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.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sandra Ferens – Chair

Janice Beley – Treasurer

Alan Dominguez - Director

Heather Hodson – Director