Episode 4 - Metrics of Success - Art Police - Interview with Dance Artist Miriam Colvin

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 scored by Marc Stewart www.marcstewartmusic.com    © 2019 Tara Cheyenne Performance   Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts/iTunes and Spotify   Donate to keep this podcast ad-free go to:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386   Links: Myriad Dance Projects: www.myriadprojects.ca   Show Notes: Segment 1 - Notes from the studio. My project is changing before my eyes. It’s hard to listen to myself and not get caught up in the “ideas” of what the project is supposed to be. Segment 2 - Millenials corner. From a young Vancouver artist, Ileanna Cheladyn, who wrote to me that she fuels her ideas by surrounding herself with people she loves and that love her. Beautiful! Also a great quote from writer performer Jan Derbyshire: “you can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you”. Who are you surrounding yourself with? Segment 3 - Art Police What are your metrics for success? Are you comparing yourself to your real peers? Or art stars who come from money and/or loads of crazy luck? Your assignment, to collect yourself  Segment 4 - Inerview with dance artist Miriam Colvin http://www.myriadprojects.ca/   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.