David Goff Eveleigh - CV
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1971-74
Bristol College of Art and Design - BA Fine
Art
1975
Lived and painted in Southern Italy
1976
Joined Gerry Cottle’s Circus
as Goffeee the Clown
BBC Seaside Special
Pinders Circus, Scotland
Goffeee - happy days
1977
Toured
village halls and regular Saturday shows at Dingwalls Camden
Lock, London with Sasso, Turkey Sandwich and Wild Ruby
1978-80
The Great Goffeee & Sasso
Clown show featuring Sir Henry Egg (cockerel) Mr Bun (white
rabbit) and Cabbage
the Wonder Dog toured London Children's theatres, village halls
in the Isle of Wight Welsh Border and West Country, and many
festivals (including Elephant Fayre and Glastonbury) - I have
performed at Glastonbury on a regular basis ever since.
Painted and sculpted during winter months
1981-82
Moved to Wales,
set up smallholding and studios, continued national touring.
Regular summer season
on Tenby Beach - clown
shows and Punch & Judy.
1983
Goffeee
and Day Horsedrawn Circus Tour of Yorkshire
1984 April 1st. Founded first National New
Circus Convention and continued to organise for the next ten
years. Founded Circus Dda. Toured Wales and the
Welsh Borders with "Taliesen" -
Britain's first travelling and tented New Circus Show.
Circus Dda.
1985-88
The Great Goffeee Clown Shows - tightrope,
sousaphone, circus skills, COMEDY and a goose.
Toured all major British Children's Festivals and toured
to Israel, Holland and France.
1988-94
The Great Goffeee Clown Shows
Arts Play Umbrella UK Tours and Solo tours from Shetland
to Lands Ends.
Organised Theatre and New Circus Masterclasses.
I have continued performing as a clown ever
since but in 1989 a new interest emerged, that of Fire and
Elemental Theatre.
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Theatre
The following dates are a brief selection and exclude wedding,
parties and small events
1989
"Bordertown" - multi-media
community production Monmouth, S. Wales.Built and manned
fiery funeral Barge of
Henry V and co built large dragon fire sculpture.
1990
"Dark Castle" St Donat's
Castle, S. Wales.
- Masterclass with Boris Howarth
- Multi location theatre - wrote and performed "The Butler's
Story"
1991
"The Whale" Shetland, Scotland
- directed community fire theatre and built Whale fire sculpture
(10 x 6 metres).
Torchlight procession 1992 "Burn the Sun, Light the Moon",
Hay-on-Wye - founded and directed Hay-on-Fire. Torchlight procession
and spectacular fire theatre, massed fire performers, giant
puppets, fire labyrinths, wicker giants, fire sculptures on
land and water, fireworks, traction engine, horses, music and
drama
1993
"Pinball Ball Wizard" 'Hay-on-Fire'
Arthurian elemental Epic!
Founder and Director "Festival Fringe"
1994
"Merlin's Rage" Glastonbury
Festival - performance and largest firel labyrinth ever built
"The Faerie King" Hay-on-Fire
magical fire theatre - giant processional dragons and floating
faerie castle
"Fire and Lantern Festival",
Llantwit Major, S Wales (St Donat's Arts Centre) -'Burning
Heart' wicker giant, fire
and fireworks
'Solstice Warrior' - Mexico, Pacific Coast - burning giant,
music and dance
"Festival Fringe" Hay Literary
Festival - Director
1995
Huehuecoytl, Mexico, Tepoztlan - coyote fire labyrinth
and celebration
'Eye of the Soul' St Donat's Castle, S Wales - fire theatre
collaboration with SWICA
'Oberon's Fire' Hay-on-Fire. The biggest and most spectacular
fire event in Wales. My final year as devisor and director.
'Crafts in Action' St Donat's Castle - wicker giant
'Colyn the Pirate' Llantwit Major, S Wales - Lantern procession,
burning galleons and fire theatre for St Donat's Arts Centre.
1996
'Merlin's Rage' Los Angeles, USA - director and performer,
fire labyrinth and theatre
Trigo Limpo, teatro acert, Portugal. Fire workshops and performance
Santiago de Compostela, Spain - Fire workshops and performance
'Fire Finale' Hay Literary Festival
'Summerisle' The Wicker Man - Mid Wales Festival - comedy
fire performance and wicker giant
'St Illtud's Eve' Llantwit Major (St Donat's Arts Centre)
now established as S Wales major annual festival of lanterns
and fire theatre - Director
1997
'Book of Fire - Prospero' Hay Literary Festival
Finale - Shakespearian Fire theatre
'Severn Revels' Forest of Dean - Festival fire finale
'George and the Dragon' International Festival of the Arts,
Tbilisi, Georgia - fire theatre in collaboration with festival
performers and Georgian artists
Festival Finale, Beyond the Border International Storytelling
Festival, St Donat's Castle - labyrinth and collaboration with
festival performers.
'St Illtud's Eve' Llantwit Major - annual lantern and fire
festival
1998
'Cranes on Fire' Tbilisi, Georgia - fire and feasting
'Fire Tree' Hay Literary Festival Finale - fire, fireworks
and trees.
'The Eye of Winter' Wysing Arts, Cambridge - eye fire labyrinth
procession and performance.
1998-99
Callenic (New Year's Eve) Cardiff City Council - Devising,
directing a new annual New Year's Eve celebration and event
for Wales's capital city in collaboration with SWICA - grand
procession of bands, dancers and lanterns and huge fire sculptures
'The Holly King'
1999
'Making the May King' Crafts in Action, St Donat's Castle
- building and decorating a wicker giant and working with students
of Atlantic College
Fire dragonBeyond the Border International Storytelling Festival
Finale, St Donat's Castle - colourful procession with 'May
King' and wedding of the faerie princess and the Green Man
- Music, fire sculptures, children and fireworks
'Fire on Water' Hay Literary Festival
Finale - 26' high wicker giant floating down the river on
fire with fireworks - "Thank-God-I-was-there-moment" JW
in The Independent
'Venus of the Valleys' community project with No Fit State
Circus - Botticelli's Venus on fire
1999
'Millennium
Fire Labyrinth' Traquair House, Scotland, 30 x 10 yds
2000
"Balder's Journey to Valhalla",
Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival, St.
Donat's Castle - full Viking funeral with 35ft viking ship).
Kirkby Stephen Grammar, Cumbria - 'Ancestral Voices Day' -
25ft wicker giant built by 20 students in a day! Fire wizardry.
2001
August - Festival at
the Edge, "Telling Merlin".
Theatre, fire procession and fireworks.
2002 - 2005
Caerphilly Castle - Annual giant lantern parade and fire
theatre on the castle moat.
Caerphilly Castle ......directing
annual fire theatre on the castle moat for SWICA www.swica.co.uk
2004
St Donat's Arts Centre, 'The Horse Project'. Giant horse and theatre.
2005
Swansea "Phoenix", fire dragons, Valentines Labyrinth, fire sea,
moonlight and romance and fifty burning figures.
2006
Mordiford
Dragon Day. 30ft Dragon and carnival
Urkult Festival, Sweden. Devising, directing opening fire theatre
and closing
ceremony www.urkult.se
'The Phoenix' Relaunch of Hay-on-Fire, Wale's premier Fire Festival
Blaenavon Ironworks ( World Heritage Site) ' Anvil Angel' fire show
Theatre Projects interspersed with commissions, land art, labyrinths, gardens,
sculpture, carnival, clown shows and workshops
Film
1995
'Life of St Patrick' Great Northern Productions, Canada
- wicker giant and druid.
Television
1993
'Pinball Wizard' (Arthurian Epic) - "The Slate" BBC
Wales
1995
'Fire Warrior' - "The Slate" BBC Wales
1996
'Wicker Giant' - Big New Coyote Productions.
Residencies
1996-97
'Giants Rising' Lady Hawkins School, Kington, Herefordshire
(3 months)
- Building three wicker giants and lanterns
- Leading community and student workshops
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