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by Christopher Duggan

I met Mark Stuart of Mark Stuart Dance Theatre a couple years ago when I shot his work at the Dancers Responding to AIDS’ Dance From the Heart performances. It just so happens he came to Jacob’s Pillow that Summer 2011 and we’ve been friends ever since.

This year, Mark Stuart asked me to photograph his dance show STANDARD TIME at the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. My wife Nel did the video documentation of the performance – be on the lookout for the dance video on her Facebook page.

Mark Stuart is hoping to bring STANDARD TIME to Broadway. I photographed his showing last spring, and Nel and I are excited about capturing this show from the beginning and watching it grow.

Contributor Christopher Duggan is a wedding and dance photographer in New York City, the Berkshires and beyond. Duggan has been the Festival Photographer for Jacob’s Pillow Dance since 2006. In this capacity, and as a respected New York-based dance photographer, he has worked with renowned choreographers and performers of international acclaim as well as upstarts in the city’s diverse performance scene.

He photographs dancers in the studio and in performance, for promotional materials, portraits and press, and he often collaborates with his wife, Nel Shelby, and her Manhattan-based dance film and video editing company Nel Shelby Productions (nelshelby.com). Together, they have documented dance at performances from New York City to Vail International Dance Festival.

Christopher Duggan Photography also covers the finest wedding venues in the Metropolitan and Tri-State areas, in Massachusetts and the Berkshires, and frequently travels to destination weddings.

His photographs appear in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Knot, Destination I Do, Photo District News, Boston Globe, Financial Times, Dance Magazine, and Munaluchi Bridal, among other esteemed publications and popular dance and wedding blogs. One of his images of Bruce Springsteen was added to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and his dance photography has been exhibited at The National Museum of Dance and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.

His Natural Light Studio (http://www.christopherduggan.com/portfolio/natural-light-studio-jacobs-pillow-photography/) at Jacob’s Pillow is his most ambitious photography project to date – check out his blog to see more portraits of dance artists in his pop-up photo studio on the Pillow grounds.

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