Episode 60 Interview with Vanessa Goodman (Performer, Choreographer and Artistic Director)

About this episode

Tara Cheyenne interviews Vanessa Goodman, exploring her work as a performer and choreographer.

Show notes below: Talking Shit With Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production www.taracheyenne.com Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP / FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music: marc@marcstewartmusic.com © 2025 Tara Cheyenne Performance Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386 Links: www.actionatadistance.ca Dancing On The Edge Festival 2025: https://www.dancingontheedge.org/ Company 605: https://company605.ca/ Morrow: https://oddmeridian.ca/morrow.html About Vanessa: Vanessa Goodman acknowledges that she lives, works, and creates on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University and is the artistic director of Action at a Distance Dance Society. She is drawn to art that carries meaning beyond aesthetics, using choreography as a means to explore liminal…

People in this episode

Host: Tara Cheyenne

Guest: Vanessa Goodman

Topics covered

• dance
• choreography
• performing arts
• artistic direction
• intimacy in performance

Keywords

• Vanessa Goodman
• choreography
• dance
• performing arts
• Tara Cheyenne

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Action at a Distance Dance Society, Company 605, Dancing On The Edge Festival, Tara Cheyenne Performance

Places: Coast Salish, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm

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