Jeffrey Stein: March 2010

Stage managed a great little festival at Bundanon- one of the most beautiful places on earth!
http://www.bundanon.com.au/

Artistic Practice

He is working with Italian Company Raffaello Sanzio, most recently in Art of Play, with Chiara Guidi, facilitating the creation of a new Children’s Theatre work, at Campelltown Arts Centre.

Also performing in their show Inferno at the Avignon Festival, France 08.

Recent Work (2009-10)

Raven Project- IPAC, Wollongong and Brisbane Festival, Under the Radar.

Fire Water, Vivid Festival, Sydney

Agesilaus Santande, Searchlight Festival, Melbourne/ Sydney Biennale

Ariadne’s Thread, Pact Theatre, Sydney, devising and directing a new work in collaboration with 17 children (10-12yrs).

The Secret Name, Legs on the Wall's residency creating a new work with emerging artists.

State We Are In, Urban Theatre Projects with Paul Gazzola and Rosie Denis.

Impasse, worked with Denis Beabouis and William McClure, a development of a new Installation at Carriagewroks. http://www.vimeo.com/17514994

Overlay, collaboration with new media/ performance artist Paul Gazzola (Berlin), developed in residency at University of Wollongong in Aug 2008. http://over-lay.blogspot.com/

PAST WORK

He worked with Gravity Feed Performance Ensemble for twelve years as a core member of the ensemble in all their major productions. www.gravityfeed.org

He also worked with Post Arrivalists, Erth Theatre and Gekidan Kaitaisha, Tokyo.

He has done numerous solo works;

For 5yrs he has taught Performance craft and directed two shows at Pact Youth Theatre.

Creative Producer

As a Creative Producer he seeks to open audience minds to new types of work, trying to provide audiences access to engage with the unusual and opportunities for artists to broaden and expand their audiences.

Hoopla Festival, SHFA, 2011, Cordinator/Programmer;

Mullem Music Festival, Nov, 2009/10, Site/Stage Manager

Viva La Gong Festival, 08, 09, 10, Wollongong, Creative Producer

Riversdale Festival, Bandanon, Jan, 2010, Stage Manager

Australia Day Celebrations. 09, Wollongong, Programmer/Coordinator

15^th Birthday of the Bundanon Trust, 08, Production Manager

NYE Bondi Beach, 05/06/07, Programmer/Coordinator

Great Escape Festival, Sydney, 2006/07, Programmer/Coordinator

Cockatoo Island Festival, 2005, Programmer/Coordinator

LIVEBAIT Festival, Bondi Beach, 2004, Co-artistic director

Keating The Musical, for Company B Belvoir St Theatre, 07-08, Stage-manager

OZCO Inter-Arts Fellowship

For 2 years (07-08) I was engaged in an Australia Council, Inter Arts, Fellowship. Whilst the Fellowship allowed me to research and begin to develop three new works, underlying those projects was my artistic practice transitioning from working primarily with Gravity Feed Ensemble to developing my own practice as a solo artist and various collaborations with other artists.

I was a member of Gravity Feed Ensemble for 12 yrs. Gravity Feed evolved into a unique architectural performance-theatre, employing large sets to create potent, subversive and densely atmospheric events. The work involved movement, objects, sound, light, video and audience as equal partners; it traversed visual arts, architecture and theatre. The tension and synergies between the disciplines fuelled the collaborative process that created each work. The works were undertaken as large-scale site and set-based projects, which investigated new approaches to audience presence and mobility.
www.gravityfeed.org

As part of my Fellowship I researched and developed three new works, underpinning those works was three new collaborations with artists I regard highly and who have informed my practice a great deal:

1. A children's theatre work in collaboration with Chiara Guidi of Company Raffaello Sanzio (Italy). I have been researching the work of this company for a number of years. Last year I performed with the company in their latest show Inferno at the Avignon Festival, July 2008.
The work of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio is considered by many to be the most visionary experimental theatre of our time. Their commitment to interrogating theatre’s form and potential have led to extraordinary work, sometimes considered controversial, and usually on a vast scale, which uncompromisingly mines the human condition. The metaphoric and formal presentations of concepts and philosophies of contemporary cultural thinking, the deconstruction of stage composition and the innovations in audio-visual alienation, are the aspects of this theatre that I was originally interested in observing and studying.

2. Collaboration with dancer Dean Walsh on a dance/theatre piece, based of the life and work of Jean Genet, titled Loving Captive. It was shown in development at Carriageworks, Sydney in Jan 2008. See below.

3. Collaboration with new media/ performance artist Paul Gazzola (Berlin) towards the creation of a live art event. It was developed in residency at University of Wollongong in Aug 2008. See:-http://over-lay.blogspot.com/

Jeffrey Stein

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Searchlight Festival

Riversdale Festival

The Raven Project

IMPASSE

Artistic Practice

Photos: Heidrun Lohr

Creative Producer

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OZCO Inter-Arts Fellowship

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