CV – Bembo** Davies

( ** name from birth after Cardinal Pietro Bembo:
lover, churchman and patron of the arts, 1470-1547)

2024
“Dance Floors with Subtext”, Pluramon Press
– The dance is not non-cognitive.  When we move, we know what we are doing.  Although, such is the quality of our awareness that it might not really qualify as thinking.  Still our brains most certainly do what they are wired to do; the most infinitesimal units of our consciousness are engaged in the fine-tuning of our responsiveness.  We seek out the collective groove and remain there as long as possible… Why we do this dance thing is another question.
120 pages, €12

2019-2020
XR Bergen:
Pangfritt Nyttår – video production;
Room for us? – natural history museum reopening.

Continued unMonastery writings.
English Comedy Club:  first faltering steps as Stand-forth Comic.

2013-2018…
House Scribe @ The unMonastery:
the major contributor to our BIOS Scriptorium ToolKit:
“The Book of Greater and Lesser Omissions”
“The Stakeholders Handbook”
“Code/unCode/Chronicles of the unRuly”
Medium and Discourse articles
running Blog on items unMonasterial

2007-12

“G+” – ‘human rites’ exploration with actor/director Sabrina Giampetrone,
our contribution to Kunst-i-kit nomadic performance festival:  Tromsø,
Oslo, Trondheim, Stavanger, Bergen  2012

“The Grand Opening” – a human rites workshop with Marijs Boulogne,
BIT (Bergen International Theatre) at Wrap Arthouse  2012

“Hub’s Lear” – guerilla Shakespeare, Westminster Hub –  actor as the King Himself.

Activating Pacifists: ‘Peace is Movement’ workshop – Hardanger Symposium, Jondal.

“The Last Car on Earth – the very Passion of D. Moore vs the Automites”
Meteorfestival  – Svein’s bil og motor a/s : 100% Shakespeare –  2009

‘Extracting Enthusiasm in The Age of Crisis’/ ‘A Kindly Boot’
— a Guerilla Lecture Party Piece :
Kunsthuset Wrap – as  Forget Zis    2008
SummerWorks Festival, Toronto – as The Forget Zis Experiment    2009
Dark Mountain Festival of Uncivilization, Llangollen, Wales     2010
Galleriet 3,14, Bergen    2010
En krevende jobb – Hjelp til hjelparen, RVTS-Vest:  conference 2010
Actor’s College of Theatre and Television, Sydney, Australia:  2010
Burning Ice, Kaaitheater, Brussels;  2011
Cloughjordan Ecovillage, co. Tipperary, Ireland      2011
MEweek, Maastricht,  2012

UN Association of Western Norway, tour guide/project leader :
Norway out of Your Flibbin’ Nutshell.
Human Rite scenario:  Dancing for Heads, Merzouga, Marokko.
Nordorff Media Studies;  two student films.

Centre for International Health Studies, 2007 conference, paper:
a FiNGO (fictive NGO) approach to re-construction in post-HIV Africa.
and then…
The Secrets of Slow Acting:  workshop Bagamoyo School of Drama, Tanzania
The Beautiful Factory:  project with Parapanda Theatre Laboratory, Dar el Salam. 

2003-06
Theatre for Development, University of Winchester,
Masters with Distinction :  dissertation —  Theatre in Denial

Meteorfestival,  –  Mr D. goes to Market
Ringerike FHS – dag workshop:  Day of the Big Stupid
Fieldwork Inner Croatia/Bosnia   – Scenarios for Human Rites
St.Mary’s School, Southampton, –  Standing in your Words
Theatre for Social Intervention, Univ. of Exeter UK, paper –
Transcending the Holy Ground of Marginality
Stuntfilm, Rolf Helge Thoresen
Circus line, Fjordane People’s College, Nordfjordeid –  Clown Awareness
Panoramafilm, Norges Oljeeventyr — actor

2000-02
Bems Åpne Studio (BÅS) led 40+ weekly actor’s training classes
BryggeTango – Tango Abazzo, Bergen/ Nordheimsund, director
Ifengenia,  Bergen 
student radio
FASTArt: Squad Plastique,  Bergen International Culture Centre, diskoteater
Tafjordkraft, commercial
Theatre: more than a dance around your navel,  Norges Ungdomslag.
Sing Shakespeare,  Hordaland Chamber Choir –   reader

1997-99
Folkehøgskolelærer (1990s theatre teacher at 4 People’s Colleges):
Romerike FHS, linjeleder Teater og musikk
En sørgelig historie / A Maudlin Tale   –  Prosjektteater, 
Andrzej Sadowski:
Teatergarasje, Romerike folkehøgskole/ Café SoriaMoria.
Folkehøgskolelærer, Vestoppland FHS, drama, Helse og helhet
Text in Space  – Kunsthuset Wraps summer school.
“Aren’t we all rasicts?”   –  Norskefolkehjelp , Youth for Tolerance  – workshop/brochure

1995-96
Den Multinationale Scene:
My Tenth Calabash –   one woman play w/ Chiku Ali
Bergen Internasjonale Kultursenteret
Easter Festival Kautekeino/Karasjok
Kapitell’96 –  human rights festival, Stavanger
International Conference of Women, Beijing.

Institute for Non-toxic Propaganda:
Kjerringa mot staven   – one woman play w/ Sissel Sannes 
(Title defies translation = The Ol’ Biddy Opposed to Erections -
carries none of the literary associations )

D*U*S*T ; The Invisible Theatre – Bergen International Culture Centre, youth course.
Linjeleder, Teater og musikk, Fana Folkehøgskule
Broken Norwegian Theatre:
Theatre in a Multicultural Nordic, Gøteborg – work demonstration.

Critical Mass – Statensstudiesenter for film – contest winning pilot,  regi: E.Lundby
Søndagsutgave :  Bergens Tidende commercial, regi: Ellen Lundby
No Thinking for Actors – Nordisk teaterråd, Harstad, kursholder

Theatro Bryggen –  Fish Theatre, 180 performances, writer/ director
Gabriel Garcia Lorca – a meeting in sound and shadow, Griegakademiet,  director

1992-94
FiNGO: Department of Remmigration- sign up booth
Linjeleder Teater og musikk, Fana Folkehøgskule
Teaterkompaniet Rabula , director — Two Café Plays:
The Strongest/A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot Strindberg/Williams
Vestlands Teaterlag: an actor’s work with text, kursleder
Project Report on drama with refugee youth, Nygård skole, Bergen 
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Dramatic Occurrences in the Language Class
Ferieklubben – Fairy Tale Factory
Humour festival,  Stavanger – Self exposure Workshop

1990-92
Future Protection Agency, four month Street Theatre project supported by Employment office, Norwegian Arts Council, etc. as contribution to major environmental conference in our hometown : Little Kid’s Last Chance, The Domestic Rainforest, Park Parking, Sweet and Sour Demonstration Relay…
Travel Grant to visit theatre group Tilonia, Rajasthan, India
Theatre and Environment symposium, Gardzienice, Polen –
work demonstration:  Norwegian for Foreigners
Unemployed Youth of the Earth/Future Protection Agency at Hellerudsletta
Future Protection Agency III ,  Natur og ungdom sommerleir, Utøya.

Institute for Non-toxic Propaganda founding meeting, Northern Alliance for 
Environment and Development, Donostia, Basque – Environmental Crisis Psychiatrist
Program leader, theatre, Buskerud Peoples College
Unemployed Youth of the Earth –  SOS rasisme, sommerleir
International School of Bergen – puppet theatre workshop
Pantheatre, Malaraque Spring symposium, Alchemical Theatre, Enrique Pardo

1986-89
skuespilleri workshop, media verksted Bergen
kortfim, Et juleventyr, regi: E.Lundby
Ungdomsprosjekt; uteseksjon/arbeidsformidlingen – Teaterkompaniet M’Rasa
Jury prize, Grimstad short film festival To Tette og en Badehette, dir: E.Lundby – actor
Severin media; short film adaption of Understand You Not Me? to
‘Vondt i Språket’ / Pain in the Language, screenplay/leading roll/direction
Den Multinationale Scene:  writer/director –
Streaks of Salt – a visit with your refugee relations
Fremtiden i våre hender, helgekurs – Action Theatre

1983-86
INNVANDRERTEATERPROSJEKTET senere Den Multinationale Scene
(støttet av KUD, KAD, kulturådet, Hordaland fylket):kurs, workshop, miljøarbeid,
80 fremvisninger av skuespillet: “Forstå ikkje du meg?” / Understand you not me?
Sa Bundok ng Silang  – Riss dansekompaniet.

1982-83
spontaneous actor’s training, Hålogaland Teater, “an emotional warmup”
Gjøglerne kommer I, Club 7 – The Gods of Money
Ferieklubben, klovnekurs (en eller to ganger til? 85,86?)
Teaterlag, B.U.L. i Bergen, Mammas Gress er Grønnest, Dario Fo, director
The Gods of Money  –  Lørdagsmatiné DNS, reading with band
Bergen AOF, clown workshop (also 84, 86)

CANADA  1969 – 82:
( Theatre work: without  job description = Actor;  No place given = Toronto )

1980-82
Persephone Youth Theatre, Saskatoon : New Canadian Kid
Rising Tide Theatre, St. John’s Nfld. : You Gotta Draw the Line Somewhere · set design
RSPU Lunchtime Theatre, St. John’s : The Measures Taken
Centaur Theatre, Montréal :  On the Job
Factory Theatre Lab, Brave New Works : Available Targets
Toronto Theatre Festival, Second Stage :
The Situation in the 
Big Cities on the Eve of the Economic Catastrophe
Théâtre Passe Muraille : The Gods of Money · playwright  (book + libretto)
Comus Music Theatre : The Second Shepherds Play

1973-77
Mummers of Newfoundland : Christmas Mummers’ Play ’73;
Buchans, a Mining Town; Once a Dragon; Christmas Mummers’ Play ’74;
Company Town – (Buchan’s touring version); Dying Hard.
Mysterious Foolish Society:  MUN extension services – artist-in-residence .

Theatre Second Floor :  Waiting for Godot – ( Estragon )
King Lear Expedition :  King Lear – ( Edgar )

25th Street Theatre, Saskatoon : If You Are So Good, Why Are 
You In Saskatoon ?; Heartbreak Hotel; The Sacred Mountain
Sundog Craft Fair :  Perpetual Clown Factory
Hands-Full-of-People : “Dragons on your Doorstep” , · co-author, puppeteer
Rossingol School, Île á là Crosse : ‘Métis Pride Parade Day’, theatre workshop
Canada World Youth, Montréal/La Ronge :
exchange program with the Philippine Islands, group leader

1972-74
Proj’ect Project’, Newfoundland : A Midsummersnight’s Dream (Bottom),
Theatre Passe Muraille : All the Ghosts – assistant director ( to Louis del Grande)
Festival of Two-minute Theatre
Open Circle Theatre : Stop Spadina, puppeteer
National Art’s Centre, Ottawa :  Richard Pochinko’s Clown Workshop
Royal Brothers Circus : clown, tour of New Brunswick

1971-73
National Theatre School of Canada – acting, english

1969-71
Podique Ludiquæ Societas : Mary Magdalena, King Herod – props
Hurdy Gurdy Players :   Hurdy Gurdy Man;
Jack, it’s Rude to Whisper;  Gappo’s Circle ( Kabuki adaptation ).
Global Village (Theatre) – stagehand
David Martin Group : The Card Index – Rosewicz, The Marriage – Gombrowicz
Festival of Underground Theatre : theatre journalist, street-newspaper Guerrilla.
Théâtre Passe Muraille :  I Had It But It’s All Gone Now; Out to Breakfast
THOG :  THOG’s Hamlet –  stage and film versions