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Daniel Allen Nelson

DANIEL ALLEN NELSON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Daniel Allen Nelson (Creator/Performer) is a New York based performer, writer, director, designer and founding member of Woof Nova Collective (woofnova.org). His original performance works include: The Vanishing Play (Incubator Arts Project), Dont Peek (LaMama ETC), Hearts & Tongues (LaMama ETC, LOF/T Space- Baltimore, & Ko Festival), Spoleum (Ontological-Hysteric Theater & Baltimore Theater Project), Sedimentary (Ontological Theater & Galapagos Art Space), Veils/Vestiges (Ontological Theater). Performance credits include: Richard Foremans "Idiot Savant" (Public Theater), Marie-Christine Katzs "Unraveling" (The Kitchen), Jeff McMahons "Straight Talk" (Dixon Place), Object Collections: "No Hotel" (Incubator Arts), Actua (Invisible Dog) & "Famous Actors" (Ontological Theater), Joshua Gelbs Blind Alley Guy (IAP), Pioneers Go Easts: "7AM di Mattina" (IAP), and Charles Mees "Fire Island" (3-Legged Dog). Directorial credits include: Tom Breidenbach's: "Pharmacose", and "Bleat", both staged at Ontological Theater & Galapagos Art Space; Chris Tanners "Footballhead" (LaMama & Dixon Place); and the world premiere of John Patrick Shanleys "Veronica" (Hudson Guild). He was SDC Observer on The Composer is Dead (Dir. Tony Taccone- Berkeley Rep Theater), & is an Assoc SDC member. He served as Asst. Director to Everett Quinton on Chris Tanners "The Etiquette of Death" (La Mama). And worked with John Jesurun as Technical Director for "Red House", and as a performer in "Shadowland". His scenic and puppet designs have been seen at various venues in NYC including St. Ann's Warehouse, Mabou Mines, and Poet's Den.

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below is a list of Daniel Allen Nelson's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Don't Peek         Give Back my Beast         Spoleum         Tongues & Hearts         Vanishing Play, The

Don't Peek

Synopsis:
explores our mysterious, relationship with life after death through three interwoven tales that take place at the threshold between this world and the next.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
created And performed by Annie Kunjappy, Daniel Allen Nelson, Morgan von Prelle Pecelli, And Carla Bosjnak

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Organisations:
Woof Nova Collaboration

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Give Back my Beast

Synopsis:
Give Back my Beast is a multi-media Gallery Installation created and performed by Woof Nova collective member Daniel Allen Nelson in collaboration with Production Designer, Jeanette Yew, and Director Kara Feely. The performance will occur daily featuring Nelson along with Marie-Christine Katz and Tavish Miller as they transform the installation around the audience. The piece marks the culmination of a more than 2 year process in the creation of video, design and text. It follows in Woof Nova's tradition of creating productions that meld extensive research with poetic language and imagery. Give Back my Beast explores tipping points and accidents, both natural and human-caused that send us hurdling toward extinction. It is a eulogy to the beasts and myths soon to be lost, and questions if humans possess the ability to enact benevolent transformation. Daniel Allen Nelson performs within his multi-media installation consisting of artifacts and remnants of an extinct cultural and natural environment, bearing a nostalgic resemblance to our own world of just a few moments ago. Nelson shapes a narrative that cycles between transformation and extinction as he grapples with the waning worlds of nature and imagination, and envisions the stories and images that exist in the realm beyond extinction.

Notes:
Created by Temple Crocker & Daniel Allen Nelson

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Organisations:
Woof Nove

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Genre:
Multi-Media Installation and Performance

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Spoleum

Synopsis:
Spoleum is a theatre piece about Empire: the birth, rise, fall, and demise as expressed through architecture and artifact. A group of scientists and architecture aficionados gather to discuss the fall of Venice, and become possessed by the desire to design and plan a new empire.
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Organisations:
Ontological Theatre

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Tongues & Hearts

Synopsis:
Nelson attempt to understand humanity's sublime, contentious and ever-evolving relationship with the natural world. This handcrafted performance work combines objects and images, songs and gestures, original and found texts. the research process that accompanies the making of a piece draws on a variety of sources including mythology, philosophy, the natural and social sciences, alternative medicine, homespun recipes, and visual art.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written And performed by Temple Crocker, Annie Kunjappy, And Daniel Allen Nelson

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Organisations:
Woof Nova

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Vanishing Play, The

Synopsis:
An immigrant actress finds her brother, lost long ago in a freak circus accident, and enlists his help to make her accent disappear. Ghosts of the past appear and lead them on a ritualistic journey where the boundaries of geography, time, life and death begin to vanish. the Vanishing Play explores the struggle to change one's identity, and the conflict between hanging on and escaping the past. the Vanishing Play features Woof Nova's signature mystery noir-adventure style as they delve into an intellectual and aesthetic exploration of Freud's Mourning and Melancholia. Memory becomes an elusive tool, replaced by rituals performed in order to reconstitute identity, history, and relationships - to rend the veil of time, distance and dimension. the Vanishing Play is a hybrid theater piece that melds movement choreography with a choreo-poetic text, and is set within a constantly transforming multi-media landscape that is manipulated by the performers. the piece is Woof Nova's final installment in the trilogy that began with Spoleum (Ontological-HystEric theater, 2006), continued with Don't Peek (La MaMa, 2010), and now concludes with their third exploration into the nature of loss. the disappearance of cultures and their singular attributes acts as a provocative ghost haunting the entire trilogy. With the Vanishing Play the fragility of culture is particularly evoked: the threat of irrevocable loss, balanced with the desire to let go and transform. And the challenge of realizing a future when one is haunted by the ghosts of the past. As with other Woof Nova plays, it is a company-devised piece in which text, design and direction are arrived at through a unique collaborative process.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
created by Daniel Allen Nelson And Alenka Kraigher

1st Produced:
Incubator Arts Project
131 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003    10 Feb 2012

Organisations:
Woof Nova

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Genre:
piece

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Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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