Talking Sh*t With Tara Cheyenne
Arts:Performing Arts
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Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music
My name is Sophia Mai Wolfe (she/her/hers), I am a queer, Japanese-Canadian independent artist whose practice is ever-changing. My practice moves and connects me to live performance, video documentation, curation, festival programming, editing, filmmaking, and directing. I am a grateful guest of what is colonially know as Vancouver on the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish),and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. My dance practice has led me to performing and touring internationally with companies and independent choreographers such as Company 605, Co-Erasga, Chick Snipper, Cindy Mochizuki, Lisa Mariko Gelley, Kelly McInnes, Antonio Somera, Zahra Shahab, The Only Animal and New World Theatre.
I hold an MA in Screendance from the London Contemporary Dance School, and am the founding Artistic Director of F-O-R-M (Festival Of Recorded Movement). Through completing my MA, I became interested in making work that challenges and slows our attention. I use film and dance to invite connection and empathy towards the bodies we witness on screen, as well as invite sensation within the bodies of those witnessing. I work independently and collaboratively with artists and communities to engage audiences in work that moves them through embodied and imaginative experiences.
I am also involved with videocan as a video archivist and on the research team which is an online archive of Canadian performance directed by Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim. I have also curated screenings for New Blue Dance Festival (Toronto), Vancouver Art Gallery, DOTE (Vancouver) and Body+Camera (Chicago).
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 12 - Art in the time of COVID-19
Episode 11 - Interview with Theatre Artist Melanie Yeats
Episode 10 - Interview with Dance Artist Alanna Kraaijeveld
Episode 9 - Being Super Busy - The Art of Collaboration - Art Police (Your Best Art Making Conditions)
Episode 8 - 2020 Resolutions - Art Police - Interview with a Fabulous 8 Year Old Artist
Episode 7 - Criticism - Art Police - Interview with Dance Artist Zahra Shahab
Episode 6 - Silliness is Key - Creating under stress - Art Police
Episode 5 - The Simmer, make some shitty art - Interview with Dance Artist Kate Franklin
Episode 4 - Metrics of Success - Art Police - Interview with Dance Artist Miriam Colvin
Episode 3 - The End of a Project - A Balm for Staying the Course - Math Breaks
Episode 2 - Enthusiasm and Working Solo
Episode 1 - Interview Dance Artist Amber Funk Barton
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