Event, Talk | Dance Dialogue
Tasha Faye Evans
Choreography and Coast Salish Art and Design
Join us for Dance Dialogues – a three-part series of talks where artists and scholars delve into the ideas, practices, and provocations that shape contemporary dance and art-making. Engage with thought-provoking perspectives in an open space for critical inquiry and nuanced reflection.
Tasha Faye Evans’ work initiates a choreographic study of Coast Salish art and design with master carvers and cultural mentors. Through dialogue and demonstration, Tasha introduces her dance making methodology of landing and presencing based on the fundamental shapes and cultural teachings of the Salish eye. In this intimate gathering, witness ancestral shapes and storytelling translated in the body and carved into space, connecting us to these lands, culture, and all our relations.
2025-2026 season
October 15 #1 Justine A. Chambers and Ryan Tacata: Patterning
December 3 #2 Ileanna Sophia Cheladyn: Field-Work: a slow dance
April 8 #3 Tasha Faye Evans: Choreography and Coast Salish Art and Design
Tasha Faye Evans is a dancer, theatre artist, creative consultant, cultural programmer, and educator from Coast Salish, Welsh and European Jewish grandparents. Her work is an integration of dance, theatre and culture rooted in the sacred responsibility to care for the future of all of our relations. Her current projects include Cedar Woman, a dance honouring a legacy of Coast Salish women spanning all the way back to a tree, and In the Presence of Ancestors, a life -long exhibition of five Coast Salish House posts being carved and raised in Port Moody. With decades of creation and production, Tasha has participated in performances and festivals nationally and internationally.
Photos: Erik Zennstrom, courtesy of the artist