full-length play, a cabaret currently titled Honey, an excerpt of which she presented at Indie Opera Week in 2019. Previously, she collaborated on several successful original cabaret performances, the most recent being Fever Cabaret, working with playwright Cory Philley and composer Joel DeStefano.
Melanie also works as an arts administrator, currently as Operations Manager at Playwrights Theatre Centre, previously with Gateway Theatre, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, and Firehall Arts Centre. She is also proud to chair the board of directors for Universal Limited Performance.

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.
© 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance

Sunday Mar 08, 2020

Episode 10 - Interview with Dance Artist Alanna Kraaijeveld

Sunday Mar 08, 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
www.marcstewartmusic.com

© 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance

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Show Notes and links:

Alanna Kraaijeveld
https://www.alannamoves.com/
VIDF (Vancouver Int'l Dance Festival: MODUS OPERANDI
Made and sustained by Alanna Kraaijeveld in collaboration with Modus Operandi artists and Kate Franklin, Line, Starting line, Practical questions, Disappear, Solos and small groups, Swirling, Space, All together is a scored improvised performance.
https://vidf.ca/performance/modus-operandi/
Modus Operandi:https://www.outinnerspace.ca/mo/

Fighting Monkey/Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek: https://fightingmonkey.net/about
Serge Bennathan: https://balletbc.com/bio/serge-bennathan/
Dancemakers: http://dancemakers.org/
Peter Boneham: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/peter-boneham
Le Groupe Dance Lab: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/le-groupe-dance-lab
Susanna Hood: http://susannahood.ca/
Cirque du Soliel: https://www.cirquedusoleil.com/
Ballet BC: https://balletbc.com/
Dave St-Pierre: https://www.dansedanse.ca/en/dave-st-pierre
Company 605: http://company605.ca/
ImpulsTanz: https://www.impulstanz.com/en/

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.
© 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance

Thursday Feb 06, 2020

Episode 9 - Being Super Busy - The Art of Collaboration - Art Police (Your Best Art Making Conditions)

Thursday Feb 06, 2020

Tuesday Jan 07, 2020

Episode 8 - 2020 Resolutions - Art Police - Interview with a Fabulous 8 Year Old Artist

Tuesday Jan 07, 2020

Monday Dec 16, 2019

Episode 7 - Criticism - Art Police - Interview with Dance Artist Zahra Shahab

Monday Dec 16, 2019

Tuesday Nov 26, 2019

Episode 6 - Silliness is Key - Creating under stress - Art Police

Tuesday Nov 26, 2019

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 scored by Marc Stewart
www.marcstewartmusic.com

© 2019 Tara Cheyenne Performance

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Show Notes:
Can we really create when we are under intense stress? Accepting when creativity isn’t possible.
When mis-reading something can lead you back the point. (hint: "Silliness is Key")
Art Police assignment 3: RELAX! Or try a few strategies to be a little more relaxed so you can make shit up.

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). TTara 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.
© 2019 Tara Cheyenne Performance

Monday Nov 04, 2019

Episode 5 - The Simmer, make some shitty art - Interview with Dance Artist Kate Franklin

Monday Nov 04, 2019

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 scored by Marc Stewart
www.marcstewartmusic.com

© 2019 Tara Cheyenne Performance

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Links:

http://www.katefranklin.ca/
Toronto Dance Theatre https://tdt.org/
Short film mentioned in interview http://www.allisonbeda.com/cinedance/allaboutyou
Modus Operandi https://www.outinnerspace.ca/mo/
Dance in Vancouver
https://thedancecentre.ca/event/div-opening-events/
About Kate:
Kate Franklin was born in North Bay, Ontario. She received her early dance education at Barbara Treleaven School of Dancing, then undertook her professional training at Quinte Ballet School.
She spent the first decade of her career based in Toronto, as an independent contemporary dance artist. She danced with numerous companies and choreographers, most notably Company Vice Versa (Valerie Calam), Zata Omm Dance Projects (William Yong), Matjash Mrozewski, and Kate Alton, amongst others.
Her own choreography was performed by dance training programs such as Quinte Ballet School, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, companies such as JD Dance and at festivals including At the Wrecking Ball and Dusk Dances.
Kate was a mobilizing force in the Toronto contemporary dance community. She worked with Series 8:08 for many years, and was the co-founder (with Tina Fushell) of Ambitious Enterprises, a company that produced five "At the Wrecking Ball" programs of interdisciplinary dance over ten years (from 2002-2012).
With Kate Holden, Franklin founded firstthingsfirst productions in 2005. Together, the Kates commissioned an impressive number of works from independent Canadian choreographers and produced three full-length evenings of dance.
Now living in Vancouver, Kate is the Associate Director of Modus Operandi, and has worked with choreographers Idan Cohen, Shauna Elton, Justine A. Chambers, Meredith Kalaman and companies Fight With a Stick Performance, Company 605 and Tara Cheyenne Performance. She regularly returns to Toronto to work with Company Vice Versa (Valerie Calam). Kate's own work has been shown most recently at Accelerate 2.0 and Boombox.
Kate is the recipient of the 2014 Dora Mavor Moore award for Outstanding Female Performance for the solo "Gotta Go Church" choreographed by Valerie Calam.
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). TTara 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.
© 2019 Tara Cheyenne Performance

Thursday Oct 24, 2019

Episode 4 - Metrics of Success - Art Police - Interview with Dance Artist Miriam Colvin

Thursday Oct 24, 2019

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 scored by Marc Stewart
www.marcstewartmusic.com

© 2019 Tara Cheyenne Performance

Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts/iTunes and Spotify

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Links:
Myriad Dance Projects:
www.myriadprojects.ca

Show Notes:
Segment 1 - Notes from the studio. My project is changing before my eyes. It’s hard to listen to myself and not get caught up in the “ideas” of what the project is supposed to be.
Segment 2 - Millenials corner. From a young Vancouver artist, Ileanna Cheladyn, who wrote to me that she fuels her ideas by surrounding herself with people she loves and that love her. Beautiful! Also a great quote from writer performer Jan Derbyshire: “you can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you”. Who are you surrounding yourself with?
Segment 3 - Art Police What are your metrics for success? Are you comparing yourself to your real peers? Or art stars who come from money and/or loads of crazy luck?
Your assignment, to collect yourself
Segment 4 - Inerview with dance artist Miriam Colvin
http://www.myriadprojects.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). TTara 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 Oct 09, 2019

Episode 3 - The End of a Project - A Balm for Staying the Course - Math Breaks

Wednesday Oct 09, 2019

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 scored by Marc Stewart
www.marcstewartmusic.com

© 2019 Tara Cheyenne Performance

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Show Notes:
In this episode I discuss the pang of melancholy when a project ends and how to transition to the next project. I talk about how hard it is to stay the course and offer a balm/incentive for staying the course-Its outside yourself and right beside you….And the quirky practicality of taking “math breaks"

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). TTara 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.
© 2019 Tara Cheyenne Performance

Saturday Sep 28, 2019

Episode 2 - Enthusiasm and Working Solo

Saturday Sep 28, 2019

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 scored by Marc Stewart
www.marcstewartmusic.com

© 2019 Tara Cheyenne Performance

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Links:
https://www.miguelgutierrez.org/

Show Notes:
How do you get your ideas off the page, out of your brain and into motion? If an idea is like a light bulb where is your power source? I talk about the power of enthusiasm and persistence and I offer some strategies for how to work solo.

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). TTara 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.
© 2019 Tara Cheyenne Performance