Tara’s solo work with director Sophie Yendole and composer Marc Stewart has taken her across Canada and to Brussels where she was in residence for 3 weeks creating her acclaimed solo Lift for the Danse En Vol Festival (at Brussels’s Theatre L’L and Montreal’s Studio 303). Her solo work (“a little too far”, Frame, The Beckoning, Go Anyway, Lift) has been presented at Dancing on the Edge, Dances for a Small Stage, The Edgy Women Festival in Montreal, The Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival, The Romp Festival in Victoria, CBC Television, and The Chutzpah Festival, where she has premiered all of her most acclaimed works. This season Tara is very excited to be making a new piece as Artist in Residence for Ruby Slippers Theatre. Tara’s work has been described as “gutsy”, “vividly expressive”, “comic and thoughtful”.

Originally from Calgary, Tara studied theatre at the University of Calgary before coming to Vancouver to obtain a degree in dance from Simon Fraser University. For the past decade she has performed for many of Vancouver’s most exciting and accomplished choreographers/directors including Conrad Alexandrowicz, Joe Laughlin, Deborah Dunn and GreenThumb Theatre among others. Tara also spent 2 years in Chile studying AshtangaYoga and collaborating with local artists. She is regularly commissioned to choreograph for theatre given her interdisciplinary bent.

• Denise Clarke
  Commission choreographer and outside eye.
  Denise is associate artist with One Yellow Rabbit, and is a choreographer, performer and teacher. Her work engages both theatre and dance in a strong system of applied technique giving the performer a wider availability for verbal or non-verbal expression. Clarke develops her themes most boldly with the OYR ensemble but also works with various Opera, Dance and Theatres companies throughout Canada and abroad. Her approach combines physical practice, onstage experience and fundamental skills in a powerful dynamic that actors, dancers and theatre practitioners alike can use to expand their personal vocabularies for the theatre. Clarke is also a noted performer and has created many roles with One Yellow Rabbit, highlighting her abilities as an actor, singer and dancer in the integrated style, which often defines contemporary theatre. Working from a strong narrative base which is text driven, One Yellow Rabbit avail themselves of a no - rules but highly disciplined aesthetic which Clarke has helped to develop throughout her 17 year association.