Episode 42 - Interview With Lee Su-Feh (Performance Maker, Educator, Writer)

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: Lee Su-Feh website: https://www.leesufeh.space/ The Fitzmaurice Institute: https://www.fitzmauriceinstitute.org/fitzmaurice-voicework The Nap Ministry: https://www.instagram.com/thenapministry/?hl=en Toni Cade Bambara: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/bambara-toni-cade-1939-1995/   About Lee Su-Feh (she/they)   Lee Su-Feh is a performance maker, educator and writer who has spent the last 40 years exploring the human body as a site of intersecting habits and histories. Born and raised in Malaysia, her early training began with a mix of traditional and contemporary South-East Asian dance and theatre, during which she was deeply influenced by teachers and mentors,  Janet Pillai, Marion D’Cruz and Krishen Jit. The learning environments of Temple of Fine Arts and Kompleks Budaya Negara also left a deep impression.   Since then, her explorations in movement and performance have taken her to Europe and North America where she has been influenced by teachers such as Lari Leong, Peter Bingham, Linda Putnam, and Catherine Fitzmaurice; and by artistic encounters and collaborations with David McIntosh, Benoît Lachambre, Zab Maboungou, among others. Alongside this trajectory in performance-making, she has pursued a lifelong study and practice of Chinese martial arts, Qigong and Daoism. She has studied Yang Taiji, Wu Taiji, Chen Taiji, Baguazhang and Xingyiquan with Xu Gong Wei; and Baguazhang with Yang Guo Tai.  Since 2010, she has been a student of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and is currently a certified Lead Trainer of the work. She is a member of the Advisory Group of the Fitzmaurice Institute and participates actively in the international community of Fitzmaurice Voicework teachers.    Based on Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-waututh Territories, colonially known as Vancouver, Canada, she is Artistic Director of battery opera performing arts society and teaches voice and movement.    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.