Meet The Artist - Tania Camara
About Tania
Tania Camara is a solo performance artist based in Manchester currently working in different mediums: devised theatre, dance, live art, video, voice-work and music.
Tania’s artistic focus is to create work that generates conversations about race relations in Britain to tell untold stories and bring marginalised lived experiences to the forefront.
Tania brings together stories from Cape Verde, Britain, Portugal, Guinea Bissau, and is inspired by her MA in Artist Research at the University of Amsterdam into the traditional dance/music genre Batuku as social performance and its place in the Cape Verdean Revolution as a form of holistic healing.
Facebook: @TaniaCamara.Performance.Artist
Instagram: @Taniacamara20T
Twitter: @Taniacamara2T
Web: taniacamara.com
About Tania's Work
As part of Developed With Lowry, Tania will be developing an autobiographical performance work, AS I AM NATURALLY. It consists of a selection of poems and stories that challenge notions of inner beauty, femininity and gender fluidity.
About AS I AM NATURALLY
Can I touch your hair? An innocent caress? Or the moment I realised I was black? A newcomer to a white country, a sudden object of curiosity + intrusion. A Lowry theatre commission unravelling the complex layers of human interaction, unpicking the threads weaving together race + identity. The audience is guided by projection-mapped visuals + an immersive soundscape of community voices on a journey through their own memories to examine internalised intergenerational trauma.
Creator, Producer and Performer Tania Camara
Director Peader Kirk
Musician John Haycock
Musician/Performer Chisara Agor
Music Mentor Ellen Beth Abdi
Part of SPILL Festival of Performance 2021, A Divergency seed commission
“I’m excited to work with The Lowry on this project, because I want to push my boundaries and play with different ways of making work that is touching and has a transformational effect on those that interact with it.” – Tania Camara