Dance Ink, Photographs - Softcover

Dalva, Nancy; Miller, J. Abbott; Tarr, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811818551 ISBN 13: 9780811818551

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 1997

Synopsis

A dynamic celebration of contemporary dance, "Dance Ink: Photographs" features work by some of the finest photographers in the world. These provocative images -- of dancers, choreographers, and performance artists -- were conceived as a duet between artist and photographer, forming a dialogue that plays out in the pages of this extraordinary book. A series of intimate, beautifully written essays on five key choreographers who have shaped contemporary dance -- Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Tyla Tharp, Trisha Brown, and Mark Morris -- lend insight into the distinctive style and personality of each artist.

About this title

From the Author

A bit about the essays in this beautiful photo book.
I hope that the essays in this book will clarify, intensify, and enlarge the pleasure people take in seeing, and thinking about, dance. Set among the many wonderful photographs of a panoply of contemporary performers are five individual essays that are, in essence, portraits in words of five master choreographers, : Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Trisha Brown, Twyla Tharp, and Mark Morris. A final essay links them together. I am honored by the enthusiastic reception of our book, and warmed by the notion that Dance Ink: The Photographs is a book that the people who made it and the people who read it share as we would a live performance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811818551
• ISBN 13: 9780811818551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188
• Editor: Miller J. Abbott, Tarr Patsy, Tarr Patricia, Dalva Nancy