Community Arts And Cultural Development
Photo Credit: Dan Goronszy
Work in collaboration with numerous communities to empower members to create meaningful arts experiences. These could be puppetry, theatre, installation, lanterns and events. Highlights included Maningrida College, Liminal Lines: working in young people in incarceration, Whittlesea Into The Light, Japans Tsunami Region, Taiwan Dream Community.
Photo left: Maningrida, Arnhem Land, Spirit Sister
Bus Of Care and Bespoke installations
Bus Of Care, Nilumbik Metro Bus 2018. Photo credit Dan Goronszy
An immersive installation was created inside the Community Metro bus whose pasengers were octogenarians. Part of a larger project, Nilimbik Shire recognised the passengers were often left out of arts experiences. This installation included self-navigated Care Taking, loosely facilitated by the bus drivers. Feedback from the bus drivers and passengers to Council officers was the passengers were thrilled by the installation, which opened future possibilities for the bus as an arts space.
Importantly: feedback included that the passenger's spirits lifted and they became more animated than usual, chatting about their own blankets and sharing stories of the people from their families who had made them. By the end of the week, the drivers felt proud to drive this bus because it was something special, and that in future they wanted a sign on the outside of the bus so that everyone would know it was not just a regular bus they were driving. The positive feedback resulted in the installation extending for another week. It had exposed a need and desire for arts experiences for seniors of Nillumbik, which led to talks between the passengers and council workers about what else could be on the bus. The Bus of Care gently introduced the passengers and bus drivers to the bus as an arts space, exposed an unknown desire for artistic encounters, and created an opportunity for conversations and imagining of future projects to occur.
Projection Alley - Whittlesea Commission
Projection Alley, 2017, Whittlesea, Photo Credit: Dan Goronszy
Artist In Residence, Commissioned by City Of Whittlesea to create 4 Shadow installations of local highlights of Thomastown and Labor.
The works were then shown as part of Whittlesea Community Festival 2017.
The Great Forest Walk - Knox Festival
The Great Forest Walk is a wonderful place of discovery and observation at Knox Festival 2015. Step out of the bustle of the festival into a beautiful gentle playspace where there are no rules. You are the navigators of you own fun.
Artistic Director: Dan Goronszy
Designer: Rainbow Sweeney
Performers: Betty France and David Pidd
Microscope Workshop : Scale Free Network
Installation assistants: Asha Bee Abraham and Nick Barlow
Stage Management: Rainbow Sweeney
This project received support from Knox City Council
Video by Tom Chapman
Pigeonhole - A Visual Theatre Installation
Photo by Fiona Blandford
Created by The CollaborAgents
Image you took a slice out of a top floor apartment, shrunk it, and placed it on the street. Pigeonhole - A visual theatre installation explores modern urban relationships in an ever increasingly urbanised world where space is at a premium.
Bobbing For Apples
Photo by Sarah Walker Photography
Written, Directed, Designed by Dan Goronszy
An urban Fairytale Exploring sexuality, mob behaviour and belonging.
This site specific, promenade, participatory performance moved through the laneways of Brunswick using puppetry, bouffon, live sound and song. Presented in Midsummer Festival 2009
When Claude Met Roxy;The Erotic Finger Puppet Show
Photo: Fiona Estelle Bamford
Warning: The content of this show may offend some viewers. It contains sexual references, nudity and adult themes.
Claude is a rather awkward fellow. Upon entering a nearby nightclub, he meets Roxy, the local entertainer. Working her foxy moves on him, can he handle all she has to offer?
Set in a dodgy nightclub, this tale explores themes of sexuality, eroticism, indulgence, coming out, vulnerability and love. It is an intimate, 10 minute tale seating an audience of four, with the stadium spectacular seating six!
When Claude Met Roxy is unique, provocative, innovative contemporary theatre.
Created and Performed by Dan Goronszy and Jodee Mundy