Companies that he has worked with include:
Opera Australia (The Rabbits - Melbourne, Perth Festival), State Theatre Co SA. (Ariel - The Tempest) , Australian Dance Theatre ( Fatal Johnny, Adelaide Festval), Circus Oz ( Vic Arts Centre - performance, composition, teaching), The Seymour Group (Robyn Archer's Le Chat Noir, Sydney Festival, Canberra Theatre Centre), Etcetera Theatre Co (Belvoir St Theatre), ABC Television (desoxy theatre), Belvoir St. Theatre (Hate), The Mambologists, Magpie Theatre (Verona - AFCT Adelaide, Bogota Festival Colombia, Canberra Theatre), Strange Fruit (Sydney Festival, Shizuoka Festival Performer - Japan, performer, composer), The Blue Grassy Knoll (Edinburgh Fringe, South Africa, Galway Festival) , Cosmo Cosmolino (composition, performance), Not Yet It's Difficult (World Expo, Germany), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (Ian DeGruchy - composer), The Urban Dream Capsule (Singapore Festival ), David Chesworth/Wax Media (Cosmonaut, Melbourne Festival), The Wikimen, the Ennio Morricone Experience (UK Touring, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Fringe), Bush Gothic (National Folk Festival, Adelaide Fringe Awards, Rajasthan International Folk Festival, Tauranga Festival, UK & IRE tours), Tania Bosak (Exit, 45 downstairs, MONA FOMA), Spooky Men's Chorale (UK touring, National Folk Festival). |
Dan Witton has worked as an actor, physical performer, instrumentalist, composer, sound designer and vocalist.
Freelance work includes mainstage, fringe and independent theatre companies, dance companies, contemporary music ensembles, street theatre, television, bands, physical theatre, acrobatic troupes and in art galleries/installations. Recent work includes: 
Apocalypse Meow, A Crisis is Born - Melbourne Malthouse, BAM NYC
Anthem: Performing Lines, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth Festivals
Pandemonium: Seattle Symphony, Perth Festival (WASO), Sydney Festival (SSO)
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Creative Work
Examples of projects relevant to this application:
Examples of projects relevant to this application:
Urchin (Sea sounds) Melburne Recital Centre
Urchin
Commissioned by the Melbourne Recital Centre as Sea Sounds, an interactive sound oriented performance for babies and their carers. It performed for the Music Play festival in January 2018.
Inspired by research about the sea including fish communication, bio-luminescence, extraordinary life forms, the physics of sound underwater and human pollution of the ocean. More about Urchin
Commissioned by the Melbourne Recital Centre as Sea Sounds, an interactive sound oriented performance for babies and their carers. It performed for the Music Play festival in January 2018.
Inspired by research about the sea including fish communication, bio-luminescence, extraordinary life forms, the physics of sound underwater and human pollution of the ocean. More about Urchin
Sounds Cinematic - Four Winds Festival
The Ennio Morricone Experience
With Graeme Leak, Boris Conley, David Hewitt and Patrick Cronin
An homage to Ennio Morricone with a theatrical ruse: An ensemble of second choice musicians dealing with impossible demands of harried film producers dealing with late changes in the cinematic production process due to budgetary cuts. Real Time article
This performance strategy allowed ‘distance’ between embodiment of the musical material and absurd juxtaposition of ‘post production’ tasks. The work changed nightly: reorganising order, improvising and refining the music which was arguably the most time consuming part of the preparatory process. The ensemble performed in contexts including concert halls, cabaret and theatre both in Australia and overseas. The ensemble eventually changed dramaturgic strategy to refine the performance material into the Spaghetti Western Orchestra. Another version of the approach was made by David Hewitt in collaboration : Sounds Cinematic for the Four Winds Music Festival Barragga Bay NSW.
With Graeme Leak, Boris Conley, David Hewitt and Patrick Cronin
An homage to Ennio Morricone with a theatrical ruse: An ensemble of second choice musicians dealing with impossible demands of harried film producers dealing with late changes in the cinematic production process due to budgetary cuts. Real Time article
This performance strategy allowed ‘distance’ between embodiment of the musical material and absurd juxtaposition of ‘post production’ tasks. The work changed nightly: reorganising order, improvising and refining the music which was arguably the most time consuming part of the preparatory process. The ensemble performed in contexts including concert halls, cabaret and theatre both in Australia and overseas. The ensemble eventually changed dramaturgic strategy to refine the performance material into the Spaghetti Western Orchestra. Another version of the approach was made by David Hewitt in collaboration : Sounds Cinematic for the Four Winds Music Festival Barragga Bay NSW.
Phobia, Chamber Made Opera
Phobia
By Chamber Made Opera with Dan Witton, Teresa Blake, Gerard Brophy, Graeme Leak, Boris Conley, David Hewitt and Patrick Cronin
This project started from text by Douglas Horton and developed dramaturgy based on a combination of futurist experimental sound art coupled with the art of foley for film or live radio. Sound was the leader in the performance media hierarchy. ‘Action’ was determined by virtue of the reason that it was always to make sound. Theatrical approach to sound making using text, action, music, foley, atmosphere and narrative - tempered by an exploration of ‘film noir’ gave a rich approach to the performance work. Initially developed over a short period the work enjoyed multiple seasons and an Australian and international touring.
Chamber Made Opera - Phobia - website archive page
http://www.chambermadeopera.com/works/phobia/
By Chamber Made Opera with Dan Witton, Teresa Blake, Gerard Brophy, Graeme Leak, Boris Conley, David Hewitt and Patrick Cronin
This project started from text by Douglas Horton and developed dramaturgy based on a combination of futurist experimental sound art coupled with the art of foley for film or live radio. Sound was the leader in the performance media hierarchy. ‘Action’ was determined by virtue of the reason that it was always to make sound. Theatrical approach to sound making using text, action, music, foley, atmosphere and narrative - tempered by an exploration of ‘film noir’ gave a rich approach to the performance work. Initially developed over a short period the work enjoyed multiple seasons and an Australian and international touring.
Chamber Made Opera - Phobia - website archive page
http://www.chambermadeopera.com/works/phobia/
Still Awake Still!, New Victory Theatre NYC
Still Awake Still!
From the children book by Elizabeth Honey with Songs by Sue Johnson. Directed by Jessica Wilson with Carolyn Connors, Dan Witton and Renato Vacirca.
This project sought to embody a struggle with creativity. The original text narrative was used to develop improvisational strategies that allowed music and musical clowning to embody psychological forces to explain the nature of control and creative play. The resulting performance toured widely in Australia and the United States including seasons at The New Victory Theatre on Broadway and seasons in most Australian capital cities. http://www.stillawakestilltours.net/,
Still Awake Still Highlights, https://vimeo.com/37639582
From the children book by Elizabeth Honey with Songs by Sue Johnson. Directed by Jessica Wilson with Carolyn Connors, Dan Witton and Renato Vacirca.
This project sought to embody a struggle with creativity. The original text narrative was used to develop improvisational strategies that allowed music and musical clowning to embody psychological forces to explain the nature of control and creative play. The resulting performance toured widely in Australia and the United States including seasons at The New Victory Theatre on Broadway and seasons in most Australian capital cities. http://www.stillawakestilltours.net/,
Still Awake Still Highlights, https://vimeo.com/37639582
desoxy Theatre - 98.3% DNA - being human
desoxy Theatre
Dan co-founded desoxy theatre in 1990 with Teresa Blake creating original performance projects including work at major festivals, film and video, short pieces and independent seasons touring Australia, Venezuela, Spain, Japan, Belgium, Austria, Holland, England, Ireland, Scotland.
Dan co-founded desoxy theatre in 1990 with Teresa Blake creating original performance projects including work at major festivals, film and video, short pieces and independent seasons touring Australia, Venezuela, Spain, Japan, Belgium, Austria, Holland, England, Ireland, Scotland.
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