Talking Sh*t With Tara Cheyenne
Arts:Performing Arts
Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP / FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance
Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music
Links:
PTC (Playwrights Theatre Centre):
https://www.playwrightstheatre.com/
PTC's Block D Program:
https://www.playwrightstheatre.com/programs/block-d/
Universal Limited:
https://www.universallimited.ca
About Joanna:
Joanna Garfinkel is the Dramaturg, Creative Engagement at Playwrights Theatre Centre and co-founder, with Yoshie Bancroft, of Universal Limited. Joanna's focus is in collaborative approaches to new play development, multidisciplinary, and site-specific work; upcoming projects include dramaturgy with ZeeZee Theatre/VACT on My Little Tomato, and the Queer & Trans playwriting unit; UL's development on To the Sea; PTC Associates Kamila Sediego's Engkanto and José Teodoro's Binary Star. She is also working on ongoing dance collaborations, including TCP's Pants. She is the co-creator, with Yoshie Bancroft, of JAPANESE PROBLEM, a site-responsive piece about the Japanese Canadian Incarceration, which has been performed site-specifically in Vancouver, at Soulpepper in Toronto, and in several locations in between. Joanna is struck by the systemic inequities that repeat in Canada, and to troubling those patterns through performance. Other notable credits include Berlin: The Last Cabaret at PuSh 2020, and the multi-award-winning Poly Queer Love Ballad, which toured to Theatre Passe Murailles in 2019. She has been nominated for three Jessie awards, winning one (Critics Choice for Innovation); was awarded the Pure Research grant from Nightswimming Theatre (Toronto), and has received the Sydney Risk award for directing. She moved to Vancouver to get her MFA in directing at UBC, and her focus since has been primarily in new play development, multidisciplinary, and site-specific work. She has trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company in New York.
About Tara:
Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director, writer, and artistic director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, working across disciplines in film, dance, theatre, and experimental performance. She is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level". Along with her own creations Tara has collaborated with many theatre companies and artists including; Zee Zee Theatre, Bard on the Beach, ItsaZoo Theatre, The Arts Club, Boca De Lupo, Ruby Slippers, The Firehall Arts Centre, Vertigo Theatre (Calgary).
With a string of celebrated solo shows to her credit (including bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, Body Parts, Pants), multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary bending ensemble creations Tara's work is celebrated both nationally and internationally. Tara is known for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. She is sought after for creating innovative movement for theatre and has performed her full length solos and ensemble works around the world (highlights: DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, High Performance Rodeo/Calgary etc.). Recent works include a collaboration with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, empty.swimming.pool, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria and Vancouver), ensemble creation, how to be, which premiered at The Cultch, and her solo I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, toured widely, and her newest solo Body Parts has been made into a stunning film which is currently touring virtually. Tara lives on the unceded Coast Salish territories with her partner composer Marc Stewart and their child.
Episode 50! Interview with Justine A. Chambers and Kate Franklin (Dance Artists, Choreographers, Educators)
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 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
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