Artistic Director | tara cheyenne friedenberg

Tara has been creating and performing signature works since graduating from SFU. She is recognized as the preeminent dance-theatre force and sought-after choreographer in Vancouver and beyond. Performing highlights: DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, High Performance Rodeo/Calgary.

Her solo pieces: nick and juanita, banger, goggles, porno death cult; duet and ensemble works: highgate, empty.swimming.pool and how to be. Tara has been nominated for the Jessie, Ovation and Lola awards for her theatrical choreography and is a 2014 recipient of the Chrystal Dance Prize. Tara is expanding her engaging performances in upcoming works including film and environmental venues.

General manager | hannah meyers

Hannah Meyers (directing, performing creating)— Driven by rhythms, patterns, colours and a heavy dose of romanticism. Likes to mismatch materials, modes of performance, theories, and histories. Recently, this has meant using found sound as a dialogue for a short video installation (Ordinary Orchestra, NTS Art Apart), board games as a tool to critique colonialism and capitalism (New Societies, Re:Current Theatre), poetry with exercise (The Albertine Workout, SFU), and tap dancing through adaptations of adaptations (notnothamletmachine, THEATRECORPS). A co-founder of Lo-Fi Spectacle Club; a nascent performing arts collective as idealistic as they come. A pandemic graduate (Simon Fraser University Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours in Theatre Performance). Walking and working on the stolen ancestral lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Walking and working with contradiction. Mismatching and subverting form is both a proclivity and a political assertion.

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER | ANGELICA SCHWARTZ (THEY/THEM)

Born on Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg, MB), Angelica Schwartz is an interdisciplinary artist now living on the unceded Coast Salish territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations (Vancouver, BC). Schwartz has worked nationally as a director, creative collaborator, digital dramaturg, and stage manager. Schwartz seeks to build community, re-define leadership models, and find optimism in the face of existential dread. 

They are a founding member of the emerging theatre collective happy/accidents and is the Community Engagement Manager for Neworld Theatre and Communications and Marketing Manager for Tara Cheyenne Performance. Select credits: Buddies in Bad Times, The National Arts Centre, Electric Theatre Company, The Chop Theatre, SpiderWebShow, ITSAZOO, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, and more. Schwartz is a graduate of the Directing Program at The National Theatre School of Canada and Technical Production Program at Studio 58.

In addition to Schwartz’s work as an artist, they enjoy fine coffee, facilitate a monthly book club on the Future of Arts Leadership, and strives to be a BBQ grill master on the weekends.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Rebecca Goulding – Chair

Janice Beley – Treasurer

Sandra Ferens - Director

Chloe Richardson – Director

Benedicte Schoepflin – Director