Catching the Moment with Paul Kolnik
For nearly 50 years the legendary dance photographer, Paul Kolnik, helped create the visual identity of the New York City Ballet.
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Smuin is an unusual company. It was founded by former San Francisco Ballet co-director Michael Smuin in 1994, about a decade after San Francisco Ballet’s board declined to name him the company’s next director. For its first fifteen years, the new eponymous troupe mainly danced Smuin’s over-the-top theatrical spectacles, like “Zorro!” and “Carmina Burana.” When Smuin died suddenly in 2007, his longtime muse Celia Fushille became artistic director. She has continued to feed the audience the hammier Smuin spectacles they love, but she has also considerably stretched the repertory with the addition of works by Trey McIntyre, Stanton Welch, and James Kudelka. The latest addition to this roster, after two years of Covid delay, is Cuban choreographer Osnel Delgado. His premiere “The Turntable” challenged both the Smuin dancers and their audience, on a program that suggests the company’s greatest opportunity may lie in developing a more spontaneous relationship to music.
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Terez Dean Orr and Tessa Barbour in Osnel Delgado's “The Turntable” for Smuin. Photograph by Chris Hardy
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For nearly 50 years the legendary dance photographer, Paul Kolnik, helped create the visual identity of the New York City Ballet.
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