Luca Angius aka Dhyano is a multi-media artist, performer, activist and pod-caster based in St.Ives Cornwall UK. Dhyano was born and raised in Canazei di Fassa, Italy and read performing arts at the University of Bologna. He lived in Florence and collaborated with many organisations including Arezzo Wave Festival, moved to London UK where he received his graduate diploma in Arts Management from the Birkbeck College and then went on to initiate, create, and oversee countless artistic projects and exhibitions throughout Europe.
Here below is a comprehensive list of Poetry Performance shows created, produced and performed by Dhyano.
1986 Canazei TN Italy: Spettacolo di Poesie Proprie. (a show of he's own Poetry)
1987 Predazzo TN Italy: Liberamente: Un viaggio semi-rock Dalla Cima del Monte al Nulla. (a Semi-Rock Trip from the top of the mountain to the nothingness) One Man Show Musical with Lyrics by Dhyano and by Gino Tarassaco
1988/89 Bologna Italy: Istanti D'Arte (Instants of Art). Poetry Performance with music by Gino Tarassaco
1990/91 Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome and Bologna. Evolution Of the Woman. Street performance with recorded poetry and music by G.Tarassaco
1992 Bolzano Italy: Perle D'Acqua. (Pearls Of water) Poetry Performance with a DJ Setting
1993/'95 Bolzano, Pergine, Rome Italy: Tubi Balordi. Poetry Performance including non-linear poetry performed by a Theatre Group, original music by a local folk acustic music band and Sound Art produced live on a sounding sculpture.
1994/1995 Tesero TN, Bolzano, Rome, Firenze: Obiettivo Poesia Virtuale (Objective Virtual Poetry). Performance Poetry with original electronic music designed and recorded by Transline. Non-Linear Poetry samples were mixed in the music . Interaction with the audience was fed-back in real time and mixed with the music.
1996 Firenze: Bar Orale (Oral Bar) Poetry performance and sound art with live improvised electronic music. The show stared with a Sound/Concept Art Performance also by Dhyano. The auditorium's floor of the Art centre was completelly covered with cups and sources and the audience was asked to walk through producing background sounds recorded, sampled and filtered through the keyboard. Inside each cup was placed a word that was part of a non-linear poem. The audience was asked to read loudly the words and their voices recorded and used as samples in the piece.
1997 Firenze, Napoli, Rimini, Edinburgh, London: 'The Music Within' . Street Performance with recorded original music and poetry while performing a piece of abstract dance by using a white mask and an elastic black fabric.
1998/2000 London: MPE Multilingual Poetry Event. Multidisciplinary Arts Event with poetry performances in various original languages.
Various Venues including Poetry Café, Pump House Gallery and Commonwealth Institute.
2001 London ICA: Interactive Poetry. In the ICA Café as part of the launch event of an Interactive Arts Exhibition. Non-linear performance with audience participation sampled, fed-back live and mixed with live electronic music and theremin by George .
2001 London C14 Poetry performance with Theremin and KaosPad.
1997/2001 London Poetry Café and other venues, regular appearance at Open Mics around town
2002 St.Ives Cornwall: Regular appearance at Café Frug. Iconic open mic run by Bob Devereux.
2003/2006 St.Ives Cornwall : Part of Kulture Brake Comedy Theatre Variety Shows Splatt, Lafff and Triumph. Regular appearance with poetry performances introduced by Stand Up Comedy.
2005 St.Ives Cornwall: Times=Mozzarella Square a Play written by Shanty Baba regularly performed at the Arts Club's Theatre Upstairs
2007 St.Ives Cornwall: SNOTTONTV the Alternative Guide To St.Ives. A DVD featuring Kulture Brake best Comedy Sketches filmed on location by Alban Roinard , produced by Eia Films, Bopdoq Media and Rod Bullimore
2008 Falmouth Cornwall: Salon Sardonique by Salone di Limone as part of the Fal River Festival. Stand Up, Poetry Performance and Italian Buffet
2009 Falmouth Cornwall: Out Of Words: Poetry Performance and Stand up Comedy with Dominik Power and Les Merton.
2009 Falmouth, Redruth Cornwall: The New Futurist Manifesto. Launch event with poetry, sound art, textiles , visuals and buffet.
2009/2011 Penryn Cornwall: The Latin Quarter Radio Show. A radio Show with imaginary soundscapes and other incidents live on The Source FM community radio for Penryn and Falmouth on 96.1fm.
2010 St.Ives Cornwall: Abducted By Human , poetry performance,music and stand up comedy.
2012 St.Ives Cornwall: The Cuckoo Town Guide To Art. A play by Shanty Baba regularly performed at the Theatre Upstairs.
2013/2014 St.Ives Cornwall: The Dhynamo Show and El Dhyablo Show poetry performance, comedy songs and stand up comedy
2016 St.Ives Cornwall: EUK! A night of quirky comedy, music and other incidents. An alternative take on the quandary of the
EU Referendum.
2017 St.Ives Cornwall: DHYANGLOPHONE , when poetry gains in translation. Poetry performance, Sound Art and Ambient Music on silent disco headphones.
Dhyano Meltdown, An evening of poetry, music, film and sound art.
