I was introduced to Lara by our friend, Genevieve, who thought that we would "click" and found a common ground when it comes to making theatre and Genevieve was right. But before we had a chance to meet in person, I saw Lara's drawings based on Witkacy's photographs and that was enough to make me want to meet and talk to her. After all: How often do you meet soemone young, on the other end of the world, who is fascinated with your home land hero? So we met, we talked and we decided to start co-operation with the WITKACY READINGS. Lara's Witkacy drawings will be on display at La Mama during our presentation on the last wekend of August.
Also: Lara joins Auto Da Fe for EVERYMAN & THE POLE DANCERS as our Production Manager and further down the track she will design ABBA I AM NOT.
Here is Lara's website: http://www.laraweek.com/
Currently Lara is working on bringing to Australia The Tribal Soul's production of THE MAN WHO COMMITTED THOUGHT. Here is the info and the invitation:
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Auto Da Fe Theatre - Melbourne, Sydney, Tokyo, Krakow. Artists from all over - artists from all disciplines.
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Introducing NORIKO TADANO - shamisen master
EVERYMAN & THE POLE DANCERS' music will be composed and played live by NORIKO TADANO.
Noriko became very popular after her success with Australia's Got Talent, where she performed together with George Kamikawa - the duo making it all the way to the finals ( Noriko & George @ Australia's Got Talent ). Her main interest lies in mixing more traditional forms of Japanese folk music with contemporary western influences. And this is exactly what attracted our attention. I believe that the way she "sees" music and theatre will fit perfectly with our style of production. The combination of traditional, exotic and deliacately beautiful on one hand with brutally modern, everydayish and simply ugly will bring us the desired impact. Noriko's music will be a vital part of it.
Links:
Noriko on ABC TV
https://myspace.com/norikotadano
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Noriko-Tadano-Official-Facebook/117639724992803
http://www.japaninmelbourne.com.au/artice439/
"Noriko Tadano plays both traditional Japanese folk songs (Minyo) as well as original pieces on the Tsugaru Shamisen (Japanese Banjo). She has been playing Shamisen since she was 6 years old and has performed in Japan, Europe, Canada, Tonga and at festivals and events all over Australia. While traditional Minyo depicts the life and feelings of 'older' Japan, centering around the themes of love, family and the close connection with nature, Noriko's original pieces explore feelings and experiences through melodic notes and often heart pounding beats.
Noriko’s recent achievements include the ‘2009 Head Judge’s Special Award’ at the National Japanese Shamisen Competition held in Hirosaki - Japan, a solo performance at the Sydney Opera House and a number of dynamic shows at the International WOMADelaide world music festival with George Kamikawa 2010. She also performed on the popular ABC music quiz TV show ‘Spicks and Specks’ in February 2010.
Noriko is the founder of Australia’s first Shamisen group the ‘Shamys’. They formed in 2005 and have performed at cultural festivals and concerts throughout Victoria. With a mix of traditional and contemporary songs, the Shamisen ensemble creates powerful and synchronised sounds that engage the audience." (after Japan Art Directory in Australia: http://jad.jpf-sydney.org/artists/noriko-tadano/index.html )
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Noriko became very popular after her success with Australia's Got Talent, where she performed together with George Kamikawa - the duo making it all the way to the finals ( Noriko & George @ Australia's Got Talent ). Her main interest lies in mixing more traditional forms of Japanese folk music with contemporary western influences. And this is exactly what attracted our attention. I believe that the way she "sees" music and theatre will fit perfectly with our style of production. The combination of traditional, exotic and deliacately beautiful on one hand with brutally modern, everydayish and simply ugly will bring us the desired impact. Noriko's music will be a vital part of it.
Links:
Noriko on ABC TV
https://myspace.com/norikotadano
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Noriko-Tadano-Official-Facebook/117639724992803
http://www.japaninmelbourne.com.au/artice439/
"Noriko Tadano plays both traditional Japanese folk songs (Minyo) as well as original pieces on the Tsugaru Shamisen (Japanese Banjo). She has been playing Shamisen since she was 6 years old and has performed in Japan, Europe, Canada, Tonga and at festivals and events all over Australia. While traditional Minyo depicts the life and feelings of 'older' Japan, centering around the themes of love, family and the close connection with nature, Noriko's original pieces explore feelings and experiences through melodic notes and often heart pounding beats.
Noriko’s recent achievements include the ‘2009 Head Judge’s Special Award’ at the National Japanese Shamisen Competition held in Hirosaki - Japan, a solo performance at the Sydney Opera House and a number of dynamic shows at the International WOMADelaide world music festival with George Kamikawa 2010. She also performed on the popular ABC music quiz TV show ‘Spicks and Specks’ in February 2010.
Noriko is the founder of Australia’s first Shamisen group the ‘Shamys’. They formed in 2005 and have performed at cultural festivals and concerts throughout Victoria. With a mix of traditional and contemporary songs, the Shamisen ensemble creates powerful and synchronised sounds that engage the audience." (after Japan Art Directory in Australia: http://jad.jpf-sydney.org/artists/noriko-tadano/index.html )
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Friday, July 11, 2014
Introducing NAOMI OTA - visual instalation artist/ designer
Our designer for EVERYMAN & THE POLE DANCERS is NAOMI OTA. I was introduced to Naomi and her work by Matt Crosby, who is a big fan of hers. We met, we talked, we agreed to collaborate. Everyman & The Pole Dancers seemed like an ideal platform to start our collaboration.
Here are some links to Naomi's work:
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/themes/3514/naomi-ota-japanese-migrant-artist-circa-1990
www.naomiota.com
http://jad.jpf-sydney.org/artists/naomi-ota/index.html
http://www.multiculturalarts.com.au/artists/visual/naomiota.shtml
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb5gPi9AMNQ
Naomi Ota - Visual installation artistNaomi Ota is an installation artist whose work uses fibrous materials. Her works ranges in scale from small detailed pieces to large spatially interactive designs. Naomi often draws on images and memories from the natural world and from the earth; places connected to emotional memory, places faraway in the imagination and calling on her memories of growing-up in Japan. Naomi’s works have been exhibited in various exhibitions in Australia, Singapore, Belgium, France, UK and Japan. Her works are in public collections, which include National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Victoria, Art Bank and Kyoto Nishijin Textile Industrial Association. Naomi has extended her practice to include work on a range of national and international projects spanning butoh, contemporary dance, intercultural theatre, and experiential arts projects where she contributes interactive design and spatial elements. Her process is intuitive and collaborative. The result is often to lead the viewer to a more interactive sense of the performance space and an understanding of how expressive qualities of performance are multidimensional. Naomi has PhD in textile art from RMIT University and MAs in fine arts from RMIT University and the Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan
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Monday, July 7, 2014
Friends of Auto Da Fe
Dear friends:
We need you! Quite desperately - as each theatre company needs
audiences, each production needs spectators, each event needs participants...
There is a plan in place. The plan starts with the WITKACY
READINGS @ La Mama in August, followed by EVERYMAN & THE POLE DANCERS @
Metanoia Theatre in Melbourne first , then opening again in Tokyo. Then the next year
our very own Auto Da Fe Theatre Laboratory will present MUTE
(written and directed by Matt Crosby) followed by BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HER by
Dodo Gombar a very exciting playwright and the Artistic Director of the
Svandovo Divadlo Na Smichove Theatre Co. from Prague. And we will finish 2015 with
ABBA- I AM NOT a sequel to EVERYMAN & THE POLE DANCERS.
In 2016 we are already planning a return co-production with
Shinjuku Ryozanpaku and a Witkacy Project (most likely based on the Tropical
Craze). As you can see, we are looking well into the future and we are trying
to build a supporter base, which will make our endeavours worthwhile. We need
to reach out to you and we need to let you know what our plans are. And,
as I said before: We need You! The friend, the spectator... We need a theatre addict, who
can help us to be. Without whom our plans, our work do not make sense at all.
Matt Crosby invented a brilliant platform for our communication
and mutual support: The Auto Da Fe Friends structure. You can read it, you can
share your opinions with us, but most importantly: You can help us by
introducing your circle of friends to the Friends of Auto Da Fe.
So, help us, please - the theatre needs You, we need You, we
cannot exist without You.
Get behind us like a sports' fan gets behind his team - and we
promise to do everything possible to deliver and to put on a production after
production which You will be proud to be a part of.
Thank You, my friends. In advance.
Thank You, regardless of your decision - thank You for
listening,
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
A quick up-date on the Witkacy Project:
The first part of this long term undertaking will take place at the Melbourne's legendary La Mama Theatre - as previously announced - on the 30th & 31st of August 2014. We will perform readings of THE BRAVE PRINCESS, THE POOR LITTLE BOY, COCKROACHES - three of Witkacy's juvenile micro- plays, the Witkacy PORTRAIT PAINTING FIRM REGULATIONS - the most bizzare and absurd set of rules one could imagine and yet, so amazingly honest and amusing and... fun to oblige and to perform, the excerpts from THE TROPICAL CRAZE (MR. PRICE) and fragments of Introduction to The Pure Form In Theatre. The translations are in progress with the first four works done and the latter two still to be completed.
Additionaly the Witkacologia.eu website offered us helping hand in promoting the event and possibly providing a Skype presence of one of their Witkacy specialists with a short lecture/introduction in case we need it. As our own Australian Witkacy addict, Professor John Gillies, agreed to do the intro lecture on The Pure Form and its Author, we may not need the help of the overseas men of knowledge, but it is nice to know that WITKACOLOGIA.EU people have noticed our event. They are the best experts in Witkacy work, art, philosophy and life in the world after all.
EVERYMAN & THE POLE DANCERS is now open for bookings , too.
The season starts on the 1st of October 2014 as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. You can book through the Fringe Festival website or through the Metanoia Theatre.
I will start introducing the cast and crew of the show soon.
Bookings for EVERYMAN & THE POLE DANCERS: BOOK NOW
The first part of this long term undertaking will take place at the Melbourne's legendary La Mama Theatre - as previously announced - on the 30th & 31st of August 2014. We will perform readings of THE BRAVE PRINCESS, THE POOR LITTLE BOY, COCKROACHES - three of Witkacy's juvenile micro- plays, the Witkacy PORTRAIT PAINTING FIRM REGULATIONS - the most bizzare and absurd set of rules one could imagine and yet, so amazingly honest and amusing and... fun to oblige and to perform, the excerpts from THE TROPICAL CRAZE (MR. PRICE) and fragments of Introduction to The Pure Form In Theatre. The translations are in progress with the first four works done and the latter two still to be completed.
Additionaly the Witkacologia.eu website offered us helping hand in promoting the event and possibly providing a Skype presence of one of their Witkacy specialists with a short lecture/introduction in case we need it. As our own Australian Witkacy addict, Professor John Gillies, agreed to do the intro lecture on The Pure Form and its Author, we may not need the help of the overseas men of knowledge, but it is nice to know that WITKACOLOGIA.EU people have noticed our event. They are the best experts in Witkacy work, art, philosophy and life in the world after all.
EVERYMAN & THE POLE DANCERS is now open for bookings , too.
The season starts on the 1st of October 2014 as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. You can book through the Fringe Festival website or through the Metanoia Theatre.
I will start introducing the cast and crew of the show soon.
Bookings for EVERYMAN & THE POLE DANCERS: BOOK NOW
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