Archival CV - Richard James Allen
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS
2011-2014 – Honorary Appointment as an Associate
in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
at the University of Technology, Sydney
UNIVERSITY DEGREES - Postgraduate
2006 – Winner, The Chancellor’s Award for the most outstanding PhD thesis
from across all departments of the University of Technology, Sydney
2005 – Doctorate of Creative Arts Awarded
Two overseas and one Australian examiner:
All 1’s – no changes required
1998-2004 – Doctorate of Creative Arts Submitted
University of Technology, Sydney
(Transferred from MA in Writing).
1998 -2003 – Awarded Travel Grants to attend film festivals and conferences
to present work:
2003 Vice-Chancellor’s Postgraduate Student Conference Fund,
University of Technology, Sydney
2003 Thesis Completion Equity Grant,
University of Technology, Sydney
2002 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Degree
Student Conference Fund (RJA), University of Technology, Sydney
2000 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Special Student Conference Travel Allocation, University of Technology, Sydney
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Degree
Student Conference Fund, University of Technology, Sydney
1999 Vice-Chancellor’s Postgraduate Student Conference Fund,
University of Technology, Sydney
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Degree
Student Conference Fund, University of Technology, Sydney
1998 – Awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award with stipend
UNIVERSITY DEGREES - Undergraduate
1979-1982 B.A., First Class Honours,
University of Sydney,
Majoring in History, Fine Arts/Film and Italian.
Winner of Four Awards from the University of Sydney:
1982 The Frederick May Memorial Award for Best Italian Essay
1981 Isabel M. King Memorial Prize for Top of the Year, History III Honours
1981 Helen Bennett Memorial Prize for Best Essay in History III Honours
1981 University Union Literary Prize, The University of Sydney
FILM STUDIES
2003 – ReelDance Advance Workshop with Miranda Pennell,
One Extra Company/UNSW
2001 – ReelDance Advanced Workshop, One Extra Company/UNSW
2001 - Robert McKee, Thriller Scriptwriting Seminar, AFTRS
2000 - Robert McKee, Intensive Scriptwriting Seminar, AFTRS
1998 – Scriptwriting Semesters with Marion Ord at UTS
1998 – Scriptwriting Semesters with Linda Aronson at UTS
Australian Film, Television and Radio School Short Courses:
2007 – Creating Machinima
2001 - Visualising the Story
2001 - Creative Coverage
1998 - Story Analysis for Producers
1998 - The Producer, The Market, The Audience
1997 - Subtext and Screen Language
1997 - Film Language
1997 - Actorphobia - The Five Day Cure
1997 - Continuity
1997 - Film Development
1997 - The Producer, The Law & Business Essentials II
1997 - Non-Linear Protocol for Producers and Directors
1997 - The Creative Producer in Television
1994 - Focus on Scriptwriting
The New School for Social Research, New York City :
1991 - Directing Actors for Film (RJA was Teacher's Assistant)
1991 - 16mm Filmmaking II
1990 - 16mm Filmmaking I and Developing Ideas for Film
1984 – Video Dance Workshop with Beba Bissel, New York City
The Tin Sheds, The University of Sydney:
1979 – Super 8 Filmmaking
DANCE AND THEATRE STUDIES
Professional theatre and dance studies have included work in techniques and composition methods in drama, acting, ballet, contemporary dance, postmodern dance, ballroom dance, physical theatre, image theatre and mime with, among others, the following:
2002-2011 Sydney, Australia:
Akram Khan and dancers, Akram Khan Company
Carol Brown and Mette Thomsen
Ohad Naharin and dancers, Batsheva Dance Company
Wayne McGregor
Curious (Leslie Hill and Helen Paris)
Andrew Harwood
Brian Carbee
Tom Hodgson
Dean Walsh
Fiona Malone
Michael Whaites
Sue Healey
Darren Spowart
Matthew Shilling
James Taylor
Joshua Consandine
Vicki Attard
1984 – 1995 New York City, USA:
Maggie Black
Zvi Gotheiner
Sara Rudner
Bebe Miller
Stephen Petronio
Nina Wiener
Bill T. Jones
Arnie Zane
Nina Martin
Deborah Hay
Christine Wright
Ernie Pagnano
Jocelyn Lorenz
Larry Rhodes
Pierre Dulaine
Yvonne Morceau
Jim Martin
Kim Abel
Albert Reed
The Talking Band
International Scholarship student at the Merce Cunningham Studio
(selected for Scholarship by Merce Cunningham).
1983-1984 Groningen, Holland:
Kim van der Boon
Northern Netherlands Dance Company
Jean-Pierre Voos
Laura Lubbers
1979-1983 Sydney, Australia:
Gerrard Sibritt
Shona Innes
Elinor Brickhill
Mira Mansell
Graham Jones
Paul Saliba
Peggy Watson
Lois Travers
Mary Szental
Margaret Barr
Pierre Thibeadeau
Elizabeth Burke
YOGA STUDIES
2011
Jivamukti Immersion in Sydney with Sharon Gannon, David Life and Yogeswari
Jivamukti Masters Classes in New York City with Sharon Gannon and David Life
2005 Jivamukti Yoga ® 300-Hour Teacher Training Certification Program
Residential at the Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
• Taught by Sharon Gannon and David Life
• With highly qualified specialists in Sanskrit: Manorama
• and Anatomy: Kriota Willberg
• Satisfied Yoga Teachers Alliance certification requirements
2003-2004
Working through an alternative Ashtanga Fifth Series and other advances Asana sequences in private sessions with Matthew Sweeney.
Photographs in Yoga Asanas featured in Christina Brown, The Yoga Bible,
Godsfield Press, Alresford, Hampshire, UK, 2003.
1997-2003
At Yoga Moves, Bondi Yoga Vinyasa Centre, Yoga Mat, North Sydney Yoga, Sydney:
was taught Second, Third and Fourth Series Ashtanga Yoga
variously by Peter Sanson, Eileen Hall, Mathew Sweeney, Graeme and Leonie Northfield, Tim Burns, Trevor Tangye, and John Scott.
At Yoga Moves, Bondi Yoga Centre, Sydney University, and Ringpa, Sydney:
attended workshops in Yoga Philosophy with Rami Sivan
and Tibetan Spirituality with Sogyal Rinpoche.
Classes when in New York: at Jivamukti Yoga Centre
with Sharon Gannon and David Life,
and at the Yoga Shala with Eddie Stern
2000, 1998 Yoga Moves, Sydney
First and Second Series Ashtanga Yoga in the Mysore style
Workshops with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and R. Sharat
1997 Sydney Yoga Centre Certificate of Competency in Yoga Teaching
with Eve Grzybowski, Collyn Rivers, Mardi Kendall
1997 Yoga Anatomy and Physiology at Yoga Synergy, Sydney
with Simon Borg-Olivier and Bianca Machliss
1995-6 First and Second Series Ashtanga Yoga
with Gregory Tebb at Tasdance, Tasmania
1992-2003 Avalon Recreation Centre, Iyengar Yoga
with Rick Birell and Carolyn Harris
1990-1996 First Series Ashtanga Yoga and Jivamukti Yoga
at Jivamukti Yoga Centre, New York City,
with Sharon Gannon and David Life and various other teachers |
