Hi Everyone, Nicole & Julia here, posting from a MUCH cooler Bundanon. The temperature has dropped about 10 degrees this afternoon, making sleeping a much more pleasant prospect.
Last night didn't get much below 30 degrees, so the residents of the Musicians Cottage (see photo?) decided to sleep al fresco, on the verandah, much as our grandparents would have done in country Australia in the early twentieth century. Danny, Adrian (our visiting choreographer & Pilates instructor), and Nicole braved the mozzies, the enormous flies and the wombats to achieve a much improved night's sleep. We awoke to the sound of the bulls in the lower paddock, Elton & Bruce, bellowing good morning at their girlfriends' in the paddock opposite. They certainly weren't a patch on Elton John and Bruce Springsteen;)
Adrian, who now works for the Sydney Dance Company, has been here chatting about improvisation, in both music and dance, and taking Pilates and stretch classes for us. Very important for musicians bodies (and highly beneficial for all, no matter what profession!). We had a fabulous class last night in the somewhat cooler evening air on the front lawn of Bundanon - a bit like 'Bikram' pilates/yoga, where everything stretched further in the heat!
We farewelled Daniel on Saturday, who explained his PhD research project to us, which involves writing journals and video diaries on our rehearsal and performance process, and have welcomed Kevin today, one of the composers writing for us along the songlines of water. We are very excited about exploring the first draft of this new quartet with him tommorrow.
In between, we thought we might leave you with some fantastic photos Lisa took this afternoon at Bouderee National Park, images of water which seem to be becoming a bit of a theme of our residency
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