Cabaret
- Authors: Wynen, David
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Performed in the Deluxe Spiegeltent, corner of Sturt and Armstrong Streets, Ballarat - as part of the Ballarat Cabaret Fesival Cabaret revolves around English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with the young American writer Cliff Bradshaw. Alongside Sally and Cliff’s hope of something better is the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Schultz, a Jewish fruit vendor. Pulling the strings of the play is the enigmatic EmCee of the Kit Kat Klub, a dark and sometimes dangerous place. Written by Joe Masteroff based on the work of Christopher Isherwood with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, and brought to you by the team that produced last year's spectacular42nd Street.
Bollywood Meets Tap
- Authors: Wynen, David
- Date: 2006
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- Description: Live performance by David Wynen in 'Bollywood Meets Tap', Commonwealth Game Live Site, Camp Street, Ballarat, March 2006. Such research is related to the combination of two opposing styles of dance, and the background work taken in investigating the history of Bollywood and Tap-two ephemeral dance/art forms. In the past tap and Bollywood has rarely been defined, archived or notated. Such work into integrating musical styles and dance took a signifcant undertaking. This had led to further research into the area of archiving and notating tap dance, creating a codified language and system of notation. The significant of this research is that it fulfils educational criteria whilst showcasing students to the commercial industry. Also integrates dance and art through its brief. Its research component relates to the historic referencing, and educational and professional outcomes.
Tap rhythm online pedagogical program
- Authors: Wynen, David
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Tap Rhythm sought to develop an innovative, online educational programme for students and teachers of tap dancing. Comprising several levels, along with a 'tap dictionary' and the ability to download original musical scores, the syllabus was developed out of a desire to create a resource that was highly interactive and encouraged steady development. Utilising a variety of platforms and suitable for notebooks, tablets and smartphones, Tap Rhythm has already achieved significant international recognition in developing an original resource which accelerates student learning; thereby maintaining enjoyment of the peformance and enabling students to succeed on an international stage.
Billy Elliot The Musical
- Authors: Wynen, David
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: David Wynen performed in 'Billy Elliot The Musical', Captial Theatre Sydney, Australia, November 2007 - November 2008. The research component of this work involved collaborating with the artisitc team in my role as a performer. The musical of Billy Elliot was reinterpreted for the Australia stage as a development phase before reaching New York. Three completely new dance arrangement were researched, workshopped and explored during the process. This work also involved a process of taking the film and expanding it into a live medium. A process involving much reflection and many reincarnations. My work as a performer underwent the ultimate of peer review including high profile reviews and my casting and selection by an international panel of selectors.
The Life
- Authors: Wynen, David
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 'The Life' directed and choreographed by David Wynen, PO Box Theatre, Ballarat, 28 - 30 October 2009. The research component of this work involved interpreting and creating an original production of 'The Life', a musical set in New York that predominantly involved an African American cast. Research relating to period design, costume and movement relevant to the period were developed. In my role as Director and Choreographer I had to develop a sensitive and realitic portrayal of the work whilst being sensitive to the intrinsic cultural nature of the piece. My research question related to fulfilling criteria set out in the performance rights whilst supporting a project designed to replicate a professional working situation for the students involved whilst achieving the highest possible public outcomes.
David Wynen Unplugged and Untapped
- Authors: Wynen, David
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Live performance by David Wynen, Butterfly Club, Melbourne, 12 - 15 October 2006 (1.5 hours). The research component of this work involved collaborating with Jazz musician Christopher Prank in creating tap dances as acoustic works within a cabaret setting. Research involved developing a common vocabularly for both the dancer and the musician to communicate, and the development of eight dance pieces that could only be heard within an acoustic setting. This involved separating tap dance from what is predominantly known as a visual form. My research and its performance outcome held significance as this cabaret was the first of its kind in Australia.
Hatpin
- Authors: Wynen, David
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 'Hatpin' choreographed by David Wynen, Helen MacPherson Smith Theatre, Ballarat, 25 June - 5 July 2009. The research component of this work involved collaborating with the artistic team within my role as choreographer. The Hatpin is a musical set at the turn of the twetieth century in Australia. This was a new interpretation of the work which for the first time involved choreography. Research relating to period design, costume and movement relevant to the period were developed. My research question relates to fulfilling criteria set out by the Director whilst supporting a project designed to replicate a professional working situation for the students involved whilst achieving the highest possible public outcomes. Original choreography was researched and presented within an original production.
Works by Doug Wright
- Authors: Wright, Doug
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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Works by Doug Wright
- Authors: Wright, Doug
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Exhibition of paintings
Scottish series
- Authors: Wright, Doug
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Exhibition of paintings held in Melbourne
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Johnny Storm
- Authors: Woodward, Anthony
- Date: 2009
- Type: Visual art work
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- Description: A small mixed media work on Canvas
Off the map
- Authors: Wood, Heidi
- Date: 2018
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- Description: 22nd September - 6th November 2018. Paris-based Australian artist Heidi Wood’s large-scale immersive wall installation explores the artist's ongoing curiosity about tourism and the unpopularity of tourist zones particularly within the ex-Soviet bloc. Creating her own promotional environment utilising a repertoire of commercial pictograms, mementos and symbols, Wood deliberately questions the very position of culture, the messages it can provide and the people it aims to target. Heidi Wood gained a Bachelor of Arts in printmaking at Victoria College, Prahran, Melbourne and went on to study at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris, DNSAP, atelier Claude Viallat. She lives in Paris and works in Montreuil. Image: Heidi Wood, Covici, Croatia, 2017, unsized digital image Courtesy the artist
DELVE14
- Authors: Wojciechowski, Noirin
- Date: 2014
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- Description: Masters and PhD Research students at the Arts Academy, Ballarat, present their recent work at the Post Office Gallery in an exhibition which reflects diverse ideas and bold approaches to their work and chosen field of inquiry.
PAPERmade
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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Mrs Darwin's Garden
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2010
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- Description: Visual art work exhibited at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Scala
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Scala exhibition - 23rd September to 6th October, 2013 Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, North Carolina The Visual art works comprising Scala investigated the manner in which nature is mediated through both architectural forms and topographic codes; abstracting and embellishing our sense of space, time and ancient/contemporary culture. In doing so the work arrives a point of new knowledge for the discipline in terms of mapping, displacement and the use of motif within our navigation of real and imagined spaces. The significane of this research is attested to by the fact that it was shown at two international, university art galleries; strengthening ties between the Arts Academy at the University of Ballarat amd other art/research institutions in the United States.
'Amphora' exhibition
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2007
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- Description: Exhibition at Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne Woollen carpet installations. This body of research investigated decomposition and decline and reusing cast off material to recreate beauty. It commented on excess of ornamentation, waste and re-working history to create a new story.
Scala
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Scala Exhibition held at Gallery FAB, 7th November-7th December, 2013 University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri The Visual art works comprising Scala investigated the manner in which nature is mediated through both architectural forms and topographic codes; abstracting and embellishing our sense of space, time and ancient/contemporary culture. In doing so the work arrives a point of new knowledge for the discipline in terms of mapping, displacement and the use of motif within our navigation of real and imagined spaces. The significane of this research is attested to by the fact that it was shown at two international, university art galleries; strengthening ties between the Arts Academy at the University of Ballarat amd other art/research institutions in the United States.
'Contained Worlds' Exhibition
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: 'Contained Worlds' Exhibition held at Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne, 13 September - 11 October 2008 This research focussed on various aspects of colonisation and the length early european settlers went to in imposing their own sense of order on the Australian landscape through the creation of their homes and gardens. Long standing concerns with the history of women's handcrafts and the decorative arts was given emphasis in this body of work. Utilising a textile based process of cutting, piecing and stitching, the mapped representation of a given piece of land lost its original sense of meaning and was transformed offering multiple new readings.
Bird atlas
- Authors: Wilson, Carole
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Work exhibited as part of Togart Exhibition, Chan Contemporary Art Space- Darwin, Northern Territory - The work was exhibited as part of the Togarth Contemporary Art Award 2013 in Darwin; which is an annual exhibition that brings together Visual art works from all cultural bakgrounds.