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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Have they started or are they just practicing?” asks a gentleman sitting in the row behind me. It’s a fair question: students from Rambert School of Ballet nonchalantly execute their own sequences of repeated movements as the audience filters in, taking their seats on all four sides of the vast performance space. Accompanied by jolly live piano, their motions range from traditionally balletic—whipping chainé turns and pointed feet beating at ankles—to the geometric and contemporary—popped heels and off-kilter leans. Wearing a gym-kit-like combination of burgundy football shorts and light pink vest tops, the dancers look as if they could be in class or rehearsal, perfecting movements they will need to execute in the performance to come.
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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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