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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Listening to John Cage’s “Three Dances (for prepared piano)” is a wonderfully contradictory experience. The composer disrupts our auditory expectations by placing an assortment of small objects such as erasers, screws, and bolts, among the piano strings. A musician plays the piano in the typical manner, but instead of a harmonic tone, we hear more percussive sounds of kettle drums, timpani, xylophone, tin cans, even bells. One can imagine how an artist like Lucinda Childs, who was part of the Judson Dance Theater radicals in the ‘60s, might be attracted to such a composition. The choreographer is perhaps best known for her distinctive work in Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s opera “Einstein on the Beach,” and for “Dance,” based on the geometric grid patterns of artist Sol Le Witt. For her newest work, set to Cage’s prepared piano composition, Childs has chosen to showcase the Gibney Dance Company in New York. The piece will premiere as part of Gibney’s season at the Joyce, May 6–11.
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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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