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La Reversibilita del Processo [1978]
premiere - Municipal Theater Pistoia, Italy.

Incub/Azione [1979]
premiere - Municipal Theater Pistoia, Italy.

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Teatro Di Ricerca Affettiva [1980-1984]

Il Pozzo di San Patrizio   [1980]
itinerate performance - Florence, Italy.

Sorregersi.Agli Appositi Sostegni  [1981] with Alvin Curran
premiere - Teatro Affrattelamento Florence, Italy.

Breaking  [1982] - duet with Alessandra Palma Di Cesnola 
premiere - Municipal Theater Jesi, Italy.

Circular Ruins [1983] -  duet with Alessandra Palma Di Cesnola
premiere - Brindisi, Italy
 
Cloud Chamber  [1983] 
Solo Performance - premiere - Studio "A"/Florence, Italy.

Net/Work  [1984]
Solo performance - premiere - Punti Verdi Festival/Torino, Italy.

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Cloud Chamber {1985-1998]
- interdisciplinary dance theatre with Boris Gerrets, Desiree Delauney, Jose-Luis Greco

Rapid Eye Movement  [1985] - with Jose-Luis Greco, Jan Burkhardt
Cloud Chamber - premieres - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 
                                                - Springdance Festival/Utrecht.

Drift Expeditions  [1986]
Cloud Chamber - premiere - Bellevue Theater/Amsterdam.

Circumstantial Evidence  [1987]
Cloud Chamber - premieres - Moltkerei Werkstatt Kohl, Negerhalle/Munchen, Aorta/Amsterdam, Hollandsche Manege/Amsterdam,  documenta 8/ Kassel, BRD.

Mise-En-Cadre  [1988-89] 
Cloud Chamber - premieres, location project: foyer Het Muziektheater/Amsterdam,
                           - theater version: Municipal Theater Rotterdam.

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Cloud Chamber Foundation established [1989]
- artistic director

The Burning Of The Great Library  [1990]
premiere - Holland Festival/Statsschouwburg Amsterdam.

Danspaleis Jericho [1990]
Workum/Friesland - direction for Suver Nuver

Borderline Rendezvous  [1992]
premieres - Municipal Theater Rotterdam,
                  - North America - Lincoln Center Out-Of-Doors Festival/ New York.
                  - Location version: Dutch National Railroad locomotive repair workshop/Tilburg.

The Art Of Living  [1993] 
premiere - Rotterdamse Schouwburg. 

Vallust En Hunker [1993]
Oerol/Terschelling - direction for Suver Nuver

Hotels  [1994]
premieres - location version: Gashouder Westergasfabriek/Amsterdam
                  - theater version: Korzo/Den Haag, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Kunstmin/Dordrecht, 
                     Stadstheater/Zoetermeer.

Circus Whitman [1995] 
circustheater production with theater group Suver Nuver and a cast of international
circus artists. Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.

Circus Trilogy {1996-2001)
part 1:
Cirque Intérieur  [1996-97] 
premiere - NDSM Shipyard-building Over Het ij Festival, Amsterdam. 
part 2:
Circustances [1998] 
premiere - Airplane hangar Fokker Airplane Company, Den Haag 750th Anniversary Festival.
part 3:
The PostMillenium Circus [2001]
premiere - Municipal Theater Rotterdam (see DVD 1 – Post Millennium Circus) 

Is That You  [1997] duet project with Susanne Ohmann 
premiere - Korzo Theater, Den Haag.

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Beest [2002]
direction for Suver Nuver - Oerol Festival & Parade Amsterdam, Utrecht, Den Haag, Rotterdam

The Storytelling Body  [2003 – 2004] - 2 week residential workshop with performances with Jim Barnard
- Ibiza Moving Arts & Namaste, Ibiza
- Tel Aviv – Clip Theater

Dream Wave [2003] - collaboration with Phil Mackenzie
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, National Youth Music Theatre 
    performance with movies involving 35 teenage boys

Survivors of the Asphalt Jungle [2003] - collaboration with Phil Mackenzie and Banxi
- International Theatre Festival at Queens, Belfast, Northern Ireland 
   hip hop/theatre performance with movies involving 16 teenagers.

Alice – Through The Looking Glass  [2003]
Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. Collaboration with Phil Mackenzie. Performed by 18 teenage performers. Assistant director & Video Projections.

The KAIN Project [2003] - spoken Word/Music/Video Project - w/Gylan Kain, Jeff Hollie, Jim Barnard
– Winston International, Amsterdam,
- Test-Portal, NDSM 

Just Can’t Get Enough  [2004]
- choreography graduating class DTD/Dance Theater Teachers Department – Theaterschool Amsterdam

Frankensteins  [2004] - collaboration with Phil Mackenzie. Performed by 22 teenage performers.
- Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. 

In My Secret Life  [2004]
- choreography 3rd year DTD/Dance Theater Teachers Department – Theaterschool Amsterdam

VJ Performances [2005]
DJ Club SOL, Club 11, Sugar Factory, Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Bicaennse/VideoLisboa, Lisbon. 

Teenagers Dream [2005] - Voices Of The City - with Jim Barnard, Katie Herman, Leo Kay  
Dance Theater/VJ performance (work-in-progress)

Teenagers Dream [2005] - solo with Susanne Ohmann 
– Risk Festival, Ostadetheater, Amsterdam.

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Voices Of The City Foundation (2006)
A registered foundation dedicated to creating and producing cultural manifestations – theatre, dance, storytelling, cabaret, circus, community art projects, movies, installations and trainings in which people and their stories are central.  

Voices Of The City/Episode I – Teenagers Dream [2006]
Interactive interdisciplinary theater project including live performance, dance, text, video/vj and internet, Night-theater The Sugar Factory, Amsterdam

Voices Of The City/Episode II –SPEED [2006]
Interactive interdisciplinary theater project 
- The Sugar Factory, Amsterdam

Me Too – A Side Show [2006] - solo performance by Ulrike Quade. 
- direction, script, soundtrack & video projections by Ron Bunzl.
premiere - Bellevue Theater, Amsterdam.

Playing The Frames [2007]
Extended Cinema (live video and music) performance project with film composer Bernard Becker & guitarist Eric Daniel.
B&O Festival, Divan du Monde, Paris, France

Voices of the City – Little Lukas Cannot Fly [2007]
Barcelona intercultural dialog portrait, European Fair of Ideas, Barcelona, Spain

Voices of the City – Multiverse (The Diver) (2008)
Storytelling performance with improvised music and projected illustrations with Daniel Küffer (sax), Parks Stickney (harp) and Anna Hartmann (illustrations).
UBS Bank Christmas event, Zurich, Switzerland

Levenslied (2009)
- music theater community art project with 30 people in the Lombok neighborhood in Utrecht, Netherlands. www.wishingwellwest.com – www.voicesofthecity.com/levenslied

TEACHING
Ron Bunzl has been teaching movement, composition and performance skills for more than 20 years.
He has given independent workshops throughout Europe and in Brazil, and has been a guest taught at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Theaterschool) Amsterdam (School for New Dance Development, Theater Dans Docenten/dance theater teachers department), at the Rotterdam Dance Academy. In March/April 2008 invited as guest professorship at the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.

 TRAININGS (2008-2009)
Storytelling Body Trainings: communications skills, empowerment, creativity trainings for managers at Capgemini BV, Utrecht, Netherlands.

2010  –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

CIRC/US 2010
Storytelling based Community Art in which neighborhood people of all ages, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds come together with top professionals to create a fantastic show.

STORYTELLING BODY WORKSHOP ISTANBUL
2 week workshop with amateurs at the Zeytinburnu Cultural Center Istanbul. This workshop is the 1st step in the process to create CIRC/US Istanbul in 2012.

2011 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

CIRC/US ICAF (International Community Art Festival Rotterdam)
- closing event of ICAF (3 April)

2013-14

CIRC/US II - 2nd edition of large scale 
- January 2014

2014-2015
THE STORYTELLING CIRCLE
Workshop series leading to a "new ritual" performance in collaboration with Zinnig Noord (www.zinnignoord.nl). The workshop program is based on the
Art of Storytelling As Life Practice. For the ritual/performance the public is invited to exchange their sight for insight, and is guided in a sensory adventure designed to enhance receptivity and allow them to be touched more deeply by the stories that are told.