Episode 21 - Interview with Ziyian Kwan - Dance Artist

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: Ziyian Kwan has worked as a Vancouver based dance artist since 1988. As an interprète, she has performed close to 100 original creations by an eclectic range of choreographers on international stages, and is recipient of the Isadora Award for excellence in performance. Ziyian is Artistic Director of Dumb Instrument Dance, with which her work has been performed across Canada, receiving commissions and invitations from a generous community of presenting colleagues. Her work abstracts lived experience to create collages of surreal imagery, spoken forms and kinetic narrative. Over three decades, Ziyian’s artistry has been indelibly touched by collaboration with luminaries in the fields of dance, music, film, theatre, literature and visual art.   http://dumbinstrumentdance.com/   Artists currently displaying and selling their work at Morrow: Dance Artists Shion Skye Carter Erika Mitsuhashi Sarah Wong Alexa Mardon Francesca Frewer Hayley Gawthrop Jess Wilkie Sarah Doucet (Twitch Designs) Caitlin Griffin Julia Carr Oksana Augustine Serge Bennethan Dena Davida   Sound and Interdisc Artists: Roxanne Nesbitt Peggy Lee Jo Passed Anny Lin   Writers: Lydia Kwa Peter Dickinson   Visual Artists: Jackson Chien Ed Hunt Ilze Bebris Sauha Lee   Other Creatives: Stephanie Ameyaw (Nhiyara Gems) Jessica Wadsworth Erin Carter   Vines Festival Artists: Ida Manuel (Tiny House Warriors) Valeen Jules Jazz Whitford Serisa Fitz-James   http://dumbinstrumentdance.com/category/morrow/ 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.