Saturday 21st July 2018 - Beginner Jazz Class @ SDC , Ryoji Ikeda & Daniel Burden @ Carriageworks

My day starts with a bus ride on the M40 at 9 am to Lang Park again and a walk down to the Wharf Precinct to the current location of the Sydney Dance Company to attend Louie George's Beginner Jazz class at 10 am. He decided to do a disco / 1970s inspired dance class routine today.

After dance class I had a quick shower before having lunch of a vegetarian pesto seeded roll from my favourite German bakery Luneburger @ Town Hall with a piece of crumbed fish with no salt and a wedge of lemon from my favourite seafood shop The Little Fish Shoppe  just  few doors down. (refer previous post shopping in the city part 1). Then off to Breadtop to purchase something called Messy Bun or Messy Bread as it is known at another Asian style bakery named 85 Degrees.

So what is a Messy Bun or Messy Bread? Basically it is a chocolate croissant or danish filled with chocolate topped with chocolate ganache. Yummy!

photos below of what Breadtop has to offer

After lunch I headed by train to Redfern Station before walking to Carriageworks to see the 2 major art installations there - Ryoji Ikeda's Micro Macro  & Daniel Burden's Like Child's Play (Comme un jeu d'enfant).

No time to visit the weekly Saturday markets when I arrived at Carriageworks as they were in the process of packing up for the day at 1 pm closing time. There were still crowds of people around. Even when I left Carriageworks around 3 pm groups of people were still arriving to see the 2 art installations.

I enjoyed both art installations and rate them both 9/10. 

You probably remember a blog I wrote about another Ryoji Ikeda art installation a while back at Mona on one of my trips to Hobart Tasmania. This was just as interesting. If you are going to see it you are required to take off your shoes before you enter and leave them in the corridor. Enter through one of the double theatre doors into a dark room with large 3 dimensional projections. Sit on the floor, stand on the side and just watch and become mesmerized even tranced by the projections as they project in front of you,  over you and across the floor where you sit. Please note that this art installation is unsuitable for young children , anyone with heart ailments, epilepsy or seizures or who are reactive/sensitive to strobing lights, loud sounds and moving bright images in a large dark room with others or who have phobias of these.

photos below and a video uploaded onto YouTube

more photos below ( no trick photography used)

An absolute photographer's paradise today. Back to Town Hall, a quick grocery shop and back on the bus home. End of a busy Saturday.