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My blogs
- pile of sand
- the book of questions
- Performative Architecture
- Midterm Stagecraft
- Tollefson, Alan ◊ Curriculum Vitae
- UBIK Digital
- The Joe Droppers
- Performance Art and Experimental Theater
- The DORKA's
- THAR232 Intro to Lighting Design
- Thar 120
Blogs I follow
- angelachristinalopez
- Another Screaming Typewriter
- Brimmer Street Theatre Company
- Cute 'N' Stuff
- Detainees
- Fake 'N Bake Blog
- Fluxlist Europe
- Heideggerian Denken
- JKVLOS
- John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV
- kamalsabran blog
- Meg Wolfe Dance Projects
- People for Ethical Treatment of Inanimate Objects
- renee french
- Retired SketchUp Blog
- Sally Walker Walking Down the Street
- sasmatazz
- TA10 Intro to Design Spring 2009
- TEAM POOTY TANG
- The DORKA's
- The Ian Picco Theatre Experiment
- The Mad Patterns
- The Six Dames
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Theater: Technical Director |
| Location | Los Angeles, Ca, United States |
| Introduction | Alan Tollefson has been Technical Director, Properties Master, Master Carpenter, and Scenic Designer for Sacramento Theater Company and B Street Theater, and Scenic Designer for Vista Players, Synergy Stage, and California Stage, all in Sacramento. A recent transplant from northern California, Alan earned an MFA in digital art and new media at University of California, Santa Cruz and a BFA studying performance art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. At UCSC he was Master Carpenter in the Theater Arts Department, where he also taught classes in design, technical theater and drafting; he also taught technical theater at Sacramento City College. In 2007 Alan received a research grant from the History of Art and Visual Culture Department University of California Santa Cruz Presidential Chair Fund to support his graduate research in performative technology; he was also a UCSC Porter Fellows Award recipient. Alan received an Artists in Education Grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was Artist in Residence at Harriet Tubman School, Newark, NJ. |
| Interests | Theater, Performance Art, Dance, Butoh, Haiku, Video, Installation Art, Conceptual Art, Philosophy, Zen, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Existentialism, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Heidegger, Ricoeur, Nishida, Barthes, Sontag, ucsc, ta10, intro to design |
| Favorite Movies | Fitzcaraldo, Roshomon, The Trial, L'Eclisse, Tokyo Drifter, Aguierre, F is for Fake, Kagamusha |
| Favorite Music | Sun Ra, John Zorn, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Pharoh Sanders, Joey Baron, Bill Frisell, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Jamie Lidell, !!!, Fat Boy Slim, R.E.M., Decemberists, Skraelings, We Must Be Astronauts of Love, Raquel, Phump, KSPB, WFMU, WPRB, KDVS |
| Favorite Books | 0826478425, 1568980906, 023106750X, 1556708505 |