Body Parts
Tara Cheyenne Performance
Project Description
An interdisciplinary project exploring and challenging how we feel about, process, and live in our bodies. A rich and irreverent examination of our complicated relationships with body image. Part stand-up comedy, part kinetic gesture and dance. A show about the show that never actually starts….or does it? Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg leads us through a heartbreaking personal landscape of body dysmorphia, disordered eating, self loathing with biting comedy, insightful and absurd social commentary, and transformation through the power of the body and direct address commentary.
Company Profile
“Stand-up comedy meets dance”. TCP creates kinetic theatrical expressions through exquisitely realized characters, crafted choreography, unapologetic use of comedy, and lashings of tragedy. Our work exists between, within, and outside the “discipline” of dance. Our use of text and unapologetic comedy open doors to people not familiar with contemporary dance. All our work is based on the wonderful human experience.
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Choreographer and Key Collaborators
choreographed by Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
creative team: Justine A Chambers, Josh Martin, Caroline Liffmann, Zahra Shahab, Jamie Robinson, Melanie Yeats, Kate Franklin, Lisa Gelley. ‘
Music: Marc Stewart
Lights: James Proudfoot,
Videographer: David Cooper,
Video Editor: Cande Andrade
Outreach Activities
Workshop Talking & Dancing-our relationships to our bodies: This workshop runs online synchronous over two 2-hour sessions and is intended for female-identifying and non-binary people. The workshop will explore embodied movement from a sensory foundation and investigate ideas through improvised text/talking. The workshop will culminate in a collaborative creation. This creation will be shared, by the participants interested in doing so, as part of the subsequent performance. Open to professional, pre-professional, artists and anyone currently inhabiting a body. All abilities. Participants are encouraged to have snacks and water handy. *with the reality of online fatigue in mind this workshop will lean into working away from the screen at times, and/or with audio participation at other times to allow participants to truly be in their bodies. *This workshop can also be delivered once a week, in the evening, for one hour, over 4 weeks. Circle Discussion: A small group of local female-identifying and non-binary people are invited to gather online and/or physically distanced to talk, listen, share our experiences around body image. This discussion is an opportunity to witness and reflect our lived experiences common and unique. Participants are encouraged to have snacks and water handy. Ideally, this discussion would take place directly before the performance broadcast.
Advance Prep for Live Performance
Outreach to female-identifying and non-binary folks, also people interested in dance, theatre and comedy.
Past and
Upcoming performances
Past: This work has been presented in its pre-covid form at Dancing on the Edge, Magnetic North and Off Dance in Vancouver.
Upcoming: Confirmed virtual tours and community engagement with Kelowna and Smithers.
Media Credits
photos: Body Parts by Tara Cheyenne Performance; photo by Wendy D
Project Details
Type of Work
Comedy, Dance, experimental theatre.
Performance Type
This work is built for online presentation through Zoom and Vimeo. The live version is designed for the theatre or similar space. Formal theatre setting is not essential.
This work is adaptable to small spaces, galleries, outdoors (weather permitting) etc.
This is a full-length work
Audience Type
Mature audience 13+ (swearing and a middle aged woman in underwear). Target audience (but not exclusive) is female-identifying/non-binary folks.
Length in minutes:
55 minutes not including re-show circle discussion and post-show Q&A
# of Performers on Tour
1 performer
# of Support Staff on Tour
2 technicians (Lights, Sound)
Fee range:
$2500-4000 Although we are keen to adapt to each communities needs and capacity.
Available to tour:
Our virtual tour begins Feb. 2021. The online version is available throughout 2021/22
Other performance information:
Click here for Body Parts project timeline and description.
Technical Requirements
Online performance requires stable internet connection. Live performance requires a clear space (theatre, hall, gymnasium) two ladders or similar, sound playback, and optional theatrical lighting if available.
Technical Residency
No. However a community workshop residency is ideal for audience building and to be included in the performance.
Artist Name
Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
Location
Coast Salish territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations
Contact Person
Alen Dominquez
Email
admin@taracheyenne.com
Website + Social Media
https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance https://www.instagram.com/taracheyennetcp/