Archival CV - Richard James Allen
EMPLOYMENT
ARTISTIC DIRECTORSHIPS
1997-Current Producer and Co-Artistic Director, The Physical TV Company Pty Ltd
1998-2000 Secretary, President and then Artistic Director of The Poets Union Inc,
with responsibility for producing, directing, and distributing
the work of the national poetry organisation including the 1999 Australian Poetry Festival
1995-96 Co-Artistic Director (with Karen Pearlman), Tasdance, with responsibility for
directing, writing and distributing live performance works, schools tours, the
Tasmanian Poetry and Dance Festival, books, and video dance and dance film
works.
1985-95 Co-Artistic Director (with Karen Pearlman), That Was Fast Productions, with
responsibility for co-creating and performing in live performance works and
video works toured to or screened at over 100 venues in the USA, Europe and
Australia from 1985 to 1995.
1982 Guest Artist (with Karen Pearlman), Dance North and Tropic Line Theatre,
commissioned to co-devise, write, co-choreograph, and co-direct If War Were
A Dance, a dance theatre work (involving both dancers and actors) to
commemorate the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942.
OTHER LIVE PERFORMING CREDITS
Dancer and Actor
2010 Pilar Mata Dupont and Tarryn Gill,
The Lament of the Argentine Military (Sydney)
2008 Katerina Rajch BA Hons Project, UNSW (Sydney)
1985-1986 Victoria Marks Performance Group (New York)
1986 Zvi Gotheiner & Dancers (New York City)
1985 Kenneth Rinker & Dancers (understudy) (New York City)
1983- 1984 KISS International Theatre Research Group (Groningen, Holland)
1984 Kim van der Boon (Groningen, Holland)
1984 Urban Sax (Groningen, Holland) |
