Dancing Women

Costas

Description

This photography book features pictures of great female dancers from around the world taken during the author’s fifty-year career.

This book, Dancing Women, is a companion to the Dancing Men book by the same photographer. It contains images of major dancers of both ballet and modern dance companies, such as New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Martha Graham company, the Paul Taylor company, the Mark Morris company, as well as dancers from the Far East.

Costas' archives are part of the Jerome Robbins Dance Collection of the New York City Public Library. Costas has kept the copyright to his work.

Sujets

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Informations

• Publié par: Archway Publishing
• Date de parution: 06 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781665721356
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Copyright © 2022 Costas.

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information about the images is at the end of the book

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ISBN: 978-1-6657-2134-9 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6657-2135-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022906092


Archway Publishing rev. date: 06/17/2022
Some thoughts on dancing women
What does it take to turn a human body into that of a dancer? It takes hard work and a young, pliant anatomy that is aesthetically pleasing. Also needed are ambition and the willingness - no, an actual eagerness - to spend much time at the task. Eating must be rigorously controlled. Not all exercise is beneficial. Some people have likened the life of a dancer to that of a monastic - avoiding friendships, keeping to strict schedules. Luck plays an important role: the absence of illness and accidents. The appearance of ugly genetic factors can ruin a promising dance career, as thoroughly as a car crash. Of course, the talented dancer with a flawed body could focus on teaching, coaching, choreographing. But these careers, too, take special talents, temperaments and training.
The division of labor in dance between the sexes has varied very unequally. In some ages and cultures it has been the male dancer who starred in the eye of the public. That was so in 17 th Century and 18 th Century ballet of the European sort. We still remember the virtuoso men of the Vestris clan. Then, in the 19 th Century, women such as Marie Taglioni and Fanny Elssler took the limelight. Men made a slow comeback to prominence in 20 th Century ballet but, still, their main tasks were lifting and leveraging the women. Eventually, consequent to the sexual revolution, there were even men such as the Trocks, who dressed and danced as women and balanced on point. Even so, the great 20 th Century choreographer George Balanchine was still able to quip that “ballet is woman”. Isn’t that so even now, in the 21 st Century?
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George Jackson

The photographs in this book were taken during performances and rehearsals over more than fifty years.
Unlike a dance studio photographer who has control over the lighting, the camera position, the number of times a dancer performs a certain step, etc., a photographer of performances and rehearsals has control of one thing only: when to press the camera shutter – timing is essential.
Dance photographs stay still so you can look at them as long as you wish. They let you notice details that are difficult to see when the dancers move. Repeated viewings of dance photographs yield new discoveries.
Keeping records is one of my shortcomings: that is why none of the images have dates and some dancers are not identified. Apologies!
I was lucky to receive invaluable support from George Jackson, George Balanchine, Lincoln Kirstein, Karin von Aroldingen, Nancy Reynolds, and Allen Greenberg.
I was also much helped by Makhar Vaziev, Katerina Novikova, Sonya Yadchenko and Yuri Fateev. I will be forever grateful to them.
I also thank you for looking at my photographs - I hope you like them.
Costas

Lucette Aldous and Rudolf Nureyev
“Don Quixote”
The Australian Ballet
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
“Revelations”.
Maria Alexandrova
“The Bright Stream”
The Bolshoi Ballet
Maria Alexandrova
“Don Quixote”
The Bolshoi Ballet
Alicia Alonso
Ballet Nacional de Cuba
American Ballet Theatre
Cynthia Gregory, Martine van Hamel,
Deborah Dobson, Michael Denard
“Apollo”
Nina Ananiashvilli
“Giselle”
The Bolshoi Ballet
Nina Ananiashvilli and Andris Liepa
“Le Corsaire”
The Bolshoi Ballet
Anna Antonicheva
“Spartacus”
The Bolshoi Ballet
Karin von Aroldingen
“Elegy”
PBS “Dance in America”
Merril Ashley coaches Tiler Peck and Jonathan Stafford
“Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto #2”
The Balanchine Foundation
Altynai Asylmuratova, Veronica Part and Vladimir Ponomarev
“Fountain of Bakchisarai”
The Mariinsky Ballet