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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, phases1 & 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 Seite, 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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