Opening:
18 February 2017 / 8 pm
Exhibition opened by: Katalin Lőrinc
"The close-up says everything. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.” (Marlon Brando)
New York-based photographer Peggy Jarrell Kaplan has captured historically important images of the choreographers of our era. This exhibition presents portraits of Hungarian and international dance artists made between 1985 and 2016. With her compelling photos of the ...world of dance, Kaplan invites us to get to know the dancer through the dance.
In accordance with the traditions of classical analogue studio photography, Kaplan approaches dance obliquely. Her portraits reflect the distinctive grace and posture of dance, in both playful and serious situations. The photo studio is transformed into a tiny stage, and the resulting 'performance” allows the personal portrait elements that evoke each artist's work to emerge.
"I became interested in the qualities of these artists that inspired and informed their work, the sources of their creativity; and a portrait seemed the best way to get closer to what could not be seen. I also liked that the relationship of the dance artist to his/her creations is the most immediate and direct. In the words of the choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: 'The dancer is both the draughtsman and the pencil.'”
(Peggy Jarrell Kaplan)
Presented by: National Dance Theatre
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