ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
LYNNE BRADLEY has
worked as a director, choreographer, performer and actor-trainer in
Brisbane and abroad for the past 25 years. In 1992 she founded Zen Zen
Zo Physical Theatre with Simon Woods, and has spent the past 15 years
building Zen Zen Zo into an internationally renowned performance and
training centre.
As a director, choreographer and performer, Lynne has worked on most of the company's productions, including:
Director: Zeitgeist (Brisbane, Edinburgh Fringe, Adelaide Fringe), My Sublime Shadow, Amadeus (Hong Kong), The Tempest (Brisbane & Hong Kong), The Odyssey (QAC/ZZZ), Unleash the Warrior: Body Bootcamp (QAC/ZZZ), Sub-Con Warrior 1, Wicked Bodies (La Boite Theatre/ZZZ), Unleashed (Brisbane & Adelaide Fringe), Steel Flesh (Brisbane Festival),Butoh: The Way of Mud, and Never the Elephant. Her other directorial credits include: QPAC/ZZZ: The Mayne Inheritance; Vegas Nerve: Cooking Up A Princess; TAFE: The Bacchae, Outcasts; UQ: Ubu Rex, Ghost Paths, Manfred; La Boite: Black Chicks Talking.
Movement Director: The Odyssey, The Man Who Sold the World (Brisbane Festival), Oedipus, Macbeth: As Told by the Weird Sisters (Brisbane, Regional QLD & Singapore Youth Festival), Visions of Macbeth, The Marriage of Figaro(Stage X Festival), The Cult of Dionysus (Japan & Brisbane Festival),Galileo, and Those with Lucifer (Guest Choreographer). Other choreography includes: Fractal: The Oresteia; La Boite: A Paper House. Lynne has received awards for her choreography of both Macbeth: As Told by the Weird Sisters and Unleashed, and directing awards for Sub-Con Warrior 1 and Zeitgeist.
Training and Teaching:
Lynne is also a principal instructor specializing in movement and
physical theatre, and has founded a number of Zen Zen Zo's flagship
training programs, including Stomping Ground and the Company Internship. Her
training includes the Suzuki Method, Noh, Nihon Buyo and Butoh, which
she studied intensively whilst living in Japan from 1989-1995, and
again in 1999 (whilst on a Fellowship from the Brisbane City Council).
Her Butoh teachers included founder Kazuo Ohno, Katsura Kan
(Byakko-sha), Iwashita Toru (Sankai Juku), and Maro Akaji
(Dairakudakan). In 1998 she received an Arts QLD professional
development grant to study the Viewpoints with Anne Bogart and the SITI
company in New York, and she and Simon Woods subsequently became the
first teachers of this actor training method in Australia. In
2007, Lynne received a grant to travel to Japan to study and perform
with one the world's largest and oldest Butoh companies, Dairakudakan.
She is also a qualified teacher of Ashtanga Yoga (1st series). Lynne is
currently completing her PhD in the area of Australian Physical
Theatre, and lecturers regularly in Australian universities.
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