Love colour

Colourlovers is a hoot!

Upload a photo, choose hex colours to create a palette, choose and colour a pattern template with your unique palette, then publish all  – and immediately get an audience viewing your work. All took less than 1/2 hour!

The Colourlovers site has lots of free tools, blogs, groups and communities. It makes seamless connections to other social media. When you set up your own profile and start making colours, palettes and patterns you get immediate feedback from people who view, comment on and use your work.

Here’s my latest palette translated into a paisley pattern. The palette was inspired by the one of the cloud photos on my blog page Things that inspire.

Gericault_sky
Color by COLOURlovers

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Vector Patterns by COLOURlovers

Ballet Sycophantes

Ballet Sycophantes
Vicki, Emma and Tasha feature in this shot from Ballet Sycophantes

From 1989 to 1997 I worked collaboratively with students in my dance ensembles to create contemporary and jazz works which we performed at regional and state dance festivals. I owe so much of the success of these works to the spirit of the dancers – Donna, Vicki, Kylie F, Lara, Belynda, Tasha, Paul, Sophie, Tiffany, Kylie C, Elisa, Kelly and Elizabeth – just to name a few. So many others were instrumental in musicals and Rock Eisteddfods, but that is for another post.

Ballet Sycophantes was one of my favourite works, not least because of the bum wiggle which (if memory serves correctly) was included in the dance after Tasha got bored and was doing her own impro to the music (Ode to Joy), throwing in her bum wiggles to the music. That moment shifted the whole concept to a parody, which was well-recieved by audiences.