Tania Coke: Legend of Corporeal Mime

The marriage between lunacy and logic is our theme in this episode with Tania Coke, a corporeal mime teacher and performer now based in Osaka. I’d love to give a shout out to Tania’s manager when she was a self proclaimed geeky management consultant, who let her work part time for several years while she studied corporeal mime.

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In this episode you’ll hear:

Tania’s childhood in Northern Ireland during “The troubles” and going to boarding school at the age of seven where she learnt how to be to survive there.
Dreaming up things: being seaweed, recreating her grandfather’s movies
Coming to Japan to set up a corporeal mime studio and found the Magic Flying Carpet Factory
Tania’s quest to be a role model for shared leadership.

About Tania

Tania is artistic director of tarinainanika, a physical theatre company she runs together with Kentaro Suyama, from their base in Osaka, the Flying Carpet Factory. The company specialises in Corporeal Mime, an artform centered on the creativity and physical expression of the actor. As well as the company they run a full time school where they are busy nurturing the next generation of actor-creators. Originally from the UK, Tania began her career as a management consultant working in London and Paris. She is also a qualified mediator and writes articles about communication and conflict management. She is the Japan Ambassador for the RSA (Royal Society of Arts) and a board member of the RSA Japan Fellows’ Network.

Connect with Tania

Links

Watch our shows at the Edinburgh Fringe:

Tokyo Fugue

The Same Boat

Join the Flying Carpet Ride for access to online classes, talks and performance recordings:

patreon.com/tarinainanika

Find out more about the RSA: