Photographers Ken Browar and Deborah Ory coax the images from the Paris Opéra Ballet that Edgar Degas painted from American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland for the March 2016 issue of Harpers Bazaar in advance of MOMA's Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty.
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The Washington Post highlights enormous talent of the Washington Ballet dancers on this segment from their Post TV, showing, in gorgeous slow-motion, some of their hardest tricks.
MIT Professor David Gifford and graduate student Adrian Dalca shot he Boston Ballet practicing for the September show Night of Stars in slow-motion and timelapse.
New Beginnings captures Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain filmed at sunrise on the 57th floor terrace of 4 WTC. With the Freedom Tower as backdrop, and two NYC Ballet Principal Dancers, Maria Kowroski and Ask la Cour.
The city of Bratislava (the capital and largest city of Slovakia) was the backdrop for
photographer Benjamin Von Wong shoot with the Slovak National Ballet.
When Dina Johnson and her husband moved to Serbia, it was a "leaving it all behind" move. But she quickly found something to use her impressive publishing industry experience on. She approached the National Theater in Belgrade, proposing to do a portrait project, to result in a photo book.
That photo book is called The Unseen Beauty.
"The main thing was to actually make their portraits, to show how gracious and glamorous they are. Most of them did not have their professional photos taken for many years and I wanted to correct this mistake. I felt so good seeing how happy they were when they saw The Unseen Beauty book. I still get very emotional when I think about it." - Dina Johnson