Tanya Marquardt
Performer & Creator
tanya_marquardt@yahoo.ca
www.chrysalistheatre.blogspot.com

Performance
Dance
Memento -  Creator / Performer - Chrysalis Theatre
City: Skinned (Vancouver) - Dancer - Sirens Crossing
Genie (solo) - Creator / Performer - VIDF 2006
Girt - Dancer - Judith Marcuse
Genie (solo) - Creator / Performer - Theatre Replacement
The Lady or the Tiger (solo)- Dancer - Daelik
Untitled - Dancer - Andrea Gunnlaugson
Vital Fluid - Rehearsal Director - Peter Bingham
Momento (solo) - Creator / Dancer - MainDance
Touch & Go:
A series of precarious events - Creator / Dancer - MainDance
Crowd - Dancer - Daelik
Hands(solo) - Creator / Dancer - Dance Informal 2000
Speculations -  Creator / Dancer - Simon Fraser University

Theatre (Selected)
Lounge - Singer - Chrysalis Theatre
Salome - Tigelinus - Leaky Heaven Circus
Ziggurat - Aegithus - Leaky Heaven Circus
Experiment#1: The Abandoned Body - The Cadaver - radix theatre
Half-A-Tank - Clown / Performer - radix theatre
Nocturne - George (Lead) - Chrysalis Theatre
SexMachine - Creator / Performer - radix theatre
‘The Swedish Plays’ - Performer - radix theatre
My Private Estria - Traveler - Boca del Lupo

Education / Training
Mitsvah Technique - Amelia Itcush 2006
Voice / Improv Dance - Lin Snelling 2006
Ashtanga Yoga - Susan Elliott 2005 – Present
Devising Dance & Theatre - Carolyn Deby 2005 – 2006
MainDance Dance Certificate 2005
Contact Dance - Steve Paxton 2006
Ashtanga - Susan Elliott 2005 - Present
Limon Technique - Mark Boivin 2005
Way Out West (Mascall Dance) - Lee Su Feh
Susan Elliot, Linda Putnam 2005
Trapeze - Ruby Rowatt 2005
Modern / Improv - Nigel Charnock 2005
Source Work - Linda Putnam 2005
Grotesque Clown / Skinner Release - Andrew Olewine 2005
Ballet - Andrea Gunnlaughson 2005
Modern - Kenny Pearl 2005
Graeme / Modern - David Presso 2004 - 05
Contact Improvisation - Nancy Stark Smith 2004
Gyrokinesis - Kathleen McDonough 2004 - 05
Creation through Performance - James Long
Maiko Bae Yamamoto 2004
BMC / Improv Dance - KJ Holmes 2004
Skinner Release Technique - Erin Trudel 2004
Improv Dance - Chris Aiken 2004
EDAM Spring Intensive - Peter Bingham Helen Walkley Lin Snelling 2004
Physical Comedy - Gina Bastone 2003
Corporals / Zebra Work - David MacMurray Smith 2003
Biokinetics - David MacMurray Smith 2003
Grotesque & The Clown - Steven Hill 2003
Source & Performance - David MacMurray Smith 2003
Trance / Performance - Linda Putnam 2002
Clowning - Steven Hill 2001 – Present
Performance - Linda Putnam 2001
Clowning - David MacMurray Smith 2001
Wushu / Pilates / Yoga - Lee Su Fee 2000 – Present
Voice / Corporals - Boca del Lupo 2001
Ensemble / Trapèze - Boca del Lupo 2001 - 02
Performance - Jillian Keiley 2000
Modern Dance - Barbara Bourget 2000 – Present
Improv Dance - Susan Elliott/ Daelik 2000 – Present
National Voice Intensive - Various 2000
BFA – Theatre DD Kugler, Penelope Stella, Mark Diamond 1999

Other (Selected)
Apprentice / Witness 2005
Holy Body Tattoo - Momentum

Workshop Coordinator
Linda Putnam Workshop
MASCALL Dance / radix theatre 2002 – Present
Boca del Lupo board member 2000 – 2002

Photo courtesay of Peter Eastwood

Critic Praise
“…a passionate performance… Tanya Marquardt manages to weave a tale of desire, risk, and conquest…”
-The Peak

“…Marquardt has the most amazing, lanky physical presence…she’s vaguely hypnotic”
- Alan Hindle, Terminal City

“a rare visual experience that leaves its audience breathless” – NOW Magazine Edmonton

"Tanya Marquardt. Remember that name. She's going to be a star." - Jo Ledingham, The Vancouver Courier

Awards
2006- VIDEO IN Residency for Genie
2005- Jessie Award for Community Development: Ziggurat / The Leaky Heaven Circus
2004- VIDEO IN Residency for Liminal
2003- Jesse Award for Best Ensemble: King Llyr / The Leaky Heaven Circus
2003- Canada Council Travel Grant
2001- Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts – Simon Fraser University
2000- Simon Fraser Bursary

 

References upon request