Dhyano Luca Angius - Poet Performer
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Luca Angius aka Dhyano is an Abstrac Artist/ Performer based in St.Ives Cornwall UK.
Born in the Dolomites, South Tyrol Italy, he took a diploma in Electronics and went on to read Performing Arts at the University of Bologna at the time when Umberto Eco was the Director of the Department.
In Bologna he trained as professional performer/actor in several theatre seminars and workshops including with Dario Fo, Yve Le Bretton, the Living Theatre and in a 2 years drama course.
He moved to Florence where he set up a performance company called ‘Improvvise Azioni’ (improvisations/sudden actions) collaborating with a number of major arts events including Arezzo Wave, Centro Pecci and the Contemporary Art Centre ‘Container’.
In 1997 he moved to London where he took a diploma in Arts Management and collaborated with many venues and organisations (including ICA, TS2K, Poetry Society, Round House, Commonwealth Institute and Pump House Gallery).
In 2002 he choose St.Ives Cornwall as his new home and he became part for many years of a Comedy Theatre group, Kulture Brake, regularly performing at the Theatre Upstairs, St.Ives Arts Club, where he developed his unique combination of Poetry Performance, Live Art, and Stand Up Comedy.
In recent years he worked in Adult Care as volunteer coordinator with Volunteering England. He was among the first Radio Producers and Presenters for the launch of the community radio The Source FM with his innovative experimental radio program The Latin Quarter.
He is now creating content through his own platform www.dhyano.com and organising multidisciplinary art events as Dada Lounge
Born in the Dolomites, South Tyrol Italy, he took a diploma in Electronics and went on to read Performing Arts at the University of Bologna at the time when Umberto Eco was the Director of the Department.
In Bologna he trained as professional performer/actor in several theatre seminars and workshops including with Dario Fo, Yve Le Bretton, the Living Theatre and in a 2 years drama course.
He moved to Florence where he set up a performance company called ‘Improvvise Azioni’ (improvisations/sudden actions) collaborating with a number of major arts events including Arezzo Wave, Centro Pecci and the Contemporary Art Centre ‘Container’.
In 1997 he moved to London where he took a diploma in Arts Management and collaborated with many venues and organisations (including ICA, TS2K, Poetry Society, Round House, Commonwealth Institute and Pump House Gallery).
In 2002 he choose St.Ives Cornwall as his new home and he became part for many years of a Comedy Theatre group, Kulture Brake, regularly performing at the Theatre Upstairs, St.Ives Arts Club, where he developed his unique combination of Poetry Performance, Live Art, and Stand Up Comedy.
In recent years he worked in Adult Care as volunteer coordinator with Volunteering England. He was among the first Radio Producers and Presenters for the launch of the community radio The Source FM with his innovative experimental radio program The Latin Quarter.
He is now creating content through his own platform www.dhyano.com and organising multidisciplinary art events as Dada Lounge
Dhyano playing Indian flute during one of his multimedia performances at St.Ives Theatre Upstairs
Read here below a comprehensive list of shows designed, produced and performed by Dhyano. Or download the pdf
2023 Bologna - Finalist in the Poetry Competition 'Bologna In Lettere 2023' with the poem C14
2022 St. Ives UK Design and Creative direction of the multimedia event DADA LAUNGE
2019 St.Ives UK Independent Artistic Director and theatre director for the original play by Evelyn Holloway Graphite and Company, a multi-media play launched at the St.Ives September Festival.
2018 St.Ives Cornwall: A comedy Night with Kulture Brake in Mind a retrospective of Kulture Break comedy theatre with Nicola Klark and Bernie Davis to rais funds for the local charity St.Ives Community Fund
2017 Penzance Cornwall UK, Acorn Theatre, featured as performer in the show Art Extravaganza a theatre show with live art by Ken Turner as a promotional event for the Art Magazine the New Art Examiner.
2017 St.Ives Cornwall: My First 20 years in UK. 560 Km walk in UK and Lagomera Part of the personal fundraising campaign in aid of the charity ShelterBox concluded with a series of fundraising events at Theatre Upstairs, Boathouse Theatre Mariners Gallery and salthouse gallery.
DHYANGLOPHONE , when poetry gains in translation. A series of happenings with Poetry performance, Sound Art and Ambient Music on silent disco headphones. Featuring action painting by artist Paul Wadsworth.
Dhyano Meltdown, An evening of poetry, music, film and sound art. Featuring influential local artists.1986 Canazei TN Italy: A Poetry Show. Dramatised Reading of own poetry with a selection of ambient music played by a DJ on stage.
2016 St.Ives Cornwall: EUK! A night of quirky comedy, music and other incidents. An alternative take on the quandary of the EU Referendum. Performance Poetry, Live Art and Stand Up Comedy alternated with live music by basker Mr.Moon
2013/2014 St.Ives Cornwall: The Dhynamo Show and El Dhyablo Show poetry performance, comedy songs 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.
2010 St.Ives Cornwall: Abducted By Humans, poetry performance,music and stand up comedy.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. Multi-sensory 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.
2008 Falmouth Cornwall: Salon Sardonique by Salone di Limone as part of the Fal River Festival. Stand Up, Poetry Performance and multi-sensory performance including a Taste Installation designed by italian chefs.
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
2005 St.Ives Cornwall: Times=Mozzarella Square written by Shanty Baba regularly performed throughout the season at the Arts Club's Theatre Upstairs.
2003/2006 St.Ives Cornwall, Upstairs Theatre at The st.Ives Arts Club: Kulture Brake Comedy Theatre with Folk Singer Nicola Clark, Blues-man Bernie Davies and Writer Rod Bullimore. Featured in weekly Variety Shows in which Dhyano experimented his unique new form of poetry performance interlaced with Physical Theatre, Live Art and Stand Up Comedy.
2002 St.Ives Cornwall: Regular appearance at Café Frug. Iconic open mic run by Bob Devereux.
1997/2001 London Poetry Café and other venues, regular appearance at Open Mics around town
2001 London ICA: Interactive Poetry Show. 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 Buttler aka Thereman
2001 London (various location as private views and parties) C14 Poetry performance with Theremin and KaosPad.
2001 London Round House, Cave Activity Multisensory installation as part of the launch event of the collective 360 degrees
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. The English translation of each performance was projected onto screens.
1997 Firenze, Napoli, Rimini, Edinburgh, London: The Music Within . Street Performance with recorded original music, live bansuri and poetry while performing a piece of abstract minimal physical theatre and mime with a white mask inside an elastic black fabric.
1996 Firenze: Oral Bar Poetry performance and sound art with live improvised electronic music. The intro of the show was a Sound/Concept Art Performance also by Dhyano. The auditorium's floor of the Art centre was completely covered with coffee cups and saucers 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.
1994/1995 Tesero TN, Bolzano, Rome, Firenze: 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 recorded and in real time and mixed with the music.
1993/'95 Bolzano, Pergine, Rome Italy: Weird Tubes. Poetry Performance including non-linear poetry performed by a Theatre Group, original music by a local folk acoustic music band and Sound Art produced live on a sounding sculpture. (Participation at the Maurizio Costanzo Show Channel 5).
1990/91 Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome and Bologna. Evolution Of the Woman. Street performance of Physical Theatre with a background of recorded poetry, sound art and original music by G.Tarassaco
1992 Bolzano Italy: Pearls Of water Poetry Performance with a DJ Setting
1988/89 Bologna Italy: Instants of Art. Poetry Performance with original music by Gino Tarassaco and stage design by Cristina Dellantonio as part of Bologna Biennale of art.
1987 Predazzo TN Italy: LiberaMente: a Semi-Rock Trip from the top of the mountain to nothingness One Man Show Musical with Lyrics by Dhyano and original music by Gino Tarassaco and Stage design by Cristina Dellantonio
1986 Canazei TN Italy: A Poetry Show. Dramatised Reading of own poetry with a selection of ambient music played by a DJ on stage.
Luca Angius aka Dhyano è un artista / performer con sede a St.Ives in Cornovaglia nel Regno Unito.
Nato nelle Dolomiti, a Canazei, in Trentino, si è diplomato in Elettronica e ha continuato a studiare Arti dello Spettacolo all'Università di Bologna all'epoca in cui Umberto Eco era il Direttore del Dipartimento.
A Bologna si è formato come performer/attore professionista in diversi seminari e workshop teatrali tra cui con Dario Fo, Yve Le Bretton, il Living Theatre e nella scuola di teatro M.Montagna.
Si trasferisce a Firenze dove fonda una compagnia di performance chiamata 'Improvvise Azioni' collaborando con una serie di importanti eventi artistici tra cui Arezzo Wave, Centro Pecci e il Centro d'Arte Contemporanea 'Container'. Partecipa anche a regolari reading alle Giubbe Rosse, svariati festivals
Nel 1997 si è trasferito a Londra dove si è diplomato in Arts Management e ha collaborato con molte sedi e organizzazioni (tra cui ICA, TS2K, Poetry Society, Round House, Commonwealth Institute e Pump House Gallery).
Nel 2002 ha scelto St.Ives Cornwall come sua nuova casa ed è entrato a far parte per molti anni di un gruppo di Comedy Theatre, Kulture Brake, esibendosi regolarmente al Theatre Upstairs, St.Ives Arts Club, dove ha sviluppato la sua combinazione unica di Poetry Performance, Live Art e Stand Up Comedy.
Negli ultimi anni ha lavorato nell'assistenza agli adulti come coordinatore volontario con Volunteering England. È stato tra i primi produttori e presentatori radiofonici per il lancio della radio comunitaria The Source FM con il suo innovativo programma radiofonico sperimentale The Latin Quarter.
Ora sta creando contenuti come Media Artist attraverso la sua piattaforma www.dhyano.com
Nato nelle Dolomiti, a Canazei, in Trentino, si è diplomato in Elettronica e ha continuato a studiare Arti dello Spettacolo all'Università di Bologna all'epoca in cui Umberto Eco era il Direttore del Dipartimento.
A Bologna si è formato come performer/attore professionista in diversi seminari e workshop teatrali tra cui con Dario Fo, Yve Le Bretton, il Living Theatre e nella scuola di teatro M.Montagna.
Si trasferisce a Firenze dove fonda una compagnia di performance chiamata 'Improvvise Azioni' collaborando con una serie di importanti eventi artistici tra cui Arezzo Wave, Centro Pecci e il Centro d'Arte Contemporanea 'Container'. Partecipa anche a regolari reading alle Giubbe Rosse, svariati festivals
Nel 1997 si è trasferito a Londra dove si è diplomato in Arts Management e ha collaborato con molte sedi e organizzazioni (tra cui ICA, TS2K, Poetry Society, Round House, Commonwealth Institute e Pump House Gallery).
Nel 2002 ha scelto St.Ives Cornwall come sua nuova casa ed è entrato a far parte per molti anni di un gruppo di Comedy Theatre, Kulture Brake, esibendosi regolarmente al Theatre Upstairs, St.Ives Arts Club, dove ha sviluppato la sua combinazione unica di Poetry Performance, Live Art e Stand Up Comedy.
Negli ultimi anni ha lavorato nell'assistenza agli adulti come coordinatore volontario con Volunteering England. È stato tra i primi produttori e presentatori radiofonici per il lancio della radio comunitaria The Source FM con il suo innovativo programma radiofonico sperimentale The Latin Quarter.
Ora sta creando contenuti come Media Artist attraverso la sua piattaforma www.dhyano.com