Tanja Faylene Woloshen, a Ukrainian, Canadian, of settler ancestry, and prairie upbringing, has always been attentive to space and vast perspectives. Her dance praxis has expanded from years of training in the codified forms of ballet, jazz, modern, and contemporary, to investigate the organic and instinctual forms of improvisation, and butoh. She works between dance, theatre, visual arts, collaboration, philosophy, product, & process. Tanja has graciously received numerous grants to support her work, from Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, University of British Columbia, and University of Manitoba, and has performed globally. Alongside her dance making, she maintains a steady dance education practice for all ages.
interests: dance, butoh, bodies of all kinds, devised theatre, improvisation, Bodyweather, contemporary art, site specific performance, contemplative arts, collaborative practices, yoga, ecosomatics, ecologies, land arts, costume & fashion design, sculpture, installation, collage, queerness, Indigenous practices, decolonizing practices, traditional knowledges, eastern philosophies, shamanism, shapeshifting, altered states, liminality, ma, ritual, expressive art therapies, biophilia, death & grief practices, play, lyrical writing, failure, dreams, rhizomes, funga, octopi, cats, birds, ghosts, care, & kindness
Gratitude to live and create on Treaty 1, the ancestral territories of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Dakota, Dene, and Oji-Cree Nations as well as the homeland of the Red River Métis Nation.