Ken Browar and Deborah Ory – the husband-and-wife team behind the NYCDance Project – have their second dance photography book coming out next week: The Style of Movement: Fashion and Dance. Their first, which went on to be a best-seller, was The Art of Movement, which came out three years ago. While their particular style remains their signature, the approach is a little … [Read more...] about The Style of Movement: Fashion and Dance – a new book of dance photography from NYC Dance Project
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Julian MacKay – the teenage American ballet dancer making waves in Russia
Julian MacKay at 16 was winning medals at the Sochi and Istanbul competitions when he represented his school, the Bolshoi Academy. At 17 he won the Prix de Lausanne and his Harlequin Floors Scholarship let him spend a year with The Royal Ballet. At 18 he was snapped up as soloist with the Mikhailovsky Ballet and after six months with the company was given his first principal … [Read more...] about Julian MacKay – the teenage American ballet dancer making waves in Russia
Abdiel Cedric Jacobsen answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… dancers’ edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? I began dancing when I was in the womb, taught informally by my mother through the blood memory of her ancestors. My mom is Ivorian - from Côte d'Ivoire - and when we were little kids she would push aside the coffee table in the living room to teach my two older sisters and I West African dances from the Ivory Coast. We started a dance … [Read more...] about Abdiel Cedric Jacobsen answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… dancers’ edition
The Art of Movement – a glorious new book from NYC Dance Project
NYC Dance Project – husband and wife team, Ken Browar and Deborah Ory – have produced some of the most widely circulated images of dance on the internet. Leaps and other gymnastic feats will always be shared and liked more than most, but what makes Browar and Ory’s photos stand out is that they communicate not just movement, but interact with the viewer on a personal and … [Read more...] about The Art of Movement – a glorious new book from NYC Dance Project
18-year-old Julian MacKay becomes a soloist with the Mikhailovsky Ballet
After being introduced to Julian Mackay, and his whole dancing family, three years ago by his sister Maria Sascha Khan - now First Soloist with the Ekaterinburg State Ballet - I have been following the activities of the four siblings with interest. Nadia Khan was recently with the Compañía Nacional de Danza de España but now with the Rome Opera Ballet, and the youngest, … [Read more...] about 18-year-old Julian MacKay becomes a soloist with the Mikhailovsky Ballet