Much of life is happenstance but there are the odd synchronicity of moments which this Wombat finds quite delightful.
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| Shane with Image Archive |
Recently working on a dance video and shooting some stills for it, my attention went to the faces of the dancers rather than the general class or movement shot.
There seemed to be in the dancer's concentration the essence of the theatrical or performing experience.
Facing the Music.
Although the "Music" we face in “Wombat Droppings” is of an entirely different and more nation altering order.
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| Ballet Theatre Australia |
The synchronicity was an acquaintance contacting to alert me
that there was to be a “get-together” of those who were either taught by or
worked with the legendary Betty Pounder in theatre productions she choreographed for JC Williamson's theatres over many years.
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| Betty Pounder |
On going to the FB site where the details were, I saw there
were many images from a variety of productions and thought, well, I could probably add a few,
too.
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| Pounder Class |
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| "Funny Girl" |
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| "Fiddler-on-the-Roof" |
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| My Fair Lady |
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| Robin Bailey |
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| My Fair Lady |
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| Fiddler on the Roof |
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| Hayes Gordon-"Tevye" |
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| Jill Perryman- "Funny girl" |
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| MFL |
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| Pounder Class |
Some 260 images later I was a little surprised by the extent of my
early productivity and very gratified by the responses of those seeing the images and who
commented and seemed to appreciate the effort of scanning all these now quite
vintage negs, prints and transparency’s.
As I replied to one comment, It‘s only when there is a filter of time in the
works that you finally see them in the context of their own experience and see value.
It was interesting looking back to my beginnings of "facing
the music" photographically and appreciating its visual development, too.
Wombat
Droppings or Foetid News from Oz Politics.
Joe “Cereal–Toyota-Holden-SPC-Killer”
Hockey is clamping down on debate by suing Fairfax Media over a story about his
fundraising efforts on behalf of the NSW Liberal party. Having nothing to hide
except free speech, Hockey doesn't want any public distraction whilst going about
perpetrating possibly the biggest defrauding of Oz politics when he hands down in conjunction with
the Business Council of Australia’s and
“The-Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe” (IPA), his single budget.
Unprecedented in the selective leaking,
spin, lying, dissimulation, obfuscations and kite-flying over the past month
this “Ugly American” mandated rabble (Liarbril Party) is about to fundamentally alter and cement into
the national ethos for once and for all their conceptually dessicated idea of this country. The shambles they dishonestly but
successfully projected in persuading the electorate to believe that all was Labor's fault, is now
to be tipped over all of us in its full and total vileness.
No longer just a projection their
foetid values will be fully manifest as they are about to swamp this land with legislation
so that every vile notion of free market capitalism can be given free rein without restraint.
The Reign of the Reactionary
Aspirational Bogan is here.
Gone, will be any pretence of the notion
of fair play and egalitarianism.
Gone, will be universal healthcare.
Gone, will be access to education for
all.
Gone, will be the effectiveness of our only public broadcaster.
Gone, will be the effectiveness of our only public broadcaster.
These unimaginative Liarbrils have for years have been
chipping away at these pillars which have made Australia a noted leader and by drawing closer to the right–wing of American “Tea-Party” politics they now see
their opportunity to smash any of the remaining social contracts in preference for
the “Free-Market" insanity that in the main caused
the Global Financial Crisis.
They will relentlessly bullshit the
public through the right-wing, main-stream media and swamp the ABC with
mendacious IPA clones (similar to the unbalanced coverage of Mandy “Il Patrone”
Vanstone’s 10 minute free kick t’other night on “7.30” with Sarah “Rapportfurerin”
Ferguson) and those other paragons of truth and civility,
“Blot-on-the-Landscape”, Alan ”Bondi” and “London Toilet Fame” Jones and other
similar shock-jock low-lives.
“We all have to do the Heavy Lifting,”
says the man who has doubled the deficit by himself in six months, whilst
single-handedly obliterating much of the country’s manufacturing.
“The Age of Entitlement is Over,” says
the man whose party it seems is the biggest, most dishonest, slush-fund,
paper-bag-wielding bunch of spivs we have ever seen whilst preparing at the same
time to rip payments away from young people with disabilities…a man who thinks wind-farms
are unattractive and coal mines, cool.
We are entering the abyss of a new Dark
Age.
John Donne wrote,
"No man is an island,
entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well
as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own
were:
any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind,
and therefore never send to
know for whom the bells tolls;
it tolls for thee."
The Liarbrils and their moronic IPA
lickspittles have yet to get up to speed with this C17th social lesson.
It strikes me that when a Government rules
for a plutocracy and not the people then its promulgations have validity only
for the plutocracy and can be ignored by the people.
Cheers Possums,
Shane
