Cusan Theatre
Tanya is the creator of Cusan Theatre,she is a skilled and multifaceted independent performing artist and storyteller with a variety of skills that range from theatre and dance to singer, puppeteer and maker to permaculture practitioner and amazing cook, this makes her work impossible to put into boxes as she has an incredible amount of skills that feed into her performing and teaching career. She was born and grew up in Colombia surrounded by great visionaries and pioneers of the arts in Cali – Colombia, her mother, Cecilia Espinosa de Cusan, a professional ballet dancer, dance pedagogue, writer and the director of La Academia de Ballet Allegro were Tanya studied and assisted her mother for many years in the dance school, her grand father Jesús María Espinosa, a painter and the founder member of La Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Bellas Artes in Cali Colombia, in 1934. Her family history is part of the global story of migration, her father was born in Prague and had Italian and Polish heritage, he left the Czech Republic to settle in South America before Tanya was born and subsequently she returned to Europe to settle in Yorkshire in the UK.
Since 1988, Tanya has worked as an independent artist, freelance actor/ dancer/puppeteer/ teacher/ choreographer, director and maker for many companies, venues and organisations all over the country and abroad such as The Northern Dance Company, Cusan Theatre, Tutti-frutti Productions, Interplay Sensory Theatre, RJC as a carnival maker, Heads Together, Northern Ballet Theatre, Stowe Opera, Lakeland Opera, Leeds Playhouse, Academia de Ballet Allegro, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Geraldine Connor, A Quiet Word, Yorkshire Dance Centre, Dance City, Dance 4, Skippko Arts Team, Adam Smith Theatre, Vincent Dance Theatre, The Art Unit Cultural Services, Women’s Health Matters, NHS Patient and Public Involvement, The Maltings Theatre, Space 2 and many many more…
For the last 24 years worked under the name of Cusan Theatre promoting and developing her creative performance work, storytelling, making and her teaching. Cusan Theatre have worked for many years with a variety of artists collaborators, organisations on many projects.
Artist's of great expertise and commitment.
For the last 24 years worked under the name of Cusan Theatre promoting and developing her creative performance work, storytelling, making and her teaching. Cusan Theatre have worked for many years with a variety of artists collaborators, organisations on many projects.
Artist's of great expertise and commitment.
Alan Pergusey - Visual artists, maker sculptor
With a variety of skills and years of experience, we have collaborated on many projects, he has made a whole range of artworks using all kinds of approaches and materials, that respond to particular sites, and perhaps, most importantly they respond to the people that he collaborates with along the way to create them. www.alanpergusey.com |
Cecilia Espinosa de Cusan and Marcela Cusan Espinosa
The director and co-director of the Academia de Ballet Allegro in Cali Colombia. An centre for dance and the arts in Cali, Colombia founded in 1980 by Cecilia Espinosa de Cusan,one of the pioneers and visionaries of the arts in Colombia and in the Valle del Cauca region. www.academiadeballetallegro.com I have worked constantly through out the years choreographing for the students of the dance school and developing programmes to introduce adults and children alike to the arts. |
Lizzie Coombes - (Betty Lawless)
A photographer who as been working freelance since 1990, with a long track record of cross art form collaboration and innovative community projects. She has been working as a photo artist, documentary and publicity photographer and a designer with a wide variety of people and organizations. |
An many more wonderful artists...
Nabarro Steel Audio(musicians- composers)
Rhian Kempadoo Millar (a creative designer )
Jack Glover (composer,musician)
Sue Miller (Composer - musician - Charanga del Norte)
Liz Lempen - Lempen Puppet Theatre
Nabarro Steel Audio(musicians- composers)
Rhian Kempadoo Millar (a creative designer )
Jack Glover (composer,musician)
Sue Miller (Composer - musician - Charanga del Norte)
Liz Lempen - Lempen Puppet Theatre