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Finis: Triangles & Light

August 31, 2011 by 4dancers

Photo by Christopher Duggan

by Christopher Duggan

This monthly contribution will highlight an image I’ve made or perhaps an image I love by another photographer. I’ll discuss how I made the image, what the purpose of it was, why I love it or maybe some mistakes I made trying to make it. I’m always open to questions, comments and ideas.

Let’s begin with an image I simply love. It’s Crystal Pite’s Kidd Pivot from the company’s performance of Dark Matters this summer at Jacob’s Pillow. I’m drawn to the dramatic light and the triangles. The shadow, the symmetry, the muscles in his legs. It’s a beautiful moment. He looks so still. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Finis Tagged With: crystal pite, dance photographer, dance photography, dark matters, jacob's pillow, kidd pivot, nel shelby, new york dance photographer

10 Questions With…Christopher Duggan

August 25, 2011 by 4dancers

Christopher Duggan, Photo by Julia Newman

Today on 10 Questions With… I would like to welcome another new contributor to the blog–Christopher Duggan. Christopher is a dance photographer (and more, as you will see below) and he will be sharing some of his work with us the last day of every month here on 4dancers. The series will be titled simply, “Finis”. Join us this month on the 31st for the first installment, and in the meantime, get to know Christopher a little better…

1.      Can you tell readers a bit about your background and how you got started in photography?

I got started in photography when I was 25 and working in a finance job.  My friend from college was a photography enthusiast, took me to buy my very first camera and got me signed up for Intro to Photography at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. I loved it. I was learning the basics, developing film and making black and white prints.  It was the first time I expressed myself as a visual artist.

2.      How did you wind up doing dance photography?

I came into photographing dancers through my wife, Nel Shelby.  She was a dancer, and since 2001, she’s been serving the dance community by way of creating dance film and documenting dance performance.  I think it was in 2004 when I accompanied Nel on a performance shoot and asked if the choreographer would mind if I could sit on the side and shoot  some pictures. Of course they said yes.  I shot a whole bunch of images and caught one moment that I absolutely loved. Then I was hooked.

I graduated from SUNY Geneso with a BA in Theater, and because I loved being on stage and the adrenaline rush of putting up a show, it only seemed natural to do photography in that space. I really admire dancers. I love their bodies. The art they produce is unlike any other.

3.      What are you currently doing in dance photography?

I am the Festival Photographer at Jacob’s Pillow and have been working in this capacity since 2006.  My wife, Nel, is the Videographer there and she has a lot of dance clients in New York City, too.  She and I work together often documenting performance, creating edited marketing videos, and working with choregraphers and dance companies to create what they need to market themselves with photography and films.

4.      Do you have a “philosophy” regarding your dance photography that you can share? [Read more…]

Filed Under: 10 Questions With..., Finis Tagged With: christopher duggan, dance photographer, dance photography, jacob's pillow, nel shelby

Coming Up On 4dancers…

August 14, 2011 by 4dancers

From time to time I like to do a little preview of things that will be coming up on 4dancers, and this week I have a lot to share! In addition to the new column we have “The Business of Dance” by Lizzie Leopold, we are also adding two new features in the upcoming weeks….

Join us for “Finis” – a new monthly column that will feature a dance photo at the end of the month, and “Music & Dance” – a column that will highlight a composer/producer’s take on the relationship between sound and movement. You’ll be meeting both of the new contributors soon in our “10 Questions With…” series. And good news for those of you who have enjoyed our SYTYCD contributor, Kimberly Peterson’s writing…she’ll be staying on to write more for 4dancers on other topics…

Also–look for more interviews (on Mondays) and dance music reviews (on Wednesdays) as we finish up the summer and settle into fall. I am going to be taking more time to work on this blog, so expect to see more content overall as we take 4dancers to the next level.

Let us know if there is something you’d like to hear more about, and in the meantime, we’d just like to thank you for taking the time to visit. If you haven’t yet taken the time to link up with us on Facebook and Twitter why not join us now? There’s going to be a lot going on!

Filed Under: Finis, Music & Dance, SYTYCD, The Business Of Dance Tagged With: dance music reviews, dance photography, kimberly peterson, lizzie leopold, music and dance, sytycd, the business of dance

I’ve Never Seen It Quite That Way – Leopold Group Meets Photographer Arn Klein

July 9, 2011 by 4dancers

By Lizzie Leopold

Photo by Arn Klein

For a long time I was a rabid supporter of liveness, a performance purist.  Dance happens on the stage, audience and dancer sharing space and time, communicating body to body.

Then I met Arn Klein.  I was in a situation that lots of young choreographers find themselves in.  I needed to save some money.  I was premiering a new work and needed some press photos but couldn’t afford to hire anyone.  In a last ditch effort, I blindly emailed the Chicago Photography Center – a former neighbor of ours when we were in residence at the Lakeview YMCA.

I introduced myself and explained simply that I was looking for someone, anyone, who might be interested in taking photographs of dance.  My email was forwarded onto their instructors and in a week I had a response.

Arn Klein first visited our rehearsal in January.  We talked briefly about trying to capture movement within the frame, as overly posed dance photographs are a personal pet peeve.  I’ve seen one too many perfectly placed arabesques, beautiful and boring.  He took the idea and ran with it.

Photo by Arn Klein

The result was an incredible blur of colors, an abstraction and melding of the body and the dance.  For someone who was completely new to dance, he was fearless and unbound.

Session number two was in June, adding photographer Matthew Gregory Hollis to the mix.  He too is an instructor at the Chicago Photography Center and was anxious to explore dance.   The results were night and day.  The photographs are sharp, clean and precise, lit exquisitely.   He seems to have captured the inhale, leaving the photograph full of potential and threatening to dance itself.

It has only been a few short months and we have already taught each other so much.  I continue to learn about the power of the photograph, not simply as a tool for capture but as a dance-maker itself.

Photo credit: Matthew Gregory Hollis and Arn Klein

My preference for live performance comes from the need for suspense and surprise.  Live performance always has an element of “What will happen next?’  It is never the same dance twice.  Arn’s photographs have brought that sense of immediacy and uncertainty to the still picture.  Looking at his pictures show me parts of my choreography that I never knew existed.

In the coming months we will continue to explore choreography through photography and photography through choreography.  The photographs will be shown at the Chicago Photography Center in late fall 2011.   Visit www.leopoldgroup.org for more information and see the photographs.

(Arn Klein: www.picsimage.com)

(Matthew Gregory Hollis: http://theobsessiveeye.blogspot.com)

Filed Under: 4dancers, 4teachers, Editorial Tagged With: arabesque, arn klein, chicago photography center, dance, dance photography, lizzie leopold, matthew gregory hollis, photography

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