David Williams.
Over the past 20 years, David Williams has worked as
a performance maker, writer, translator and teacher
in Australia, England and the USA.
As writer, director, performer, dramaturg or teacher,
he has collaborated with e.g. the Lightning Brothers
and Ex.T.C. (Australia), Insomniac Theatre/Pete Brooks,
Goat Island, Emilyn Claid, Forced Entertainment and
Lone Twin. He has just completed a 6-month collaboration
with Lone Twin on the development of a new narrative
theatre work, Alice Bell, which premiered in early May
2006 at the Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels, before
an international tour.
David has published widely about contemporary performance.
Books include Director’s Theatre (with David Bradby,
Macmillan), Peter Brook & The Mahabharata: Critical
Reflections (Routledge) and Collaborative Theatre: Le
Théâtre du Soleil (Routledge). He has contributed
to many books and magazines, including Performance Research,
New Theatre Quarterly, TDR (New York), and Frakcija
(Croatia). For the past 10 years, he has been a contributing
editor on the journal Performance Research, Recently,
his published writing has focused on animals and/in
performance – particularly horses, birds, dogs
and the bestiaries of certain artists and philosophers
– as well as other unpredictable events on the
edges of performance: fire, water, weather, and an ongoing
historiography of skies and the ways in which they have
been conceived in art and other cultural contexts (skywritings).
He is currently Professor of Theatre at Dartington
College of Arts, Devon.
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