Episode 18 - Interview with Olivia C. Davies, Dance Artist, Choreographer and Community-Arts Facilitator

Show notes below:   Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production www.taracheyenne.com Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne Performance Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music www.marcstewartmusic.com    © 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance   Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts/iTunes and Spotify   Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386 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. https://www.oliviacdavies.ca/   Olivia’s work at Dancing on the Edge Festival 2020:   http://www.dancingontheedge.org/program/wishing-well/   Links to stuff we talked about:   Mile Zero Dance http://milezerodance.com/2017/   Rematriate Collective https://newjourneys.ca/en/articles/we-are-the-rematriate-collective   Jenen Frei Njooti https://ahva.ubc.ca/persons/jeneen-frei-njootli/   https://skwachays.com/   http://www.mauragarciadance.org/   Mariaa Randall  http://www.dubaikungkamiyalk.com.au/?page_id=25   Bill Coleman https://www.bill-coleman.com/about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTo3GwkOmWU     Pacific Association of First Nations Women https://pafnw.wordpress.com/   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.