Lynne's Theatre Notes

 https://www.sydneyartsguide.com.au/instruments-of-dance-the-remarkable-australian-ballet/#more-97602 INSTRUMENTS OF DANCE : THE REMARKABLE AUSTRALIAN BALLET 15 NOVEMBER 2022   LYNNE LANCASTER   LEAVE A COMMENT Instruments of Dance . Amy Harris and Adam Bull in Annealing. Pic Daniel Boud  (4 / 5) A remarkable contemporary triple bill fabulously danced –  a chance to see resident choreographers from three of the world’s top companies respond to scores from modern-day composers working in very different musical fields. The Orchestra under maestro  Daniel Capps  played superbly. The quality of movement throughout was exceptional. Classical ballet technique was taken, deconstructed and reworked, at times quite acrobatically. First up was the remarkable  Obsidian Tear  by  Wayne McGregor  for a cast of nine male dancers.They were mostly bare chested and wore assorted versions of tunic/kilt/baggy pants by disparate designers and curated b...

 https://dancemagazine.com.au/2022/11/sydney-dance-company-dazzles-in-triple-bill-resound/ AUSTRALIAN DANCE REVIEWS Sydney Dance Company dazzles in triple bill ‘Resound’ STEPHANIE LAKE'S 'THE UNIVERSE IS HERE'. PHOTO BY PEDRO GREIG. SHARE   TWEET   SHARE   EMAIL   COMMENTS Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney. 29 October 2022. Sydney Dance Company’s  Resound  is a challenging, thought-provoking triple bill that showcases the superlative dancing of the Sydney Dance Company dancers in a triple bill blending revivals and new works. Ballet technique is used as a base, but taken, developed and reconstructed at times. Choreographically, at certain points, there are tiny fleeting allusions to both the ‘traditional’  Swan Lake  and also Matthew Bourne’s version. The dazzling, streamlined, fluid quality of movement is, at times, rich and luscious, at others, sharp, spiky and staccato.  Rafael Bonachela’s ‘Ocho’. Photo by Pedro Greig. First came Raf...

  https://www.sydneyartsguide.com.au/meg-howrey-theyre-going-to-love-you/#more-97552 MEG HOWREY : THEY’RE GOING TO LOVE YOU 13 NOVEMBER 2022   LYNNE LANCASTER   LEAVE A COMMENT  (4 / 5) Meg Howrey  is a Los Angeles-based writer of fiction and non-fiction.  She was a ballet dancer herself with Joffrey Ballet and the City Ballet of Los Angeles. Drawing on her insider experience, in her novel  THEY’RE GOING TO LOVE YOU  we learn about the ballet world, class and rehearsal and the interconnectedness of the dance world. THEY’RE GOING TO L.OVE YOU  is of small to medium size and not too thick. It is divided into mostly short chapters, each with a title. The plot is as follows :  THEY’RE GOING TO LOVE YOU  opens in New York , where Carlisle Martin aspires to become a professional ballet dancer like her mother Isabel. She only gets to see her father Robert, and his afflicted, distinguished partner James, for a few treasured weeks a year whe...

  As part of the Smartphone Film Festival, I saw two short films – BENEATH THE LONESOME SKY  by  Rob Layton  (4 / 5) Gloriously, luxuriously photographed this is a stunning film set on the island of Skye, north-west Scotland. There are magnificent landscape and beach shots before most of the film being captured by a huge underwater diving camera. Layton  is a lecturer in film at Bond University and is undertaking his PHD using smartphone documentary filmmaking. Layton’s  film opens with a Bob Marley quote and shows us the delicate marine ecology, focusing on some of the small creatures and plants that are required be part of the bottom of the food chain. Some look like wattle, others like huge flowing strips . Plus there are tiny fish , and we meet tiny sea hares , part of the sea slug family in some extraordinary footage. Back on land, we see the establishment of an Ocean School, so the children can learn about preserving the fragile environment. They are ...

  https://www.sydneyartsguide.com.au/magnificent-rebels-by-andrea-wulf/ MAGNIFICENT REBELS : THE FIRST ROMANTICS AND THE INVENTION OF THE SELF 2 NOVEMBER 2022   LYNNE LANCASTER   LEAVE A COMMENT  (4 / 5) This book will probably become a required textbook for university philosophy students, rather than those seeking to know more about the Romantic painters and poets (although yes they are mentioned ). It is of medium size but quite thick (just under five hundred pages). Divided into four parts, Andrea Wulf’s  MAGNIFICENT REBELS  contains a prologue and epilogue, and consists of twenty chapters. A list of dramatis personae and maps are included, as well as illustrations and there is an excellent notes/bibliography and index at the back. It is dynamically written, vividly brings to life the various personalities, and is impeccably researched and revealing in assorted details. Wulf  in her complex yet easy to read tome examines  ‘the Jena set’ and how...

  https://www.sydneyartsguide.com.au/kerry-greenwood-murder-in-williamstown/#more-97242 KERRY GREENWOOD : MURDER IN WILLIAMSTOWN 1 NOVEMBER 2022   LYNNE LANCASTER   LEAVE A COMMENT Hooray! This is the latest, most exciting book by Kerry Greenwood, the twenty second in the series, chronicling the beautiful, sleek, sophisticated, brave,  tempestuous and sometimes possibly scandalous adventures of Phryne Fisher in Melbourne during the 1920’s. The book  is divided into twenty – six chapters and has a prologue and epilogue, author’s note and a bibliography. All our favourite characters of Phryne’s friends/companions are back – eg her lover Lin Chung and his wife Camellia, her sister Eliza and her partner Alice, Dot, Hugh Collins,the Butlers, Jane and Ruth, Tinker, Inspector Jack Robinson,Bert and Cec and Ember and Molly. There is also Jeoffrey Bissett, an inspirational lecturer in English at Melbourne University who Phryne know from past adventures and becomes entang...

 https://www.sydneyartsguide.com.au/traffic-jam-galleries-katherine-wood-and-rebecca-pierce/#more-96815 TRAFFIC JAM GALLERIES : KATHERINE WOOD AND REBECCA PIERCE 19 OCTOBER 2022   LYNNE LANCASTER Rebecca Pierce ‘When The Genies Emerge From The Bottle’. Acrylic paint and ink oil sticks on charcoal on resin on canvas Currently showing at Traffic Jam Galleries are two vibrant, exciting and contrasting solo exhibitions.  Katherine Wood’s  latest exhibition is a superb series of works based on  STILLNESS , meditation and nature. Wood paints in oil and mixed media for this exhibition. It is reflective, pondering the inner self and awareness of nature and who we are and how we deal with life experiences and keep persevering and growing. Who are we really inside to ourselves? Is it enough? The works are not of a specific place or time but express a tumultuous general energy. The works are full of fragile yet volcanic beauty, broiling turbulent landscapes caught between ...