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AUTHOR, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR France Hervé EXECUTIVE PRODUCER (NZ) Jenny Stevenson FORM 1 - 3 week development Research April 2019 Director, Choreography, Soundscape, Video: France Hervé Choreographic Assistant: Merenia Gray Lighting Design: Lisa Maule Design & Costumes consultant: Dorita Hannah Assistants on stage: Elekis Poblete, Stephen Bain Costumes maker: Elizabeth Whiting Dancers: Daniel Cooper, Eddie Elliot, Bianca Hyslop, Sean McDonald, Kilda Northcott, Paige Shand, Bert Van Dijk Original music soundtrack including: John Kenny specialist/player of Celtic ancestral instrument, the Carnyx Quatuor Bagad Merlinerion Vannes: Aymerick Bevan, Ewen Couriaut, Youenn Couriaut, Pierre Thébault Waiata: Tiahuia Gray Karakia : Moko Smith Auckland Performing Arts Centre/ Tapac Technical team With the support of Creative New Zealand, Auckland City Council, Wellesley Dance Studios Photographer: Jinki Cambronero Captation: Ed Davis Research & pre-production: Frédéric Prévost FORM 2 - Short Film 9 days Shooting July 2018 Author, Artistic Director : France Hervé Cinematographer: Ed Davis Assistant Director (Film score & Production) : Frédéric Prévost English Script Supervisor: Kenneth Spiteri Music Composer: Bill Direen & the Bilders Additional Music: John Kenny (Voice of the Carnyx), Quatuor Bagad Melinerion Vannes Waiata: Aroha Yates Smith Traditional Tattoo Artist: Mokonuirangi Smith Line Manager, Design Assist, Children Casting: Tessa Mitchell CAST: Kilda Northcott (Mother), Kenneth Spiteri (Joe), Jeremy Randerson (Dalman), Kristian Larsen (Owen), Tessa Mitchell (Patricia), Bert Van Dijk (Ray), Sian Holmes (Ys) Cameo: Mokonuirangi Smith, Aroha Yates Smith, Heather Lee, Arran Reardon, Rufus Holmes, Antonio Mahugo, Thomas Marsh, Haylay May, Solomon Randerson, Ed Davis, John and Patricia Campbell Form 3 - Development Research to be hold in October- November 2019 SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATORS Geoffroy Lamarche (NIWA) HOLOGRAM Ya-Ling Huang CONSULTANTS Luc Chopplet (Fine arts), Stéphane Deligeorges (Culture & Sciences) Jean-Yves Hervé (Interactive visualization), Didier Wolff - Happy Design Studio (Airplane) Steven Lloyd (Architecture) |
France Hervé, Dorita Hannah, Lisa Maule, Frédéric Prévost, Merenia Gray, Steven Lloyd
Ed Davis, Bill Direen, Ya-Ling Huang, Moko Smith, Jenny Stevenson, Octopus
Kilda Northcott, Kristian Larsen, Jeremy Randerson, Kenneth Spiteri, Tessa Mitchell, Bert van Dijk,
Bianca Hyslop, Sean MacDonald, Eddie Elliott, Daniel Cooper, Paige Shand, John Kenny
Ed Davis, Bill Direen, Ya-Ling Huang, Moko Smith, Jenny Stevenson, Octopus
Kilda Northcott, Kristian Larsen, Jeremy Randerson, Kenneth Spiteri, Tessa Mitchell, Bert van Dijk,
Bianca Hyslop, Sean MacDonald, Eddie Elliott, Daniel Cooper, Paige Shand, John Kenny
CREATION
AUTHOR - ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
FRANCE HERVÉ
Director, choreographer, performer, author and visual artist, France Hervé has always been interested in the interaction of disciplines. Trained in Paris (classical dance, contemporary, jazz, Barata Natyam) and at the London Contemporary Dance Theater, she pursued studies in Art History and Scenography at Sorbonne, evening classes at Beaux-Arts de Paris. She worked as a dancer notably for Anne Dreyfus, Philippe Decouflé, Redha Benteifour, Patrick Dupont, Stéphane Loras, Boris Jacta, Kamel Ouali, Oma-belles Embardées, Agnes Butet, Raewyn Hill-Dancenorth Australia.
Simultaneously after theatrical training (Studio 7, Tapa Sudana, Ariane Mnouchkine, Jordan Beswick, Roy Hart-Pantheatre), she works as an actress along classical repertoire, contemporary and self-devised works, for Alain Mollot, Jean-Claude Rousseau, Anna Marbrook, Christian Penny, Alain Marcel, Jean Lacornerie, Pierrick Sorin, Elie Chouraqui, Doriane Moretus, Julie Ferrier, Elizabeth Czerczuk, Red Leap Theater, Anne Sultan.
She is experienced in wide range of genre: musical theater, operas, street theater, concerts, in-situ performance, radio, cinema and television. Assistant on large scale projects (Fura del Baus, Winter olympic games), she has been the choreographer of giant musical group Urban Sax throughout the world, directing on ground floor and aerial suspensions.
In New Zealand, from 1996 to 2003, France co-directed with Stephen Bain, Under Lili's Balcony Theatre company, writing and directing original creations distinguished at NZ theatre Awards, including the first English adaptation of "The Exchange" by Paul Claudel. She directed the film Hades'Window (Festival des Antipodes - St Tropez, Wift festival) with Ed Davis with who she collaborated on « Don’t » best video at the Kodak Music Clip Awards.
Stimulated by research and especially by cinematographic processes for their adaptation to the stage, she obtained several writing residences. In 2009, invited by director Paula Clermont Péan, she works in Haiti with 18 actors on the creation of "Zannimo Latè » in collaboration with puppeteer Alexandra Melis and composer Lucien Johnson (NZ). She is currently choreographer for director Vincent Dussart, Cie de l’Arcade on the new creation " Je ne marcherai plus dans les traces de tes pas" by contemporary author Alexandra Badea, winner of Avignon selection, ATP.
Outside of the traditional scenic context, France has often collaborated on performative projects with visual artists, art galleries and museums. In 2014, she obtained a grant to pursue intensive studies in Fine Arts at the School of Art Terre & Feu-Paris, graduated with distinction. She has been directing creative workshops in universities, dance and theatre schools, Visual and Fine arts schools (Tutor at Via Ferrata -National Fine Arts School Paris), as well as art therapy institutions.
Seeing also herself as an ad lib learner, she is resolutely interested in creative hybrid fields when disciplines and techniques combine, answer to each other and reinvent their outline.
francehervefhk.blogspot.fr
franceherveinterpretation.blogspot.com
franceherveplasticienne.blogspot.fr
ASSISTANT - CHOREOGRAPHY Form 1
MERENIA GRAY
Ngai Tahu, Tainui and Rangitaane (A.R.A.D A.I.S.T.D)
Merenia Gray is a professional choreographer, dancer, teacher and development manager. Upon graduation from the New Zealand School of Dance in 1989 her experience extends beyond New Zealand having performed and staged works in Hong Kong, Spain, France, Denmark and the United States.
Merenia performed for Taiao Dance Theatre, Footnote Dance Company, Auckland Dance Company and Artgenossen in Munich and Upper Cut Danse Teatre in Copenhagen.
Her choreographic works of note are Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance, Māui–One Man against the Gods, The Montana World of Wearable Arts, and Entangled for the Royal New Zealand Ballet and numerous works for Footnote Dance Company and her own company, Merenia Gray Dance Theater, (MGDT).
Merenia has taught dance in education in primary and secondary schools through out NZ. She works with kaupapa Maori to educate children through dance.
Over the years, Merenia has received many awards including: the Inaugural CNZ Tup Lang Scholarship for choreography in 2002, the Dorothy Daniels Dance Foundation Award in 2000, the Best New Work Award for The Wellington Fringe Festival in 1998, a CNZ grant to study choreographic theatre with Enrique Pardot in Paris 1995, the USIS scholarship to participate in the International Choreographers Program at the American Dance Festival in Duke University in 1992 and a Rotary Exchange Scholarship to Toronto in 1986.
She was the co –director and curator of Kōwhiti, a Wellington based Indigenous Contemporary Dance Festival and she established Raising the Barre – freelance dance classes for professional dancers held at The Royal New Zealand Ballet Studios in Wellington.
Her most recent roles have been as Development and Marketing manager for the New Zealand Dance Company, Sponsorship manager for Tempo Dance Festival and she is on the Board of Directors for DANZ Aotearoa. She is teaching ballet and contemporary dance in Auckland at TAPAC and the Parnell Jubilee Hall.
LIGHTING DESIGNER
LISA MAULE
Ko Waipahihi te awa,
Ko Rauika te moana,
Ko Tauiwi te iwi,
Nō Whanganui-a-Tara ahau.
B A, B Des, M.P.M
Lisa Maule is an experienced and award winning theatre designer who has contributed to the New Zealand performing arts scene over the past 25 years. Her most recent project was at Circa Theatre in Wellington doing the set and lighting design for the musical theatre review of Steven Sondheim's work ‘Side By Side’.
In addition to her performance design practice Lisa works in project management and coordination across education, performing arts and events. Lisa taught on the technical and management qualifications at Toi Whakaari: the New Zealand Drama School between 2008 and 2017 and in 2018 was a teaching fellow at Victoria University of Wellington teaching scenography.
Lisa’s has just graduated with a Masters in Public Management with the final research called “Bringing Relationship In: Mātauranga Māori in Project Work” focusing on collaboration within the Māori theatre company Te Rākau Hua o Te Wao Tapu.
Throughout 2019 Lisa is running Design Lab - Wgtn, a monthly meet up for theatre and event designers.
For more information:
https://www.lisamaule.info/
LISA MAULE
Ko Waipahihi te awa,
Ko Rauika te moana,
Ko Tauiwi te iwi,
Nō Whanganui-a-Tara ahau.
B A, B Des, M.P.M
Lisa Maule is an experienced and award winning theatre designer who has contributed to the New Zealand performing arts scene over the past 25 years. Her most recent project was at Circa Theatre in Wellington doing the set and lighting design for the musical theatre review of Steven Sondheim's work ‘Side By Side’.
In addition to her performance design practice Lisa works in project management and coordination across education, performing arts and events. Lisa taught on the technical and management qualifications at Toi Whakaari: the New Zealand Drama School between 2008 and 2017 and in 2018 was a teaching fellow at Victoria University of Wellington teaching scenography.
Lisa’s has just graduated with a Masters in Public Management with the final research called “Bringing Relationship In: Mātauranga Māori in Project Work” focusing on collaboration within the Māori theatre company Te Rākau Hua o Te Wao Tapu.
Throughout 2019 Lisa is running Design Lab - Wgtn, a monthly meet up for theatre and event designers.
For more information:
https://www.lisamaule.info/
CONSULTANT SET & COSTUMES DESIGN
DORITA HANNAH
Dorita Hannah is an independent artist and designer-academic who collaborates with performers, artists and communities to co-conceive, curate and create events, installations, exhibits, objects and cultural environments - particularly architecture for the visual and performing arts.
Having taught architecture and design for over 25 years, she has developed and established new academic programs, including Interior Design, Spatial Design & Performance Design (the first of its kind), while leading a number of international initiatives, most recently as Research Curator for World Stage Design (WSD 2013), Theory Curator for the Prague Quadrennial (PQ 2015) and co-curator for FLUID STATES (PSi 2015).
While her design work has gained NZIA and DINZ awards as well as a UNESCO Laureate (1999) and World Stage Design medals (2009), she also publishes on practices that negotiate between art, architecture and performance, including co-editing an anthology on Performance Design and the themed issue on Performance/Architecture for the JAE (Journal of Architectural Education). Through current roles as chair of of PSi's Performance Design Working Group (Performance Studies International) and IFTR's Architecture Working Group (International Federation of Theatre Research) she is committed to fostering global networks and extending fields and modes of research.
Current research focuses on urban scenographies, peripheral spaces and practices, inter/intra-cultural encounters in public space and socially engaged design.
Specialties: Performance Design/Theatre Architecture/Exhibition and Installation Design/Event Theory/ Public Space/Curating Design/Events.
Information on her creative work and scholarship in Theatre Architecture, Performance Design and Dance- Architecture Events can be found on line:
www.doritahannah.com
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (film script + forms 1, 2, 3)
FRÉDÉRIC PRÉVOST
Actor - Scenographer - Author
Holder of a masters degree in law and completing post-graduate studies in corporate communication, Frédéric Prévost had been working in the field of media - channel T.V. La Cinq - for a number of years before devoting himself to theatre, taking acting courses at theatre schools in Paris: Studio 7 directed by Jean-Claude Rousseau (Strasberg, Grotowski, Meyerhold, Stanislavski training methods), Acting International with Robert Cordier (acting on camera) and Lesley Chatterley (Elizabethan theater). Jack Waltzer Acting Worskshop ( Actor Studio). He has worked on the plays of dramaturg Martin Crimp with stage director Marc Paquien (théâtre Gérard Philippe, Saint-Denis).
As an actor, he has worked on stage classics and contemporary characters such as Serenade directed by Kasimir Skorupsky, Hedâyat by Behi Djanati Ataï, Partage de midi by Paul Claudel, Waiting for Godot , Les Misérables directed by France Hervé, The Itinerant theater Chopalovitch, Painting on Wood, Trou de mémoire for Les Héritiers, theatre company.
Reader and actor on national radio shows Une vie oeuvre et Des vivants et des dieux, he worked regularly with the french broadcasting channel France Culture. Recently, he voiced the play Adagio maladie, by Anne Sultan, broadcast by the channel Creation on air. Frédéric is now on tour with this play along with the actor France Hervé. He also collaborates in several in situ performances of the choreographic theatre company Under Lili’s Balcony.
He has created, staged and played in The songs of a night walker, an operatic work freely inspired by Nietzsche Zarathoustra, with the mezzo-soprano Cécile Tavernier and as scenographer for the Compagnie du Manège with whom he created several plays, such as Radiograph, Point de vue, L'autre et l'autre, Entr'.
On screen, he plays in Mousso, a film by Cheik N’Diaye and in La saison des radis, directed by Jean- Christophe Thomas.
Frédéric is the author of a novel entitled Physionomies de la cruauté and the co-writer of the book La minitel stratégie, published by First.
http://www.annesultan.fr
FRÉDÉRIC PRÉVOST
Actor - Scenographer - Author
Holder of a masters degree in law and completing post-graduate studies in corporate communication, Frédéric Prévost had been working in the field of media - channel T.V. La Cinq - for a number of years before devoting himself to theatre, taking acting courses at theatre schools in Paris: Studio 7 directed by Jean-Claude Rousseau (Strasberg, Grotowski, Meyerhold, Stanislavski training methods), Acting International with Robert Cordier (acting on camera) and Lesley Chatterley (Elizabethan theater). Jack Waltzer Acting Worskshop ( Actor Studio). He has worked on the plays of dramaturg Martin Crimp with stage director Marc Paquien (théâtre Gérard Philippe, Saint-Denis).
As an actor, he has worked on stage classics and contemporary characters such as Serenade directed by Kasimir Skorupsky, Hedâyat by Behi Djanati Ataï, Partage de midi by Paul Claudel, Waiting for Godot , Les Misérables directed by France Hervé, The Itinerant theater Chopalovitch, Painting on Wood, Trou de mémoire for Les Héritiers, theatre company.
Reader and actor on national radio shows Une vie oeuvre et Des vivants et des dieux, he worked regularly with the french broadcasting channel France Culture. Recently, he voiced the play Adagio maladie, by Anne Sultan, broadcast by the channel Creation on air. Frédéric is now on tour with this play along with the actor France Hervé. He also collaborates in several in situ performances of the choreographic theatre company Under Lili’s Balcony.
He has created, staged and played in The songs of a night walker, an operatic work freely inspired by Nietzsche Zarathoustra, with the mezzo-soprano Cécile Tavernier and as scenographer for the Compagnie du Manège with whom he created several plays, such as Radiograph, Point de vue, L'autre et l'autre, Entr'.
On screen, he plays in Mousso, a film by Cheik N’Diaye and in La saison des radis, directed by Jean- Christophe Thomas.
Frédéric is the author of a novel entitled Physionomies de la cruauté and the co-writer of the book La minitel stratégie, published by First.
http://www.annesultan.fr
MUSIC COMPOSER ( FILM)
WILLIAM DIREEN
Has lived in Christchurch (till 1986), Wellington (1986-1994), Berlin (1994-97) Paris (1998-2013). Lives in Dunedin (2013 to present).
William Direen known as Bill Direen is a legend of New Zealand music who has explored the genres of pop, folk, rock and cabaret. He is a chameleon, a creative spirit who has released more than twenty LPs and CDs while remaining active in poetry, creative writing and theatre. Beatin Hearts (1982, Flying Nun), an early album of Bill’s, was important to the success of the fledgling Flying Nun Label. Thirty-five years on, this album is still critically acclaimed as demonstrated by the 2016 vinyl reissue by Brooklyn label Grapefruit. In 2017 Bill’s creative life was portrayed in the wonderful documentary A Memory of Others (dir. Simon Ogston) that screened in the International Film Festival throughout New Zealand.
Bill Direen is an independent writer, poet and performer. His writing ranges from auto-fiction to science fiction. He edits the magazine Percutio and manages music group The Bilders, a New Zealand music group who produced a string of self-recorded 7-inch vinyl releases between 1980 and 1982 leading to Beatin Hearts, the first studio-album from fledgling New Zealand independent record label 'Flying Nun Records'. Also known as Builders, Die Bilder (German, for "Pictures") or Bilderbergers, their alternative band names reflect a playfulness that predates the internet and its requirement for specificity of brand.
They have been recently brought out of obscurity by labels Unwucht (Germany) Grapefruit (USA), Siltbreeze (USA) and SmartGuy (USA). Bilder's latest releases are the vinyl release of the LP Beatin Hearts, the 7 inch EP Measly (Grapefruit, USA), 'Cell Songs' (on a vinyl compilation by SmartGuy Records), a vinyl release (2017) of the finished master of cult album Chrysanthemum Storm (Zelle Records), and a vinyl reissue of the 1994 album Cut (May, 2018). A double album of music from the Simon Ogston documentary is nearing completion.
Bilders' material is known for 'rough' music making (often live in the studio), and a lo-fi recording style that has produced "many genuine classic compositions ».
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/94366287/bill-direen-feeding-the-spirit-of-the-people
https://www.nziff.co.nz/2017/masterton/galleries/bill-direen-a-memory-of-others-world-premiere/
http://dynamitehemorrhage.bigcartel.com/product/dynamite-hemorrhage-2
FORM 1 (Choreographic Opening)
JOHN KENNY
Living in Edinburgh, John Kenny is an internationally acclaimed multi-faceted performer. As a trombonist his interests include contemporary solo repertoire, modern jazz and early music. He also works as an actor and is active as a composer, having received commissions from the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and in 1989 was Strathclyde Composer in Residence to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
After studying with Harold Nash at the Royal Academy of Music, John Kenny worked as an actor/musician with the Bubble Theatre in London in 1981 then made his debut as soloist in the Purcell Room in 1982. In 1983 he was a prize winner at the Gaudeamus International Competition in Holland, and has since given recitals and broadcasts worldwide, both as a soloist and with ensembles including Ensemble Moderne of Frankfurt and Ensemble Alternance of Paris. In 1993 he became the first person in modern times to play the Carnyx, Scotland's 2,000 year old Celtic Boar-headed horn. He now performs and lectures regularly with the instrument.
In 1984 he was a founder member of the TNT music theatre, collaborating with playwright Paul Stebbings to produce shows which have toured over a hundred venues in the UK, Scandinavia, Germany, Russia and Japan. He is a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, lecturer at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, and in 1993 was elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
FILM
CINEMATOGRAPHER/ SPECIAL EFFECTS/ EDITING/ MASTERING
ED DAVIS
Ed Davis is an indie 2D & VR filmmaker based in Wellington. - Steadicam operator since the 90s, writer, director, video producer, cameraman, animator, post-production, special effects, graphics designer, multimedia artist, music video maker, tv commercial maker, short film maker, writer, collaborator.
Owner and sole trader of his company Underbelly (NZ), Ed Davis has been working extensively on a wide variation of formats and genres. Winner Best Multimedia Wellington Fringe 1998, Best Director Kodak Music Clip Awards, 2003, 5,7 and SPADA finalist 2005, First Stereo 3D Music Clip 2009. He has lately been collaborating with NZSD & Toi Whakaari on several ONE TAKE films exploring dance, physical theatre and realtime cinematic gaze.
Ed Davis has a new 3D/VR180 short film on www.amazevr.com "The Door" which drags the viewer inside the story, mixes objectivity/subjectivity like in dreams.
"Not since the Lumiere brothers drove a train at a stampeding audience has a film thrust it's viewers into this level of immersive displacement. Finally, we have taken a second step into a brave, new cinema" Miles Buckingham - WFS Film Handler
“Surreal. Like sitting in the cockpit of someone else’s head.” Rhian Sheehan - Screen composer
“I was in a world where every sense I thought I could control was lost to me... This film by Ed Davis is powerful new form of cinema that breaks all the boundaries and puts the viewer dead centre in the story that unfolds in their head.” Will Moore - Film Maker.
"Bloody brilliant! Takes you on a trippy immersive journey into the belly of a dark and strange beast" Sam Buys - Weta Digital
http://www.fhkproductions.com/gallery.html
CINEMATOGRAPHER/ SPECIAL EFFECTS/ EDITING/ MASTERING
ED DAVIS
Ed Davis is an indie 2D & VR filmmaker based in Wellington. - Steadicam operator since the 90s, writer, director, video producer, cameraman, animator, post-production, special effects, graphics designer, multimedia artist, music video maker, tv commercial maker, short film maker, writer, collaborator.
Owner and sole trader of his company Underbelly (NZ), Ed Davis has been working extensively on a wide variation of formats and genres. Winner Best Multimedia Wellington Fringe 1998, Best Director Kodak Music Clip Awards, 2003, 5,7 and SPADA finalist 2005, First Stereo 3D Music Clip 2009. He has lately been collaborating with NZSD & Toi Whakaari on several ONE TAKE films exploring dance, physical theatre and realtime cinematic gaze.
Ed Davis has a new 3D/VR180 short film on www.amazevr.com "The Door" which drags the viewer inside the story, mixes objectivity/subjectivity like in dreams.
"Not since the Lumiere brothers drove a train at a stampeding audience has a film thrust it's viewers into this level of immersive displacement. Finally, we have taken a second step into a brave, new cinema" Miles Buckingham - WFS Film Handler
“Surreal. Like sitting in the cockpit of someone else’s head.” Rhian Sheehan - Screen composer
“I was in a world where every sense I thought I could control was lost to me... This film by Ed Davis is powerful new form of cinema that breaks all the boundaries and puts the viewer dead centre in the story that unfolds in their head.” Will Moore - Film Maker.
"Bloody brilliant! Takes you on a trippy immersive journey into the belly of a dark and strange beast" Sam Buys - Weta Digital
http://www.fhkproductions.com/gallery.html
TRADITIONAL MAORI TATTOO
MOKO SMITH
Mokonui-a-rangi Smith, or Moko for short, indeed meaning tattoo in Maori. Moko is of Maori descent, hailing from Te Arawa, Tainui, Takitimu and Horouta waka, along with his European heritage. Training under his two teachers Croc Coulter and Inia Taylor, along with many who have guided him along the way, he works to keep furthering the art form to flourish and to be handed down to future generations. Designs are created based on a discussion with the client as to their motives and interests with regards to their tattoo. His works by hand with the traditional Maori and Polynesian hand tools known as Uhi. The work made with the tools draws on traditional and contemporary aesthetics, ancestral values and modern hygiene.
http://www.mokoink.com
https://www.instagram.com/moko.ink
https://www.moko-smith.com/read-me/
CAST
KILDA NORTHCOTT (Mother)
Kilda Northcott is one of New Zealand's most accomplished contemporary dancers. She was a founding member of the Limbs Dance Company and Douglas Wright Dance Company. In 2008, she was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to dance.
« She dances like Mona Lisa smiles, says Douglas Wright: calm, inscrutable, seeing nothing, seeing everything. Others call her "a national treasure". Starting with Limbs in the 1970s, Kilda Northcott's career has spanned the growth of contemporary dance in New Zealand. »
Born in Whakatane, raised in Kawerau, in the Bay of Plenty, Kilda trained in classical ballet at the Royal Academy of Dancing. Full time training in modern and jazz dance with Basil Pattison (resident choreographer at The Mercury Theatre, Auckland ), in classical ballet, classical repertoire & performance with Russell Kerr, at the NZ Dance Centre - Auckland and at community theatre, directed by Warwick Broadhead. On graduation at 18, Northcott ventured to Sydney to study with Margaret Chapple, and then on to New York learning the techniques of two of the major American contemporary dance figures - Merce Cunningham and José Limón - at their studios. She studied yoga at the Bondi Junction, Yoga Centre with Martin Jackson and Shandor Remete.
In the late 70s, Kilda returned from overseas, inspired to establish a distinctive New Zealand dance scene. Limbs Dance Company directed by Chris Jannides was formed, with Northcott a foundation member. Working and touring internationally, her repertoire (dance, theatre and film) includes multiple collaborations and performances with: Douglas Wright, Michael Parmenter, Mary Jane O’Reilly, Sue Jordon, Lyne Pringle, Jacqui Carroll, Helen Herbertson, John Salisbury, Carl Morrow, Kai Tai Chan, Heidi Simmonds, director Alana Spraggs, directors Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, Red Mole -directors Sally Rodwell and Alan Brunton, director-performer Madeline McNamara, film maker Alyx Duncan (“ Pandora”), Daniel Belton’s (film' Seismos ‘, ' Athletes of the Imagination ‘), Viki Kapo, Barbara Carey, Damien Bertanees, Malia Johnstone, Emma Willis...
Acclaimed performer and choreographer, Kilda Northcott is a tutor and senior tutor of contemporary dance and yoga: Dance Theatre Arts – School of Ballet, St. Claire, Wellington Performing Arts Centre (directed by Jenny Stevenson), director and tutor of “The Kilda Northcott Youth Dance Company “.
Taking up academic study at Victoria University, Wellington, she moved to Dunedin as artist in residence, at Otago University, for further academic study. She is continuing tutoring dance in Dunedin at Shona Bennet's School of Ballet & Jazz and working in the mental health and home support roles.
http://www.noted.co.nz/archive/listener-nz-2006/the-muse/
KENNETH SPITERI (Joe)
actor - dramaturg - soundmaker
Born in Melbourne to Maltese parents, Kenneth has worked in film, theatre and music internationally. Trained at L'Ecole Internationale Jacques Lecoq and with Pantheatre in Paris, he has completed dramaturgical studies with the WIW Akademie, Berlin.
In Australia he has worked as an actor with state funded theatre companies in Canberra as well as the Melbourne Theatre Company and most recently with the Sydney Theatre Company on Garcia Lorca's, Blood Wedding. Further credits include A Streetcar named Datsun 120Y by Mary Rachel Brown for Downstairs Belvoir and Pan for the Capitol Theatre. As part of the international season of Downstage Theatre in Wellington he performed in The Exchange by Paul Claudel for Under Lili's Balcony. In Germany stage credits include Purcell's opera King Arthur for Lautten Compagney as well as working with legendary theatre director Peter Zadek in the productions Nackt by Pirandello at the St Pauli Theater in Hamburg and Major Barbara by Shaw at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. Between 2011 and 2015 he was a company member of the internationally acclaimed mask company Familie Floz on their production Garage d'Or.
In flm he has acted in the features Beneath Hill 60 (Australia), Abschuss Fahrt (Rat Pack Productions, Germany) and most recently Paul, Apostle of Christ (Sony, Affrm Productions) shot in Malta, to be released this coming Easter.
He has collaborated extensively on new dramatic works and in Canberra was a co-founder of Elbow Theatre with Iain Sinclair as well as being the recipient of two residencies at the Australian Choreographic Centre where he developed new works with Ross McGregor and with France Hervé with whom he created performance-art works in Paris.
Over the last years Kenneth has worked as a dramaturge with choreographers such as Australian contemporary dance pioneer Elizabeth Dalman, Sapling to Silver as well as Hyoung-Min Kim and Thomas Zeuggin in Berlin, Everything Else, and The Story of Those Who Left, in Seoul, Korea.
In 2015 he was awarded funding from the Arts Council of Malta to create a new work entitled The Hate Politik, a physical theatre piece he co-created and performed in. Then in 2016 the Arts Council of Malta supported his residency at the welove gallery in Taiwan to create a sound-art work, A Sound Map of Tainan. Simultaneously, he released an album of singer/songerwriter music called, Sleepfalling. The following year he was awarded a residency in Italy where in association with the gallery Kunst Boden Nah he created and exhibited the sound installation 'soundscape:chiusa'.
He has given workshops and lectures to actors and dancers for Canberra Youth Theatre, Accademia dell'Arte Italy/Berlin, as well as international arts universities Taipei National University of the Arts and the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.
Currently in Malta, he has been working as a movement director with the national theatre company Teatru Malta, and is currently playing the lead role in the Teatru Manoel production of The Crucible.
JEREMY RANDERSON (Dalman)
Jeremy's career started in secondary school, with the first part of his career having a strong foundation in devised theatre and his own writing, much of it collaborations with his sister author- director Jo Randerson. He has worked in productions such as Mouth and Bleach for Trouble productions, Flying Clouds, Carry on Randerson (Comedy festival and national tour), Wish me Luck - dir Gabe McDonnell, The Furnace - dir Bevin Linkhorn, One Flew over The Cookoo's Nest - dir Andrew Foster, The Young Baron by Ben Crowder , E.O.K - dir Robert Appierdo, Peeling Back the Paint - dir John Caxton Smythe for the National tour Fringe festival.
Writer and lead role with Graham Candy in Dog Star at the NZ Comedy Festival and I Won’t be Happy Until I lose One of my Limbs, at Basement Theatre, he has been assisting the production Il Trampolino dir: Jackie van Beek & Gentiane Lupi (national tour), and played lead role in performative Installation work The Floating Theatre by Stephen Bain in various festivals.
Previous work has included in Film and Television, such as Gaylene Preston's Home By Christmas, TV series The Blue Rose by Adam Revill, John & Pogo and Tama tu - dir Taika Waititi, Futile Attraction - dir Mark Prebble, The Insiders Guide To Happiness - dir Mark Beasley, Loves Bites - dir Larry Parr and Auckland Art Gallery's 2014 screening of series of experimental film works by a team of local directors, Film Co-op. This year he will tour again with Mei-Lin Hansen’s The Mooncake and the Kumara on the NZ festival circuit.
KRISTIAN LARSEN (Owen)
New Zealand based artist Kristian Larsen is an award winning choreographer and multidisciplinary performance maker. A graduate of three of New Zealand's key dance institutions (UNITEC-PAS, The New Zealand School of Dance, and the University of Auckland), Larsen holds a Masters Degree in Creative and Performing Arts.
Larsen has worked extensively as a performer and collaborator with and for internationally renowned artists including Jerome Bel (France), Ko Nakajima (Japan), Hans Van Den Broeck (Belgium), Min Tanaka (Japan), Magpie Music Dance Company (Netherlands). Paul Pinson (Scotland),, and istheatere (Australia).
In New Zealand Larsen has worked with most of New Zealand's choreographic alumni such as Lemi Ponifasio, Claire O'Neil, Malia Johnston, Sean Curham, Val Smith, Joshua Rutter, Lisa Densem (Germany/NZ), Daniel Belton and has mentored Sarah Foster-Sproull. Choreography on dance companies have included Footnote Dance Co, and Touch Compass.
Musically Larsen has collaborated on several interdisciplinary projects with renowned composers and improvisers Phil Dadson and Gareth Farr Larsen established interdisciplinary improvisation ensemble "Shameless Crowd Pleaser' with composer musician. Drew MacMillan and initiated the highly successful 'Banger's n Mash' improvisation series and continues to produce his own work for theatre.
www.throwdisposablechoreography.blogspot.com
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TESSA MITCHELL (Patricia)
Actor - Writer- Designer- Child Acting Coach
Tessa graduated as an actor from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 1994. She has an M.A. in Spatial design from AUT in 2010 predominantly focused on performance installation. Tessa has appeared as an actor in many films, including ‘The World’s Fastest Indian’, ‘Perfect Creature’, ‘Rubbings of a Live Man’ and ‘Oracle Drive’, as well as various TV roles and numerous theatre performances, receiving the Auckland Fringe award for ‘I wanna be na nah na nah nah’, directed by Stephen Bain and co-written and performed by Tessa Mitchell along with Dave Fane. From this writing came her recent solo show ‘Girl You Want’ which has had seasons at Auckland’s Basement theatre and recently Melbourne’s La Mama theatre and BATS theatre as part of the 2018 NZ Fringe.
She has devised, co-written and performed in a number of shows including her first solo show ‘Drowning Flounder’ directed by Glynis Angell for Melbourne’s La Mama theatre, performed at Auckland’s Watershed theatre, then at Bats theatre, Wellington with director Gary Henderson.
‘I am a Dark River’ was co-written and performed with her musician partner Ben Holmes about her notorious grandfather Bob Lowry. ‘I am a Dark River’ had an Auckland Silo season and Bats Theatre season at the Wellington Fringe Festival, working with directors Briar Munro and Chris Jannides.
Other performance highlights include:
‘Sad Ape’ Collaboration with Kate Bartlett, Greg King, Mike Dwyer and Matt Sunderland, directed by Stephen Hollins. As the Angel goddess in the dance work ‘Perfect Lie’, choreographed by Sean Curham. Tessa Mitchell and Ben Holmes wrote and performed ‘The Speaking in Unison Couple’ in Christian Penny’s Cabaret ‘Club Volcanic’.
The opening of Q theatre ‘Window tennis installation’ directed by Mike Mizarahi and Marie Adams. ‘These Four Walls’ Fringe Festival (2010) and ‘Ladies’ for ‘Bathing with Elephants’ at the Civic (2012) both directed by Genevieve Maclean.
BERT VAN DIJK (Ray)
PhD Theatre, MA Planned Change, Dip Drama, Dip Mime
Dutch born and New Zealand based Bert van Dijk is a professional theatre practitioner of international repute. He is widely recognized as an innovative director, performer, acting and voice coach, who received multiple awards for his work, in New Zealand and abroad. After graduating as a Social & Clinical Psychologist from the University of Groningen, Bert decided to follow his passion for the performing arts through training in dance, theatre and physical theatre and became a member of het Gronies Teater, touring the Grotowski-based performance WACHGANG throughout the Netherlands. He was a founding member of Het Noord Nederlands Bewegings Theatre, directing and performing in their first professional production In Stijl Gevangen. In 1986 he relocated to London to complete a 2-year Corporeal Mime training with Animate theatre, pursuing vocal training with the legendary Roy Hart Theatre and becoming a member of Enrique Pardo’s Pantheatre, performing, choreographing and assisting directing productions in France, Sicily, Norway and the UK. He directed several Greek tragedies for the Drama Studio and the Van Dijk Company in London, was artistic director of Toucan Theatre and toured the UK extensively with the Janet Smith & Dancers. Since 1989 Bert began to spend more and more time in New Zealand, Australia and SE Asia, amongst others performing at the International Festival of the Arts in Life Moves (Jamie Bull Dancers) and the Holy Sinner (Inside Out Theatre), directing Horizons for Pacific Underground, Runes of the Soul, and various productions for Toi Whakaaari: NZ Drama School (Tūngoungou:Metamorphosis, Out of Space and the site-specific Wild Man production) ad the UCOL Theatre School (Greeks, Company and Salomé). Bert invited Enrique Pardo over to direct his solo performance XENOPHORIA, which he performed in NZ and NL. A performance research project, in collaboration with lighting designer extraordinaire Helen Todd, resulted in the performance The Butterfly’s Evil Spell exploring the interaction between light and performer’s presence. More recently Bert directed Ex_isle of Strangers, a site-specific performance inspired by and performed on Matiu Somes Island with large cast of actors, dancers, musicians, and taiko drummers. Bert is a regular guest tutor at drama schools and universities throughout New Zealand, Australia and South East Asia. In 2011 Bert was the first to complete a practice-based PhD in Theatre in New Zealand, developing an original intercultural model of performance making that reflects the unique geographic, cultural and spiritual dimensions of a specific site or region.
DANCERS
DANIEL COOPER
Daniel trained at The New Zealand School of Dance and graduated in 2001. After graduating he understudied and danced in Douglas Wright’s 2002 season of ‘Inland’ then went on to dance with Black Grace Dance Company. During his time with Black Grace, Daniel was honored to create two new works on the company, ‘Man’ in 2005 and in 2006 ‘Behind i’s’ was commissioned for the triple bill season, 'Black Grace and Friends'.
Since then, Daniel has had the opportunity to choreograph for television (Stars in their Eyes, Montana Sunday Theatre "Life's a Riot") and was Assistant Choreographer for the much loved World Of WearableArt show. Daniel has also had the privilege of being Rehearsal Director/Choreographic Assistant for two of New Zealand's leading contemporary dance companies, Okareka Dance Company and Atamira Dance Company. Most recently, Daniel has been on stage performing nationally and internationally with Atamira Dance Company (Hou, Kaha, Moko, Atamira), Douglas Wright Dance Company (Rapt) and Auckland Theatre Company (Billy Elliot, Under the Mountain) as well as continuing his Choreographic Assistant work on Atamira projects ‘Moko’ by Moss Patterson and ‘Mitimiti’ by Jack Gray.
In the field of education, Daniel represented the Royal New Zealand Ballet as Dance Educator, facilitating workshops in schools, masterclasses, ballet for boys and theatre events for the public as well as working with Okareka Dance Company to initiate their annual Summer School. He has enjoyed teaching professional and tertiary level classes for IndependANCE, Atamira Dance Company, Raising the Barre, Okareka Dance Company, Douglas Wright Dance Company, World Of WearableArt, Unitec Performing and Screen Arts and New Zealand School of Dance. Daniel also teaches at a pre-tertiary level at Auckland Academy of Dance, Rowe Dance, The Dance Studio and Auckland Academy of Adult Ballet.
EDDIE ELLIOTT
Eddie Elliott is of Maori descent from Tainui, New Zealand. He discovered hip-hop in Wellington and trained in contemporary dance at UNITEC. A graduate UNITEC in 2013, Eddie was nominated for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative and the 2014 “I Am Auckland Awards” which won him the Youth Active Award. In 2015, James Cook High School named an award for students in his honour, the “Eddie Elliott Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dance”.
In recent years, Eddie has also choreographed I’ll Stand Outside (2012) toured the south island and Rarotonga, and Kei konei au (2013) was performed on 10 University dance students at UNITEC for their graduation performance. After his work, “Intuition” was toured around NZ it went on to perform in Canada alongside his recent work “Behind the Canvas”. He is excited that “Intuition” has been accepted to perform at Edinburgh festival 2019.
Eddie has worked with leading dance companies in New Zealand including Black Grace, Atamira, Okareka Dance Company, Douglas Wright Dance, and the New Zealand Dance Company.
BIANCA HYSLOP
Bianca Hyslop has been working as a freelance dancer/choreographer and teacher specifically within the Maori Contemporary Dance Sector for over ten years now having been involved in highly influential dance projects including indigenous development, cultural research and cross cultural laboratories for interdisciplinary art makers. She has graced the national and international stage with the likes of Atamira Dance Company, Okareka Dance Company, Tawata Productions, Movement of the Human and The World of Wearable Arts. Her choreographic work includes choreographing on The New Zealand Dance Company, Atamira Dance Company and for Unitec's graduation season. In 2018 Bianca was also the rehearsal director and co-choreographer for I Moving Lab's 'I Land 2018' a short work program that was presented at Gibney Dance in New York City. She is currently working towards presenting her new full length dance work ‘Pōhutu’ at the Kia Mau Festival 2019. Bianca completed a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts in 2009.
SEAN MACDONALD
Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Raukawa
Sean grew up in Auckland and whakapapa’s to Waimarama, Otaki, Te Wai Pounamu and Australia.
Sean has worked as a contemporary dancer and performer for over 25 years. Having trained in both Auckland and Wellington, NZ, 1991 through 1994 he first worked with Douglas Wright, Claire O’Neill and was a founding member of Black Grace Dance Company. He has continued working with Black Grace since then touring throughout Nth America, Canada, The Netherlands, Germany, Asia, Mexico, Edinburgh, Australia and New Zealand. Sean has collaborated with and appeared in works by Ann Dewey, Lynn Pringle, Shona McCullogh, Malia Johnston, Louise Potiki-Bryant, Michael Parmenter, Kelly Nash, Michael Keegan Dolan and Tupua Tigafua amongst others.
The last year has seen Sean appear in Kelly Nash’s Atamira and Ma for Atamira Dance Collective, Michael Parmenter’s Orpheus for New Zealand Dance Company, Neil Ieremia’s Crying Men for Black Grace Dance Company, Tupua Tigafua’s Shel We, Tru Paraha’s 5th Body; xorcsm for Experimental Dance Week, Malia Johnstons Movement of the Human in Auckland Fringe. He also performed the final work by Douglas Wright, a solo called M-Nod.
2019 will see Sean present two choreographic commissions for New Zealand Dance Company and Atamira Dance Collective.
PAIGE SHAND
Paige Shand was born and raised in Wellington. She began dancing at the age of 4 and was accepted into the New Zealand School of Dance as a contemporary major and graduated in 2014.
Since graduating Paige has worked with Tawata Productions, Footnote New Zealand Dance, Atamira Dance Company, BodyCartography Project, Malia Johnston - Movement Of The Human and Taki Rua Productions in their National Tour of Tiki Taane Mahuta alongside renowned New Zealand musicians Tiki Taane and Sam Trevethick. Paige has danced and modeled many times for the World of WearableArt where she had the opportunity to tour with them to China.
In 2016 Paige joined Black Grace performing in their Auckland season of ‘As Night Falls’ choreographed by Neil Ieremia. She then continued on with the company touring nationally and internationally performing works such as ‘Pati Pati and ‘Mother Mother’ and most recently ‘Crying Men’. She also had the opportunity to travel with the company and perform in APAP in New York earlier this year.
At a young age Paige became very interested in acting, and won the award for Best New Zealand Actress for her lead role in the short film water directed by Chris Graham. Paige has appeared in many other films and TV series, one which has aired throughout Australia and across Europe and most recently worked on Dreamwork’s Ghost In The Shell.
Paige is also a model for Kirsty Bunny Management and has modeled for many famous fashion designers across New Zealand.
COLLAboratorS/ CONSULTANTS ( FORM 3)
HOLOGRAM
YA-LING HUANG
Professor Huang Ya-Ling is Dean of Creative Media of Kun Shan University (KSU). She is present host of Hologram Three Dimensional Image Lab in KSU. Focus on developing three-dimensional images in the research and development of visual design as the main research direction. In 2003, she participated in Artist-in-Residence program of the German media art college with U.S. Shearwater Foundation. Major articles and books are “Studying the Depth Perceptual Relationship Between Composition Directionality and 3D Image”, “A Regional Study of Three- dimensional Depth Vision in Ambiguity Figure”, “The Application of Lenticules Stereo-image in Arrow Sign to Research the Spatial Identification”, “Study the Stereo-image Developing Process and Future Trend from Spatial Image”, ”Study of the Z-axis angle for the arrow sign representation from the lenticels’ stereo-image system”.
She is the host of the National Science Council “Study of the Z-Axis Angle for the Arrow Sign Representation, NSC 4-2411-H-168-001” in 2005, “A Study on the Application of Holographic Arrow Sign Representation with Z-Axis Angle Based on the Luminance Gradient” in 2006, “A study of possibility for museum display and archive with laser holography” in 2008 and “Prof. Dieter Jung assists Holographic developing project”.
She is co-host of Ministry of Education “Program of upgrading university basic education - the science and technology arts and multimedia application integration program”. Other Industrial- university cooperation are “Dimensional image material development of mathematics spatial learning”, “Interactive response training device,” “Creative gifts development of Water World Museum” and so on.
http://www.vcd.ksu.edu.tw/?page_id=111
Dr GEOFFROY LAMARCHE
NIWA Principal Scientist - Marine Geology
Geoffroy Lamarche graduated with a PhD from the University of Grenoble, in 1987, after which he undertook a post-doctoral year at Victoria Unversity of Wellington. He returned to New Zealand in 1990 to work as a geophysicist at (the then) DSIR Geology and Geophysics. In 1992, he joined the French Institut de Recherche pour le Développment, in Nice to work on the French-New Zealand marine research program GeodyNZ. He was posted in New Zealand to work on the Fiordland- Puysegur-Macquarie subduction system and the Hikurangi Margin. In 1996, he returned to France to work on the tectonic deformation in the Mediterranean Sea and Cote d'Ivoire margin.
He joined NIWA in 1998, where he leads the Marine Geological Processes and Resources programme. His present work focuses on the deformation that affects the seafloor using remote sensing data, including seismic reflection, seafloor backscatter and water column imaging. One key research project is on building a record of past earthquakes along the Hikurangi margin using the sedimentological record. Geoffroy has led projects in the Southwest Pacific region, Europe, USA and Australia. He has been chief scientist on several geophysical voyages in high seas around New Zealand on New Zealand flagship R.V. Tangaroa and other foreign vessels. In 2017, Geoffroy Lamarche was given the award of Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite for his "inestimable contribution to the bilateral relations between France and New Zealand".
https://www.niwa.co.nz/people/geoffroy-lamarche https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/g-lamarche
CONSULTANTS
FINE ARTS
LUC CHOPPLET
Born in 1981, graduated from the School of Arts /Rueil Malmaison (2003), Les Beaux-Arts National Fine Arts School/ Paris( 2005) and Arts Décoratifs National School/ Paris (2008), he works as an independent artist and as a teacher (drawing and painting) since 2009. Since 2016, he is the head- coordinator of VIA FERRATA, Higher School Preparatory classes with the main goal of training art students for enrollment in major international and national schools, a program taking place in Les Beaux-Arts National Fine Arts School/ Paris.
In the approach of Luc Chopplet, the first stage of realization is most often accidental, voluntarily irrational. It is then counterbalanced by a meticulous work of reorganization through composition. Selected exhibitions : Les heures indécises, La Grange aux belles, Paris ; Mantova creativa art show, Mantoue, Italie ; Accélérateur de particules, Strasbourg ; En dessous de midi, Espace Lhomond, Paris ; Le bal des débutantes, Klemm’s gallery, Berlin, Germany ;L’intervalle entre les jours, Galerie Sandra et Marco Schütz, Fontainebleau ; Finders/ il n’y a pas d’images correspondant à votre recherche, La générale en Manufacture, Sèvres ;Bosch young talent show, Hertogenbosch, Holland ; Comme une pieuvre que son encre même efface, Galerie In-situ, Paris
http://www.beauxartsparis-viaferrata.fr
DESIGN (aeronautic)
DIDIER WOLFF
Visual Artist and creator of Happy Design Studio, Didier Wolff puts his creativity and his passion to the benefit of the aeronautical sector. For the past ten years, he as offered a unique customized external visual identity, technical characteristics of which can be applied to all types of aircraft. Didier Wolff avails himself of a large high-quality network of select technical partners to apply its ultra-professional designs in the rules of art.
http://www.happydesign.net
INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION
Dr JEAN-YVES HERVÉ
Jean-Yves Hervé's holds a degree of ingénieur en génie électrique from École Centrale de Lyon, France, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland, USA.
His initial research domains were computer vision and vision-based robotics (hand-eye coordination; obstacle avoidance for a mobile robot). From 1994 through 2000 he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal, PQ, Canada. There he mostly specialized in applications of computer vision (automatic road inspection, obstacle detection) and sensor-based robotics, in particular in the context of Augmented Reality-based telerobotics for mines and natural harsh environments (navigation, surveying, and localization in mine drifts; AV-based control of a mobile manipulator, automation of a rock breaker, etc.). In 2000 he joined the Department of Computer Science and Statistics, where he is now an Associate Professor of Computer Science and heads the 3D Group for Interactive Visualization. His current research topics include 3D imaging for medical applications (brain registration, modelling of knee articulation, 3D reconstruction of lipoproteins from electron microscope imaging, etc.), fusion of sensor data (video, infrared, radar, range) for military and civilian applications, simulation and interactive visualization, in particular for serious gaming (education, underwater archaeology, historical simulation, etc.), and immersive VR (in particular in the context of exergames).
An important facet of Hervé's research over these years has been the involvement of undergraduate students in all his research projects. He has notably developed a collaboration with faculty of the College of Creative Media at Kun Shan University in Tainan, Taiwan. He spent two semesters there in 2013 and 2014, teaching a course and a workshop, and collaborating with graduate students of the Graduate School of Design.
ARCHITECT - SET DESIGNER
STEVEN LLOYD ARCHITECTURE LTD.
Steven Lloyd is currently a practicing architect in Auckland, New Zealand. In addition to his architectural practice he possesses particular experience in performance design. He has collaborated both as a principal designer of theatrical performance settings and spaces, and also as scenic fabricator of sets.
He has worked closely with Under Lili’s Balcony Theatre - ( productions of The Exchange, The Tower Under the Sky, Too high the Sun), and with Factory (Vogel), a Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand performance research based collective- Studio 77, along with other commercial and professional theatres throughout the country.
He has knowledge of both site specific pieces and touring non- site specific productions. He is conversant with the ideas and poetics of text and spatial possibility. He brings to “Like an Octopus with its Ink Erases”, an intimate understanding of the performance concept, and magical and poetic design ideas that support its trilogy of medium- dance, film, theatre, - as an internationally touring production.
Within the architectural realm he possesses extensive residential experience, and a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of fine architectural and material detailing. He has received a number of awards from both the professional institute , NZIA, and trade associations for his work. Steven is practical, academic and design focused – a combination of qualities that enables him to achieve design solutions with a singular finesse. Steven’s projects are notable for their precision and intellectual rigour. He holds both NZCD and BArch qualifications, and is a regular design tutor at The University of Auckland, where he supervises postgraduate architectural research.
Steven has been a contributor to architectural/urban design and theatrical exhibitions. This complimentary experience in text based and interpretive design work to specific responses to social and cultural factors, informs both his theatrical and architectural endeavours.
producTION
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
NEW ZEALAND
JENNY STEVENSON
A former professional dancer, Jenny Stevenson founded and managed the Wellington Performing Arts Centre a tertiary training establishment funded through TEC which was subsequently sold to Whitireia NZ in 2008.
As an independent producer Jenny has worked on numerous productions in the dance and theatre arena including co-producing three consecutive Kōwhiti Festivals of Māori Contemporary Dance in Wellington, with Merenia and Tanemahuta Gray. Currently Jenny works in an advisory capacity to Hawaiki TU Haka Theatre Company and continues to work as a dance critic and commentator.
