About me:
Janice is a student of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche and is a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. She can be heard on this page chanting the 'Medicine Buddha Mantra' (along with the English soprano Diane Sutherland and Australian singer J P Gilius)from the CD 'AWAKENED STATE' co/created with Belgian composer Bruno Libert.
Janice was the vocal coach on Film Director, Gillian Armstrong’s ‘Starstruck’ and for the Griffin Theatre Comapny and Sydney Theatre Company’s productions of Timothy Daly’s award winning play ‘Kafka Dances’ starring Cate Blanchett.
Janice is a vocal coach/composer/sound designer and script editor and has worked as a dramaturge on numerous theatre productions including Timothy Daly's 'Derrida in Love', 'Complicity'- 'Livingstone' and for ABC TV 'Waiting for Jack Shadow'. She has worked as a script assessor for ‘The Australian National Playwrights Association’ as well as for ‘Playworks’ and ABC Radio Drama. Janice's theatre productions include Harald Mueller's 'Deathraft', Bertolt Brecht's 'Saint Joan and the Stockyards' - Maria Irene Fornes 'Abingdon Square' and 'Conduct of Life', Diana Raznovich's 'Personal Belongings.'
From 1964 Janice was one of the leading figures in Australian pop music. She has worked with Johnny O’Keefe, Col Joy & the Joye Boys, The Easybeats, Cold Chisel, Sammy Davis Jnr, Bobby Day, George Chakaris (West Side Story) Lesley Gore, Billy Preston, Shirley Bassey, The Hollies - Lou Rawls, Trini Lopez, The Four Tops, The Three Degrees, Phil Silvers. In the UK she worked on recordings, concerts and TV. with Cliff Richard, Olivia Newton John, Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Cleo Laine and Frankie Miller. With Glenn Shorrock in the acclaimed 12-piece progressive rock band ‘Esperanto Rock Orchestra'. In Australia she's recorded with Cold Chisel, Billy Thorpe, Alison MacCallum, Kevin Johnston, Mike McClelland, John Robinson, John English,Anne Kirkpatrick.
In 1979 Janice received an Australia Council for the Arts grant to study contemporary vocal techniques for the singer/actor. In the USA she studied with Jeanne Lee, Carmine Carouso and attend Jamie Abersold Jazz Clinics. In the UK, she attended a workshop at the RSC with Cicely Berry, and studied with Norma Winstone and Michael Garrick at Wavendon Allmusic Plan. Janice also attended classes with Peter Ind in London. African/American jazz singer and educator Jeanne Lee left a deep and lasting impression on Janice and on return to Australia she became a member of 'Toe Truck Theatre Company (Theatre in Education. Janice was invited to teach voice techniques at at NIDA, The Performance Space 'Voice in Performance',The Actors Centre, Entracte Theatre Company, One Extra Dance Company, Sidetrack Theatre Company, Meryl Tankard, Colin Offord and Leisa Shelton. The Actors Centre, City Acting Studio, Drama Action, Griffin Theatre Company, Janice Breen School of Dancing, Nectar (Therapy through the Arts), Nimrod Teachers Workshop(Adolescent Unit RPA Hospital), Spoleto Fringe Festival, SUDS (Sydney University Drama Society), SWIM (founding member/teacher Sydney Women in Jazz),Theatre of the Deaf, The Drama Studio (principal voice teacher), The Sydney Acting School, The Sydney Performing Arts Centre.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Those who are wise and compassionate...and particularly Daido Roshi!!
Dharma Discourses by Daido Roshi
Affluenza, True Dharma Eye, Case 36
It’s important to understand that the transmission of the dharma is not meant to create another belief system. Neither belief nor knowledge are strong enough to cut through delusion, to transform one’s life. The truth must be realized. It must be made real, because realization is transformative. And it’s that realization that takes place between the teacher and the student. The transmission is simply an acknowledgement of that fact. Upon his own enlightenment, the Buddha said, “I and all sentient beings enter the Way.” He was confirming the fact that each one of us is already perfect and complete, lacking nothing. That being the case, how could there be a transmission from A to B, from teacher to student?
http://www.mro.org/zmm/teachings/discourses.php
Comments
Jul 7 2009 2:52 AM
hope you are well ...stay warm!!....
brrrr...not happy with winter this year at all!!
Jul 4 2009 6:30 AM
Just got back from UZ.
Wonderful, music filled trip.
Stay warm,
Jack
Jul 1 2009 11:07 PM
Jun 1 2009 9:13 AM
Lovex
May 29 2009 12:19 AM
Hi Jan, Yet, Another baby squirrel in need of a little help from us humans. Nice happy ending on this video. Yea!!! These teens were quick thinking and just great. Peace and Happiness in the Land of OZ. Love, Lou and Eva
May 25 2009 7:37 PM
May 17 2009 12:37 PM
Body: ancient cultures as “The Glicening One”, the dragon of chaotic salt waters. The light from the Sun illuminated this planet's water which gave it a glow that rivaled the Sun's own ... philosopher who brought us the sleeper hit "Esoteric Agenda", unveils his new work, Kymatica! Kymatica ... a powerful documentary you need to see!
Watch the whole documentary here ... love and light always ... cal
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6736722752013377089&ei=IA2GSaW1F4nWqQK_8pzxCg&q=kymatica&hl=en&emb=1
May 17 2009 7:53 AM
May 13 2009 12:39 PM
Thanks for remembering my birthday...and the wishes...
I worked a 12 hour day ...a TvC for SBS TV so didn't really see much of the day!!! still one year wiser...
Am off to Hong Kong early June with the family to celebrate Mum's 80th Birthday...
so looking forward to a bit of a holiday so to speak!
Hope you are well and happy
cheers Suexx
May 11 2009 10:35 AM
Apr 25 2009 5:08 PM
Apr 28 2009 11:03 AM
May 1 2009 12:24 PM
Bring flowers of the fairest
Bring flowers of the rarest
From garden and woodland
And hillside and vale
Our full hearts are swelling
Our Glad voices telling
The praise of the loveliest
Rose of the vale
O Mary! we crown thee with blossoms today
Queen of the Angels, Queen of the May
O Mary! we crown thee with blossoms today
Queen of the Angels, Queen of the May
May 1 2009 6:16 PM
Apr 20 2009 11:01 AM
“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine Kind words and kind deeds”
Apr 22 2009 10:31 AM
Apr 16 2009 11:36 AM
If you look for the truth outside yourself,
It gets farther and farther away.
Today walking alone, I meet it everywhere I step.
It is the same as me, yet I am not it.
Only if you understand it in this way
Will you merge with the way things are.
Apr 12 2009 8:34 AM
i trust you're enjoying easter..heres some nostalgia for you
~xp
Apr 11 2009 11:34 AM
new tracks for spring
Apr 10 2009 9:33 AM
Hi Jan, We are starting to thaw out here in NY. Now thats something to sing about.lol Peace and endless Blessings to you OUR Dear Friend. XOXOXO Lou and Eva
Apr 7 2009 3:28 PM
Apr 4 2009 3:15 PM
Apr 4 2009 1:17 PM
the way I'd like to do.
So brew yourself a cup of tea,
I'll think of you, you think of me.
Apr 3 2009 12:26 PM
Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow,
The sunset hangs on a cloud;
A golden storm of glittering sheaves,
Of fair and frail and fluttering leaves,
The wild wind blows in a cloud.
Hark to a voice that is calling
To my heart in the voice of the wind:
My heart is weary and sad and alone,
For its dreams like the fluttering leaves have gone, And why should I stay behind?
Apr 3 2009 2:08 AM
Great to hear from you!
It's been awhile. I hope things are well with you in the wonderful land down under.
Blessings to you,
Larry