David Wells
David Wells is interested in working with diverse groups who are passionate about making significant art in a wide variety of settings. He is also interested in performing in experimental capacities in interactive situations as well as conventional contexts. David’s work usually features improvisation as a large component, creative audience relationships and alternative staging.
Highlights include:
Weekly Ticket Footscray
15 year durational installation/performance at Footscray Station Melbourne Australia with Madelaine Flynn, Tim Humphrey, Merophie Carr and Bec Reid
http://weeklyticket.org
Dancer in Residence at The Melbourne Zoo 1982 -83
The Urban Dream Capsule - 1996-2006, Festivals of Melbourne, Ghent, London, Montreal, Wellington, Perth, Chicago, Galway and Sao Paulo, Singapore, Hong Kong
Born in a Taxi Founding member - a physical theatre company
The Blue Project touring Australia and NZ.
The Megaphone Project – Sound Installation. With Tim Humphrey and Madelaine Flynn At Least 6 Major festivals around Australia including Sydney Opera house 2009 and Sydney festival 2013. Washington DC 2011 , Philadelphia and Asheville USA 2013. Melbourne Recital Centre 2010+2014
http://themegaphoneproject.com
Mantalk - with Neil Thomas - 2006 MIFA and Melbourne Fringe, Adelaide Cabaret festival 2007, Regional Arts Victoria tour 2008, Darwin festival 2009.
FOG Theatre - Artistic Director 2003 current, a theatre company for artists who have an intellectual disability. The last show was Shine a Light 2013 St Kilda Town Hall.
5 Short Blasts 2013 Environmental installation Port of Melbourne
with Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn
David Wells is interested in working with diverse groups who are passionate about making significant art in a wide variety of settings. He is also interested in performing in experimental capacities in interactive situations as well as conventional contexts. David’s work usually features improvisation as a large component, creative audience relationships and alternative staging.
Highlights include:
Weekly Ticket Footscray
15 year durational installation/performance at Footscray Station Melbourne Australia with Madelaine Flynn, Tim Humphrey, Merophie Carr and Bec Reid
http://weeklyticket.org
Dancer in Residence at The Melbourne Zoo 1982 -83
The Urban Dream Capsule - 1996-2006, Festivals of Melbourne, Ghent, London, Montreal, Wellington, Perth, Chicago, Galway and Sao Paulo, Singapore, Hong Kong
Born in a Taxi Founding member - a physical theatre company
The Blue Project touring Australia and NZ.
The Megaphone Project – Sound Installation. With Tim Humphrey and Madelaine Flynn At Least 6 Major festivals around Australia including Sydney Opera house 2009 and Sydney festival 2013. Washington DC 2011 , Philadelphia and Asheville USA 2013. Melbourne Recital Centre 2010+2014
http://themegaphoneproject.com
Mantalk - with Neil Thomas - 2006 MIFA and Melbourne Fringe, Adelaide Cabaret festival 2007, Regional Arts Victoria tour 2008, Darwin festival 2009.
FOG Theatre - Artistic Director 2003 current, a theatre company for artists who have an intellectual disability. The last show was Shine a Light 2013 St Kilda Town Hall.
5 Short Blasts 2013 Environmental installation Port of Melbourne
with Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn
Michael Havir
I am a Melbourne based musician, composer, sound designer and performer with a multidisciplinary practice focusing on collaboration with animators, dancers, physical performers, theatre makers, VJ's and music ensembles.
Working with artists as varied as Born in a Taxi, The Village People, Yothu Yindi, the Melbourne Workers Theatre, Danceworks, Polyglot, Chamber Made Opera, Queensland Theatre Company, NICA, Playback, SBS-TV and the ABC, Stranger Cole and Dawn Penn (Jamaica) and the Melbourne Ska Orchestra I have built a practice combining versatility and adaptability with a strong sense of theatre.
Using improvisation as a performance and compositional tool I have developed a special interest in using recorded and live text to create narrative threads in performance. My work has been described as, “Astonishing electronic soundscaping” (Cameron Woodhead The Age)…”sublime…. the brilliance of the composition never overshadows the performance itself…. it adds texture, depth and a necessary point of reference about the emotion being projected.” (Michael Kingston Buzz Cuts)
I am the recipient of an ATOM award, and was Australia’s entrant at the MILIA festival France for Three Mile Creek (with multimedia artist Alyssa Rothwell)
Invited workshops include with avant garde vocal stylist David Moss, David Hykes of The Harmonic Choir and Tran Quang Hai (Le Musee de L’Homme France) in harmonic singing.
http://www.michaelhavir.com
I am a Melbourne based musician, composer, sound designer and performer with a multidisciplinary practice focusing on collaboration with animators, dancers, physical performers, theatre makers, VJ's and music ensembles.
Working with artists as varied as Born in a Taxi, The Village People, Yothu Yindi, the Melbourne Workers Theatre, Danceworks, Polyglot, Chamber Made Opera, Queensland Theatre Company, NICA, Playback, SBS-TV and the ABC, Stranger Cole and Dawn Penn (Jamaica) and the Melbourne Ska Orchestra I have built a practice combining versatility and adaptability with a strong sense of theatre.
Using improvisation as a performance and compositional tool I have developed a special interest in using recorded and live text to create narrative threads in performance. My work has been described as, “Astonishing electronic soundscaping” (Cameron Woodhead The Age)…”sublime…. the brilliance of the composition never overshadows the performance itself…. it adds texture, depth and a necessary point of reference about the emotion being projected.” (Michael Kingston Buzz Cuts)
I am the recipient of an ATOM award, and was Australia’s entrant at the MILIA festival France for Three Mile Creek (with multimedia artist Alyssa Rothwell)
Invited workshops include with avant garde vocal stylist David Moss, David Hykes of The Harmonic Choir and Tran Quang Hai (Le Musee de L’Homme France) in harmonic singing.
http://www.michaelhavir.com