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Wladimiro Woyno R. is Associate Professor in Live Performance Design and Production at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. These are shows, installations and projects made with students.

Shows with students

1690 Matthews

A show at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts, designed and made with students.

Two performers in a studio beside a projected live-camera close-up of a face seen through a glass bowlA live camera over an open photo album, its image projected behind a model house and a monitor showing a performer's faceStudents seated in a black-box studio watching a rehearsal on a set of white walls and a blue screenRehearsal in the studio: performers, tripod cameras and a projected close-up, with the video desk in the foregroundLive-camera feeds of a performer's face projected on studio walls, with a camera rig on a standCut card model pieces of a house with domed turrets on a work tableA video control screen with four camera feeds in front of the set, a portrait projected behindThe finished white card model of the house with two domed turretsThe poster for 1690 Matthews, SCA spring mainstage, Wong Experimental TheatreOn stage: a live feed of the company on the upper screen, the model house on a plinth belowOn stage: a photograph of a house on the screen above, performers drawing on a white wall beside the modelThe company gathered behind the model house on its plinth, on stage

Beacons of the 5th Dimension, and a shadow-puppet show

Two shows made with students in the same year: hanging lamps, frames and shadow puppets. The second show’s title is still to be found.

Handmade lamps hanging in a dark studio, a projected image and rows of chairs behindA masked performer looking up at a glowing pink hanging lampA lighting console and laptop at the operator's desk in the darkA shadow-puppet screen with two silhouettes, costumes and objects hung above itThe studio set: hanging empty frames, a taped square on the floor and stations around the roomA masked performer in a taped square scattered with red objects, a hanging screen aboveThe same station with a different image on the hanging screen and a lantern overheadA performer in gold standing in a lit square before the shadow-puppet screen

Ghost Forest

A student dance project created by Rob Kitsos, Nini Dongier, Justine Chambers, Mauricio Pauly and Wladimiro Woyno. Lighting design and systems.

A drafted elevation of the backdrop: vertical panels and an angled squareA 3D drawing of the set: overhead frames, the panelled wall and the stage floorA bare frame and a white panel on a lift in the empty theatreA scissor lift raising a white panel with a black diamond in the theatreFloor cloths laid out and painted in the theatre, a student working in the backgroundThe painted vertical panels and angled square hung in the theatreA masked student at a work table lit by a lamp, working beside a laptopA projected map with line drawings over it on a theatre wallA colour test pattern mapped across the panelled backdropForest imagery projected over the panels and the floor, a dancer on the stageGreen contour patterns projected across the backdrop and the floorThe stage in forest projection, dancers among the lightDancers on stage under white figure outlines projected on the panels, seen from the control desk

next time i die

A text by Susanna Fournier, made with students at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts.

The set's overhead frame and taped floor in a studio, with crew working around itThe set from above before the audience arrives: a square platform, chairs on all sidesThe square set with a frame overhead and seating around it, in the empty studio theatreA performer seated on a bench in a pool of lightPerformers at a table on the square platform, seen from above with the audience aroundA scene at the table under the overhead frame, in warm lightThe platform in cold blue light, two performers at the tableThe platform lit green, the rest of the room darkA green-lit scene on the platform, seen from aboveThe company on the platform at the end, the audience on all sides

Music is a Theme Park

The Precursor Lab with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra: a live visual score for excerpts of Scheherazade, for young audiences, at the Orpheum. Concept and content by Megan Lane, Jela Ahn and Isabelle Romas. Producer, technologist and mentor.

Building a wooden frame for a touch-screen table in a shopStudents testing two touch-screen tables in the studioTwo masked students working at the touch-screen tablesThe tables set up in the concert hall, students at the screensThe concert hall from the back: the orchestra on stage under a large projection screenStudents at the tables in the hall before a rehearsalStudents at the touch tables, their drawings on the big screen above the orchestraA student drawing on a touch table, the screen image on a monitorStudents working the touch tables during a rehearsal in the hallAn animated face on the big screen above the orchestra, the tables in the foregroundA student at a monitor beside the orchestra's harp, the hall lit purpleDrawn characters on the touch tables, the same figures on the big screen behind

Refraction

SFU SCA Fall Dance Rep, with choreographers Shion Skye Carter, Erika Mitsuhashi, Margarida Macieira and Justine A. Chambers, in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre. Scenographer and supervisor of the student design and production team.

Dancers on a stage floor washed in coloured light, a glowing red doorway upstageThe company standing in a circle on the stage before the show, seen from the seats

A show with Erika Latta

A show with Erika Latta at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Its title is still to be found.

A rehearsal on the set: a long screen above a room of coloured walls and a costume rackCrew and performers at work on the set under the long projection screenThe set from the house, with three screens above it, during a work session

Productions on a proscenium stage

A set of boxes, clothes racks and a framed panel on a proscenium stage, two performersPlatforms on a bare stage, a screen above showing a titlePerformers on a set of platforms before a sky-blue backdrop with a sunset on a screen

Lobby installations and mapping

A first mapping project

Projection mapping on boxes, from the first year of teaching.

Boxes mapped with bright colour shapes in a dark room

Faceted wall

Card facets mounted on the white lobby wall, unlitA projected grid mapped over the facets on the lobby wallA student working at the faceted wallBlue and white light mapped onto the facets, two students looking onA numbered test pattern projected across the facets

Faceted wall, again

A student fixing a star-shaped facet to a wall under a projected gridMapped colour outlines around three facets on the lobby wallFacets on the lobby wall lit by projection, visitors in the roomThe students in front of their mapped wall

A lobby installation

Three pixel panels of white and black pegs: a die, a figure and a spiralStudents building the wooden frames of the panels in the shopA student working on a standing panel in the shopPanels with their white pegs standing in the shopThe panels going up on the lobby wall, a lift beside themThe three panels installed on the lobby wall

Projects with students

Lamps

A lamp project made with students.

A handmade lamp hanging over a table, students working in blue lightA hanging lamp above a red-lit table

MFA collaboration studio

The class at work on drawings at long tables in a studio classroomDrawings laid out along a table, students reviewing themSmall colour collages pinned on a boardCollages laid out on a tableHands working with electronics and small objects at a tableStudents arranging printed images on a table under a cameraCut-out images and objects laid across a tableA monitor showing a live camera image of a collage, with mapping outlinesStudents moving cut-outs under an overhead cameraA monitor showing a layered collage on the live feedCut-outs on a black table under the camera, the result on screens behindCut-outs lit by red, green and blue lamps on a black table

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