Friend of LEIMAY
Tanja Woloshen
  • Winnipeg, Manitoba
  • Canada
Share on Facebook MySpace
  • Articles
  • Events
  • Photos
  • Photo Albums
 

Tanja Woloshen's Page

Profile Information

Individual or Collective?
Invididual
About: Please tell us about your self. Some of our programs have benefits for art workers - please tell us if you are an artist and mention the most recent work/venue/space/residency where you have worked/developed your practice.
Tanja Woloshen is a dance artist, movement specialist, teacher, and cosmic heart snuggler. Her practice investigates butoh dance as queer embodiment, shapeshifting, and dimensions of recognition. Recent projects include performance collaborations with One Trunk Theatre ("Hamlet as Told on the Streets") for Winnipeg's and Saskatoon's Fringe Festivals, Coral Maloney (“Red Socket Spine”) for Young Lungs Dance Exchange, Inner Fish Performance Co.: "The House at the End of the Road" for Edmonton's Canoefest produced by Workshop West, plus a Soundcan Project European tour also with Inner Fish, and "Dancing with the Doctor" (aceartinc. for Sarah Anne Johnson). Her recent creations include "Encounters Of A Man Kind" (Young Lungs Dance Exchange), “Room for the Underdog” (Alternator Gallery), "gesturing between utopia" (Borders and Border Crossings Conference, and Young Lungs Dance Exchange), "Traces" (Kelowna Art Gallery instillation), "lady rhizome" (fina gallery), "Doctrine of Signatures: i. Bloodroot" (Young Lungs Dance Exchange), and "Roar, tiger of the heart and tear me open." (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Festival: Hysteria). She has also performed in works by Melissa Monteros, Wojtek Mochniej, Cornelius Fischer-Credo, Michele Moss, Helen Walkley, Holly Bright, Chick Snipper, Radix Theatre, Hawaii's Iona Contemporary Dance Theatre, Kokoro, Andrew Milne, and Alexandra Elliott. She assistant directed for Tom Stroud, his adaptation of "A Doll's House" for The Winnipeg Fringe Festival; and for The Master Playwright: Churchill Festival, she was assistant director to Hope McIntyre for "Fen"; and to Virginie Magnat for "Dream Migrations" (UBCO). She graduated with Honours from the University of Winnipeg, and has her MFA in Performance Studies from UBC-Okanagan. She was also a sessional instructor at both Universities, teaching Advanced Movement for Actors, The Body In Performance: Eastern Traditions, and Introduction to Performance: Improvisation. She has received many grants for her dance research from Manitoba and Winnipeg Arts Councils, and UBC-Okanagan.
Background:
Art Lover, Dance Lover, Dancer, Actor, Installation Artist, Performance Artist, Choreographer, Director
Members are searchable by category. Please pick your relationship with LEIMAY. And Please note that the LEIMAY Collaborator category is only for those who have worked with LEIMAYon a specific project.
LEIMAY Friend

Comment Wall (1 comment)

You need to be a member of conectom to add comments!

Join conectom

At 4:05pm on November 13, 2013,
Team MemberTheresa Magario tm said…

Hello there Tanja. Welcome to conectom.
We're happy to have you!
Here's what you can do on this site: Post some images of your work! Connect with other performers! Open/continue discussions in the forums! Browse our e-zine publication section!

I hope my exclamation points inspire enthusiasm,
-tm

 
 
 

© 2024   Created by LEIMAY.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service