Talking Sh*t With Tara Cheyenne
Arts:Performing Arts
Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP / FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance
Show Notes:
Olivia C. Davies
Olivia C. Davies is a Vancouver-based performer, choreographer, and community-arts facilitator of Ojibwe, Finnish, French Canadian, and Welsh heritage. Her practice has intrinsic ties to feminist politics and social justice and explores the emotional and political relationships between people and places.
Davies’ choreography transmits narrative. She has collaborated with Canadian spoken word artists Julie Peters (I Want, 2018) and Melissa Frost (Gidaashi, 2019), and with award-winning author Carmen Aguirre to adapt the short story Open Fire (2015). Davies combined forces with celebrated Coast Salish storyteller Rosemary Georgeson to create Crow’s Nest and Other Places She’s Gone (2017) exploring the shifting landscapes of refuge and dispossession experienced by Indigenous women. Directions (2018) was a site-specific activation of a residential property in East Vancouver that subverted the traditional view of audience/performer and was inspired by elements of the architectural design evident and the unseen forces of the natural world.
Davies’ works traverse boundaries and challenge social prejudice, conveying concepts and narratives that open different ways to see and experience the world. She is a founding member of the Circadia Indigena Aboriginal Arts Collective, Crow’s Nest Collective, and MataDanze Collective (Toronto). Davies is the founding Artistic Director of O.Dela Arts. Her work has been presented across Canada in Ontario, Quebec, and BC since 2004.
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.
Episode 49 - Interview with Starr Muranko (Dance Artist / Choreographer & Co-Artistic Director with Raven Spirit Dance)
Episode 48 - Interview With Sophia Wolfe (Dance Artist / Film & Video Artist)
Episode 47 - Interview With Kate Franklin (Dance Artist / Educator) and Caron Adderley (Coach / Fitness & Nutrition Expert)
Episode 46 - Interview With Fay Nass (community-engaged director, writer, dramaturg, innovator, producer, AD/ED, and educator)
Episode 45 - Interview With Natalie Tin Yin Gan and Ashley Whitehead (Creators / Performers)
Episode 44 - Interview With Sara Vickruck (Actor-Singer-Songwriter-Musician-Sound Designer)
Episode 43 - Interview With Mary-Louise Albert (Dance Artist, Artistic & Executive Director/Producer, Teacher)
Episode 42 - Interview With Lee Su-Feh (Performance Maker, Educator, Writer)
Episode 41 - Interview With Amanda Testini (Performer, Choreographer, Director)
Episode 40 - Interview with Emmalena Fredriksson (Contemporary Dance Artist / Choreographer / Teacher)
Episode 39 - Interview with Joanna Garfinkel (Dramaturg, Writer, Theatre-Maker)
Episode 38 - Interview with Myself - Origin Story
Episode 37 - Interview with Daisy Thompson (Choreographer, Performer, Writer)
Episode 36 - Interview with Denise Clarke (Creator, Performer, Writer)
Episode 35 - Interview with Naomi Brand (Performer, Choreographer, Writer and Facilitator)
Talking Shit TRAILER !
Episode 34 - Interview with khattieQ (Actor, Musician) and Jenny Larson-Quiñones (Writer, Theatre-Maker)
Episode 33 - Solstice Bonus - Moving Meditation plus Cafecito Recipe with Tara Cheyenne
Episode 32 - Interview with Carmen Aguirre - Author Playwright Actor Director
Episode 31 - All New 3rd Interview with Justine A. Chambers
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