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1989 | 1990
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ELAN Wales was founded in 1990 by Firenza Guidi and David Murray.
The first performance/montage was created in Belfast by Firenza Guidi
in 1989. Since then the director and her international team of collaborators
have created montages with young people throughout Europe.
1989 
- Waiting Places, Collaboration:
T.R.A.S.C. (Theatre Research & Actors' Science), Cologne, Germany.
- Stations, first performance/montage,
UYT (Ulster Youth Theatre), European Encounter, Belfast, N. Ireland.
1990
- Atsumori, phases 1 & 2, perf/montage,
with UYT. Phase 1 in association with Enrique Pardo, Roy Hart School,
France. Producer: Arts Council N. Ireland.
1991
- The Last Ferry, UYT, Pollock
Dock, Belfast. Collab.: Welfare State International. Producer: Arts
Council Northern Ireland.
- The Mud Vision, perf/montage
(inspired by Seamus Heaney). Presenter & Producer: Dublin Theatre
Festival.
1992
- Der Aufbruch zum Untergang,
perf/montage. Producer: CasaMax; Partner: Jugendkunstschule, Cologne,
Germany.
- Eating the Gods,
perf/montage (inspired by: The Pardoner's Tale, Chaucer). Producer
& Presenter: Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, Wales.
- Raw Women and Cooked Men I
(inspired by: A Lover's Discourse, R.Barthes). First exploration
of Desire. The Gallery, Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, Wales.
- The Masking of the City, large-scale,
site-specific performance. Collab.: Donato Sartori/Centro Maschere
e Strutture Gestuali (Padua, Italy). Producer & Presenter: Impact
92, Derry, N.Ireland
1993
- Raw Women and Cooked Men II -
Über das Begehren. Producer: ELAN/CasaMax; Collab.: Kunsthochschule
für Medien and the Musickhochschule, Cologne, Germany.
- Time In A Red Coat, perf/montage
(inspired by: George Mackay Brown). Producer & Presenter: Luaga &
Losna Festival, Bludenz, Austria.
- The Song of Iron on Stone,
perf/montage (inspired by G. M. Brown) IETTYP I(International Experimental
Theatre Training for Young Performers), Pilot Summer School, San Miniato,
Italy.
- The Garden of Delights, devised
& directed by FG for Theatr Iolo, Cardiff, Wales.
1994
- Eine Schlaflöse Nacht, devised
& directed by FG for CasaMax, Cologne, Germany.
- Evil Bakes a Cherry Pie (inspired
by Candide,Voltaire). Production: ELAN. Presenter: The Gym, Cardiff
& Luaga & Losna Fesrival, Bludenz, Austria.
- Dying to Curse, perf/montage.
(inspired by G. M. Brown),Presenter: Welsh College of Music and Drama,
Cardiff, Wales.
- A Bouquet of Back-Handed Compliments,
perf/montage. Producers & Presenters: Luaga and Losna Festival, Bludenz
& Feldkirch Kulturreferat, Austria.
- Madame Joy, perf/montage,
IETTYP II. Producer & Presenter: La Luna è Azzurra Festival, San Miniato,
Italy.
- Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare.
Directed by FG for Theatr Iolo, Cardiff, Wales.
- Y Doctor di Glem, Molière,
trans. Annes Gruffydd, directed by FG for Theatr Gwynedd, Bangor,
Wales.
1995
- Bombs & Bloomers, perf/montage,
collab.: Hijinx Theatre. Partner: Bethel URC, Cardiff, Wales.
- Dyhead, perf/montage, Festival
of Desire, University of Glamorgan, Wales.
- Cariad-The Eyes of Phaedra,
perf/montage, Women's Arts Festival & Giving Voice Festival (CPR),
Cardiff, Wales.
- And The Dragon Was A Queen At Last
(inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice books). Production: ELAN. Presenter:
Chapter, Cardiff, Wales.
- Evil Bakes a Cherry Pie, Chapter,
Cardiff, Wales.
- Raw Women and Cooked Men III -The
Language of Seduction. Production: ELAN. Presenter: Chapter, Cardiff,
Wales.
- Eine Kurze Geshichte der Mannscheit, Budapest. Production:
Theater der Figur (Austria). Touring: Austria, Hungary.
- The Bone Shoes,
perf/montage, IETTYP III. Producer & Presenter: La Luna è Azzurra
Festival, San Miniato, Italy.
- Lacrime e boogie - Il Padule
del Silenzio, written & directed by FG. Producer & Presenter: Comune
di Fucecchio, Florence,Italy.
- Leere Saite, created & directed
by FG for CasaMax, Cologne, Germany. Nominated for Cologne Best Theatre
Prize '95.
1996
- Raw Women and Cooked Men III,
touring Cardiff & Chicago, USA (Mid-America Theatre Conference; paper
& workshop on The Theatre of Desire)
- Evil Bakes a Cherry Pie, Agor
Drysau/Opening Doors Festival, Aberystwyth, Wales
- Icona Zero, Production: Teatrino
dei Fondi. Presenter: Teatro Verdi, Pisa, Italy. Sarajevo Steel, phase
1. Production: ELAN. Presenter: Chapter, The Stiwdio, Cardiff, Wales.
- Ö et Nous,
Transnational Collab. with Agora (Belgium), Theater der Figur (Austria).
Producer & Presenter: Luaga & Losna Festival, Austria.
- The Tree Brides, perf/montage,
IETTYP IV. Producer & Presenter: La Luna è Azzurra Festival, San Miniato,
Italy.
- The Tidefields, perf/montage.
Producer: Cardiff Bay Art Trust. Partners: Eastmoors Community & Ed.
Centre & Splott Festival; Willows High School, Cardiff, Wales.
- Raw Women and Men III, The
Red Tent, Cardiff Summer Festival, Wales.
- The Theatre of Desire,
workshop/residency, Gormanston, Ireland.
- Ö et Nous, Internationales
Theater Fest, St Vith, Belgium; CasaMax, Cologne, Germany.
- Beginnings, perf/montage.
Producer & Presenter: CasaMax, Cologne, Germany
- Glamstock, intercultural
event, University of Glamorgan, Wales.
1997
- Greasepaint & Lemon Polo-necks,
perf/montage. Collab.: Hijinx Theatre, Presenter: John Reynolds Centre,
Llanrumney,Cardiff, Wales.
- Ö et Nous, Balkan Tour: Zagreb
(Croatia), Tuzla (Bosnia i Herzegovina), Sarajevo Winter Festival
1997.
- Raw Women and Cooked Men III,,
Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, England. Die Heilige Kümmernis, opera/montage,
Feldkirch Konservatorium. Producer: Kulturreferat Feldkirch, Austria.
- Scharlachgold-Eine Passion,
created & directed by FG for CasaMax, Cologne. Touring Germany & Stazioni
del Teatro Festival, Italy.
- Of Love & Demons, international
workshop residency , Gormanston, Ireland. Fucecchio, Italy.
- Acqua Nera:
In the Underground of Memory, site-specific, large-scale performance.
Producer: Comune di Fucecchio, Italy. Presented as part of the Festival
Stazioni del Teatro.
1998
- Shadows In The Ditch, perf/montage,
Fucecchio, Italy.
- Land of Heart's Desire-courtly
love in urban ghettos, perf/montage, Chapter, The Stiwdio,
Cardiff, Wales.
- Scharlachgold, Winner of Dortmund
Theaterzwang '98.
- Mamo Miri, perf. & Video/montage,
Dún Láoghaire, Ireland. Producer: ARTSLAB (Ireland).
- Sangue del mio Sangue, site-specific,
large-scale, multi-media performance. Festival: Marea 98. Producer:
Comune di Fucecchio, Italy.
- In The Name of The Body, (adapted
from Shakespeare's The Tempest), site-specific performance. Festival:
Theatre 2000 Hvar, Croatia.
- All the Sundays of May, written
& directed by FG for Hijinx Theatre, touring Wales & England.
- Fear No Man's Return, inspired
by The Trojan Women. Adapted & directed by FG for University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, Wales.
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