Podcast appearances and mentions of Justine A Chambers

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    © 2024 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   Links: https://www.erikamitsuhashi.com/ https://holdonletgo.ca/performance/wherevereverhttps://www.katefranklin.ca/ About Erika: Erika Mitsuhashi is an interdisciplinary artist and performer living and working on the unceded, ancestral, and occupied, traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples, known as Vancouver, British Columbia. She studied at Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts receiving a BFA (hons) in dance. She has had the pleasure of interpreting the work of dance artists including Justine A. Chambers, Ziyian Kwan (Dumb Instrument Dance), Sasha Kleinplatz (Wants&Needs Danse), Rob Kitsos, Vanessa Goodman (Action at a Distance) and Judith Garay (Dancers Dancing) in festivals and platforms such as Vancouver International Dance Festival, Dancing on the Edge Festival, Re-FUSE presented by the Vancouver Art Gallery and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival 2020. Erika's work has taken the form of performance for stage, installation, experimental film, site specific/responsive performance, scenography and projection design. Most recently she has been experimenting with live-stream video and digital spaces as sites for intimacy and choreography of attention. Her work and collaborative projects have been presented locally and internationally by PAUL Studios Berlin, Powell Street Festival, Toronto Love-In's PS:We are All Here series, Surrey Art Gallery's InFlux, Kinetic Studio's Open Studio Series, Shooting Gallery Performance Series, Upintheair Theatre's rEvolver Festival and La Serre's OFFTA festival of live art. She has been supported by organizations including New Works, SummerWorks, VIVO Media Arts, plastic orchid factory, Dance West Network, Boca De Lupo, Theatre Replacement and Company 605 in the creation and development of her works to date. Locally she engages with two diverse collaborative groups: Mardon + Mitsuhashi and Erika Mitsuhashi & Francesca Frewer.    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.

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    © 2024 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   Links: https://justineachambers.com/ https://www.katefranklin.ca/ About Justine: 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.” She emerges from the Black American Diaspora, bi-racial and a dual citizen. Her practice extends from this continuum, and its entanglements with western contemporary dance and visual art practices. Her recent choreographic projects include: Zephyrs, Heirloom, And then this also, 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: Libby Leshgold Gallery at ECUAD, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery at Concordia, Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Sophiensaele (Berlin), Burrard Arts Foundation, 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, was 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), one of three choreographer's in the Yulanda Faris Choreographer's Program (2017-2018), and 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.  Visual artist Mike Bourscheid: Idealverein 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) Chambers, Sadira Rodrigues and battery opera's Su Feh Lee co-facilitate 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: Kate Franklin, 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 at The School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, 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.   About Kate:   Kate Franklin was born in North Bay, Ontario. She started dancing at age 5 and got super serious about it at age 10. When she was 13, she left home to attend Quinte Ballet School of Canada in Belleville, Ontario, where she undertook her professional training for the next five years. Now an independent contemporary dance artist, she has spent the past 20 or so years in Toronto/Tkaronto and so-called Vancouver (on the unceded Indigenous territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations) wearing almost every "hat" a person can wear in the community, (performer, choreographer, administrator, volunteer, producer, presenter, educator, outside eye, probably a couple other things). She works regularly for local artists Company 605, Justine A. Chambers and Tara Cheyenne Performance, amongst others, as well as being in her eighth season as Associate Artistic Director of four-year post-secondary contemporary dance program Modus Operandi, where she has the responsibility and privilege of teaching a small, dedicated, passionate group of younger dance artists.  Kate has taught Yoga and Pilates mat work in the past.    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.

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    © 2023 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   Links:   Kate Franklin: https://www.katefranklin.ca/   Modus Operandi https://modusoperandi.dance/    MADLAB School of Fitness: https://madlab.ca/   About Kate:   Kate Franklin was born in North Bay, Ontario. She started dancing at age 5 and got super serious about it at age 10. When she was 13, she left home to attend Quinte Ballet School of Canada in Belleville, Ontario, where she undertook her professional training for the next five years. Now an independent contemporary dance artist, she has spent the past 20 or so years in Toronto/Tkaronto and so-called Vancouver (on the unceded Indigenous territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations) wearing almost every "hat" a person can wear in the community, (performer, choreographer, administrator, volunteer, producer, presenter, educator, outside eye, probably a couple other things). She works regularly for local artists Company 605, Justine A. Chambers and Tara Cheyenne Performance, amongst others, as well as being in her eighth season as Associate Artistic Director of four-year post-secondary contemporary dance program Modus Operandi, where she has the responsibility and privilege of teaching a small, dedicated, passionate group of younger dance artists.  Kate has taught Yoga and Pilates mat work in the past. She has been a member of Madlab School of Fitness for the past six years.    About Caron:   As an athlete Caron was dissatisfied with the current state of women's health and representation in the fitness industry.  Many training programs treat male and female athletes the same despite the big underlying difference - hormones.  Taking matters into her own hands, Caron has dedicated herself to learning all she can about women's health and fitness so she can support women at all stages of life - teens, menstruating, peri and postmenopausal and pregnant and postpartum - all which require different nutritional support and training stimulus.  Caron is an associate coach at Madlab School of Fitness in Vancouver. 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.

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    © 2022 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   Links: https://www.emmalenafredriksson.com/ https://www.taracheyenne.com/ecdysis-by-emmalena About Emmalena: Emmalena Fredriksson is a contemporary dance artist living and working in Vancouver, Canada, as a guest on the ancestral unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples.  Her practice is defined by choreography as a relational practice in the expanded fields of dance, often collaborating with artists of other disciplines, creating choreographic experiences and dance for social events, film, galleries and performance.  Born in Sweden, she received her training at Balettakademien in Umeå and at SEAD in Austria. Emmalena has presented choreographic work, performed and taught internationally with Daghdha Dance Company (IE), Canaldanse (FR), Malta University (MT), Pact Zollverein (DE), and Falmouth University (UK) among others. Based in Vancouver since 2013 her work has been presented in Dancing on the Edge, The Dance Centre's Discover Dance Series, Dance in Vancouver's Choreography Walk (curated by Justine A. Chambers), Dance Days (Victoria) and at the Audain Gallery. Commissioned by the National Film Board, she co-created Tidal Traces - a VR 360 dance film together with Nancy Lee in 2017. The film has to date had over 35 international screenings.  Emmalena holds an MFA degree from Simon Fraser University and she regularly teaches at Modus Operandi, Training Society of Vancouver, Harbour Dance Centre and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. 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.

Flight of the Conchords' Bret McKenzie talks about his foray into sincere songwriting with his first solo album, Songs Without Jokes. Choreographers Laurie Young and Justine A. Chambers discuss their new dance piece, One Hundred More, which reflects on the ways the human body is used as a weapon for resistance by racialized people around the world. Turning Red director Domee Shi talks about drawing inspiration from her childhood in Toronto to create the first Pixar film set in Canada

Flight of the Conchords' Bret McKenzie talks about his foray into sincere songwriting with his first solo album, Songs Without Jokes. Choreographers Laurie Young and Justine A. Chambers discuss their new dance piece, One Hundred More, which reflects on the ways the human body is used as a weapon for resistance by racialized people around the world. Turning Red director Domee Shi talks about drawing inspiration from her childhood in Toronto to create the first Pixar film set in Canada

In this episode of The Dance Centre Podcast, Claire is joined by returning guest Justine A. Chambers and Berlin based Canadian dance artist and choreographer Laurie Young who together, discuss the beginnings of their careers, the challenges they've faced as women of colour and as mothers, and their first collaboration, One hundred more, coming to Scotiabank Dance Centre October 13 and 14, 2022.   https://thedancecentre.ca/event/justine-a-chambers-laurie-young/

This episode of Below the Radar is a special live event recording from “A Conversation About Urban Choreography,” presented in-person at SFU's Vancouver campus on November 9, 2021. Taking gesture as a point of entry, Justine A. Chambers and Alana Gerecke extend their collaborative exploration of the everyday choreographies that are built into an urban experience. Combining artistic and academic research, they index the various bodily orientations cultivated by the built and social structures that shape everyday spaces. By tracking an archive of everyday gestures that are prompted by various components of built and social space, they insist on the lasting and vital information contained within those specific organizations of moving bodies. They emphasize the significance of embodied knowledge—even, or especially, as it lives in invisibilized daily gestures. In this discussion, Chambers and Gerecke are joined by architect Annabel Vaughan. Together, the panelists explore the accumulation of living archival gestures generated by the interactions between moving bodies and built space, an evolving assembly of lost gestures. This public conversation was presented with the aim of sharing evolving research by inviting those present to engage in a consideration of the embodied details of urban circulation. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/169-urban-choreography.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/169-urban-choreography.html Resources: — Alana Gerecke's website: https://agerecke.wixsite.com/alanagerecke — Justine A. Chambers's website: https://justineachambers.com/ — About Annabel Vaughan: https://www.eraarch.ca/person/annabel-vaughan/ — Everyday Choreographies (2016) event recording: https://soundcloud.com/sfu_voce/everyday-choreographies-alana-gerecke-and-justine-chambers?in=sfu_voce/sets/public-event-recordings Cite this episode: Chicago Style Chambers, Justine A. and Gerecke, Alana. “A Conversation About Urban Choreography — with Alana Gerecke, Justine A. Chambers & Annabel Vaughan” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, April 19, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/169-urban-choreography.html.

In the third episode of The Dance Centre Podcast, Claire French talks to Justine A Chambers about her work, the Vancouver dance community, the importance of spaces for dance, and the installation she and Natalie Purschwitz recently created for our lobby.   Learn more: https://thedancecentre.ca/20th-anniversary/

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   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   Links:    Justine A Chambers: https://justineachambers.com/about/   Alison Denham: https://thepilatescenter.com/2019/06/tpc-grad-chats-alison-denham/   https://www.fullcirclestudio.com/teachers-trainers   https://www.distilledpilates.com/our-people   Zahra Shahab: https://zahrashahab.ca/   Company 605: http://company605.ca/   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/   Second interview with Justine A Chambers July 18th 2020 (Episode 19):  https://taracheyenne.podbean.com/e/episode-20-new-encore-interview-with-justine-a-chambers-dance-artistthinkeractivator/   About Justine:  Justine A. Chambers is a choreographer, dancer and educator living and working on the traditional and ancestral Coast Salish territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, 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.  

Show notes below: Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Productionwww.taracheyenne.comInstagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne PerformancePodcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Musicwww.marcstewartmusic.com  © 2021 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: http://company605.ca/ Collaborator: Cindy Mochizuki https://www.cindymochizuki.com/ Company 605 Sharing Series Artists: Jessica Wilkiehttps://www.facebook.com/jessica.wilkie.733 Zahra Shahab https://zahrashahab.ca/ Josh Martinhttp://company605.ca/artists/ Collaborators: Kate Franklinhttp://www.katefranklin.ca/ Avery Smithhttps://www.facebook.com/avery.smith.3192/photos Links: Align Methodhttps://www.alignmethod.ca/ Academie Duellohttps://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.

Show notes below: Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Productionwww.taracheyenne.comInstagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne PerformancePodcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Musicwww.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 Canadahttps://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.comKate Holden:http://kateholden.ca/Dance_Artist.htmlCompany 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-boivinValerie Calam:http://www.companyviceversa.com/Gold Saucer Studio:http://remysiu.com/gold-saucer-studio-ongoingTara’s training, collaborators and mentors:Royal Winnipeg Ballet:https://www.rwb.org/school/Simon Fraser University:https://www.sfu.ca/sca/programs/dance.htmlUniversity of Calgary:https://www.ucalgary.ca/future-students/undergraduate/explore-programs/dramaGreen Thumb Theatre:https://www.greenthumb.bc.ca/Radix Theatre:http://www.radixtheatre.org/Denise Clarke:https://www.oyr.org/the-company/the-ensemble/denise-clarkeNigel 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=8N9PL3Iz3xcBrooklyn Nine-Nine:https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/70281562?source=35RuPaul’s Drag Race:https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/70187741?source=35Crip Camp:https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81001496Animal Crossing:https://animal-crossing.com/Hannah Gadsby:https://hannahgadsby.com.au/https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81054700Patton Oswalt:https://pattonoswalt.com/https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81206879The Office:https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/70136120?source=35Tara’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-orchestraAbout:Kate FranklinAward-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 Huttoninstagram is @sarah_huttonSarah 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 MeyersDriven 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.

Justine A. Chambers and Laurie Young see choreography in everything. Both are deeply interested in the daily movements that make up the choreographies of our lives, and in capacity to use dance as a political tool. As two dance artists, mothers, and women of colour, the two came together across continents to co-create “One hundred more,” a dance performance portraying the gestures of resistance. Through structured improvisation and moving together, the piece explores the politics of movement and the many ways of embodying the refusal to submit. In this episode, Justine and Laurie are in conversation with Am Johal about their shared work, the radical centering of care and wellness in their collaborations, as well as the social choreographies and relational choreographies that can be found in the everyday. About “One hundred more” by Justine A. Chambers and Laurie Young: https://justineachambers.com/2020/01/06/one-hundred-more/ Video documentation of “One hundred more”: https://www.tanzforumberlin.de/en/production/one-hundred-more/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V6nVkA9QIE Watch the video recording of this interview: https://youtu.be/COVdHCst7CU

Show notes below: Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Productionwww.taracheyenne.comInstagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne PerformancePodcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewartwww.marcstewartmusic.com  © 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts/iTunes Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386 Show Notes and links: 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 moreVisual artist Natalie Purschwitz and sound artist Anju Singh: Co-facilitation of Trackings and Trappings – Summer Institute at Plug In Institute of Contemporary ArtSound artist Elisa Ferrari: EMF Movement Studies. Dance Artist Alexa Solveig Mardon and scholar Peter Dickinson: Our Present Dance HistoriesVisual artist Evann Siebens:  Homemade Again.Dance artist Claudia Fancello: Light Was The Night: Night Shifting.Musician Ben Brown:  We’re Making a BandVisual 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 The workouts mentioned by Justine:doyogawithme.com Seven Minute Work Out:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6etLKswjq8&t=9s -   One Hundred More JUSTINE A. CHAMBERS + LAURIE YOUNGhttps://agoradanse.com/en/event/one-hundred-more/ Article on “crisis schooling” mentioned by Tara: https://www.heatheranneworld.com/post/homeschooling-is-not-the-same-as-crisis-schooling-advice-during-coronavirus-covid-19-shut-downs Link to Justine’s Family Dinner: https://justineachambers.com/family-dinner-the-lexicon/   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 

Show notes below: Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Productionwww.taracheyenne.comInstagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne PerformancePodcast produced, edited and music scored by Marc Stewartwww.marcstewartmusic.com  © 2019 Tara Cheyenne Performance Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts/iTunes Donate to keep this podcast ad-free go to: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386 Links: http://www.katefranklin.ca/Toronto Dance Theatre https://tdt.org/Short film mentioned in interview http://www.allisonbeda.com/cinedance/allaboutyouModus 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  

Afrofuturism by Kemi Craig Featuring Charles Campbell, Ann-Bernice Thomas, Justine A. Chambers, and Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Michelle Jacques.This podcast is proudly supported by the BC Arts Council & CFUV 101.9fm