Artistic Director | tara cheyenne friedenberg

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg works among the boxes labelled; actor, dancer, director, writer, choreographer, drag artist, educator, and is the Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance. Tara has created over a dozen full-length performance works, choreographed for experimental and large scale theatre companies, collaborated with international artists, made a show on a river with badass femme-creators and mothers, she ticked the MFA box last year, likes to hang out with her very cool teenager, and is currently squatting 140lbs.

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.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sandra Ferens – Chair

Janice Beley – Treasurer

Alan Dominguez - Director

Heather Hodson – Director