Episode 7 - Criticism - Art Police - Interview with Dance Artist Zahra Shahab

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   Show Notes:   Criticism is a part of what we do as artists. How do we create frameworks for making it work for us instead of tearing us down? In this episode I’m taking a close look at managing how we receive criticism and how we can protect our delicate artist underbellies.    Are you ready for this episode’s Art Police assignment to get you thinking and feeling differently?    Interview with creator and performer Zahra Shahab. We talk scheduling and decolonizing your mind.   Links: https://www.shahabibi.com/about http://www.newworks.ca/2019/06/zahra-shahab/   Books mentioned by Zahra: The Queer Art Of Failure https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-queer-art-of-failure Pleasure Activism https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html   Tara’s good friend and mentor:  Denise Clarke https://www.oyr.org/the-company/the-ensemble/denise-clarke   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. © 2019 Tara Cheyenne Performance