Tara Cheyenne Performance is devoted to the creation and dissemination of highly physical, character-driven performance that uniquely blends movement and text, dance and theatre. The company’s vision is to create works that speak to people on levels of common human experience, our own comic-tragic behavior, and our lives in movement.

Tara is a Vancouver based performer, creator, dance-theatre educator, choreographer, and the Artistic Director of DanStaBat Performance Society (doing business as Tara Cheyenne Performance). Tara started dancing at age 3, attended ballet school, theatre school at the University of Calgary and attained a dance degree from Simon Fraser University. Tara has danced with some of Vancouver and Canada’s most exciting choreographers and worked as an actor in theatre and film. In 2000 Tara began developing her own dance-theatre creations with director Sophie Yendole and composer/husband Marc Stewart. Her solo creations (bANGER-The Power Hour, Nick & Juanita-Livin’ in my Dreams – both awarded People’s Choice at the Dancing on the Edge Festival) have been presented across Canada, in the US, Belgium and London, UK. Tara has been nominated for several Jessie Richardson Awards and an Ovation Award for her choreography in theatre.