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July 27, 2020

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Meet Chantal Cherry | Choreographer, Performer & Dance Film Maker

Thus far, the highlight of my career has been performing Our Bodies At Night nationally and internationally. More specifically, the opportunity to perform my choreography in South Africa, my home country, was really emotional for me...Unfortunately I have many associations with shame around my sexual identity and South Africa. This piece is vulnerable, it’s autobiographical, it’s queer AF, and explores erotic intimacy between two women. Performing this piece was a deliberate overcoming of that shame and owning my queerness loudly and proudly and somewhat nakedly.
April 7, 2020

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Interview with Filmmaker Chantal Cherry (TAKE ME THERE)

The feeling of adventure and excitement I felt following the tracks influenced the playfulness present in the piece. The train tracks provide a clear sense of past, present, and future – a venturing from something and into the unknown. What are the characters moving away from and what are they searching for?
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Photograph by Alex Tafreshi
January 22, 2019

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​VOYAGE LA | Meet Chantal Cherry​​

When people asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up, I said I didn’t know. The question that always followed was: well what do you love doing? Dancing. But that’s not a real career. I was told this so many times over that I was fluent in saying it to myself even when others weren’t saying it to me. It’s easy to combat other people, it’s more difficult to stand up to myself.
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Photograph by Niveda Tennety
April 25, 2018

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MFA students’ choreography conveys empathy through math, vegetables​.

“We were thinking about separation as a way to show desire rather than separation as a way of being apart,” Cherry said. 

Through the dance, Cherry tries to break apart the idea of heteronormativity in relationships and the idea women only have platonic relationships with other women. However, though Cherry said she wants the audience to understand the intimate relationship between two women, she hopes they can also come away with a broader idea of intimacy.