Tenaya Rocks! A Sexy Geological Cabaret

Tenaya Hurst, an East Bay native, creates and stars in Tenaya Rocks!  A Sexy Geological Cabaret.  This innovative one hour show will educate the audience about geology and entertain them by comparing important geological principles to sex and relationships.  Yes, only a Geo-AnthropActress would dare to combine science and theatre in this way!  Ms. Hurst is a Phi Beta Kappa and has a B.A. from Indiana University in Theatre, Geology, and Anthropology.  These three fields have influenced her four cabarets, and this rock cabaret is Tenaya’s favorite! Plate Tectonics is the most important theory in geology, and Tenaya and her cabaret boys demonstrate a memorable model of different plate boundaries.  The boys and Tenaya also embody California and her faults in a parody personification scene and song.  Volcanoes, mountain belts, sediments, and earthquakes.  How can these be sexy?  Tenaya explains geologic happenings by comparing them to the human processes we experience every day in our relationships. Tenaya has experience in mineralogy, structural geology, and field geology, and attended the Judson Mead field school in Montana.  

She has mapped areas of New England, southern Indiana, Missouri and the California Sierras while in school at IU.  Tenaya’s favorite rock is granite, and her favorite mineral is jadeite.