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:
www.nantam.ca
www.wakeofvultures.com
Upcoming Shows:
Yellow Objects Firehall Arts Centre until May 29th
http://firehallartscentre.ca/onstage/yellow-objects-exhibition/
Autumn Strawberry (Surrey Art Gallery)
https://www.surrey.ca/arts-culture/surrey-art-gallery/exhibitions/cindy-mochizuki-autumn-strawberry
K BODY AND MIND (Open Ears Festival)
https://openears.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-Program.pdf
In Development:
Walking at Night by Myself (2021 Summer-Fall)
Double Happiness: Detour This Way (2021-2022)
Roost (on-going)
…wreckage upon wreckage… (2022 winter)
About Nancy:
Sound artist, 譚亦斯 (Nancy Tam), is originally from Hong Kong. She and her family settled in the suburbs of Markham, Ontario on the traditional territories of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe peoples in the mid 90s. After some time, she moved to the Haldimand Tract—land that was granted to the Haudenosaunee of the Six Nations of the Grand River for music school in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. In 2011, she moved to the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations—Vancouver. She is very grateful to be part of loving and welcoming communities throughout her journey in art and in life, and this journey has afforded her many unique opportunities. She is a founding member of the Vancouver-based performance collective A Wake of Vultures, the Toronto-based Toy Piano Composers collective, and has toured with her work throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. She is an award-winning composer. Nancy’s work centres around the philosophy that sound is distant touch.
She continues to explore ways to elicit embodied and emotional responses using sound and performance as her primary media. Using multi-channel audio, and musical composition her current research triangulates between sound, space, and body to investigate tendencies of global and local mobilizations of creatures, objects, and events. Her work is form-bending and dramaturgically rigorous, often bringing the background to the forefront in creating immersive scenographic environments. Nancy has a penchant for listening to quiet sounds.
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.
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