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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On a steamy July evening, the arty fashionistas of Bushwick seem remarkably crisp and refreshed, wine spritzers in hand, as they gather for a rare showing by two rock stars of dance at Carvalho Park gallery in Brooklyn. New York City Ballet principal Sara Mearns and postmodern minimalist Jodi Melnick have collaborated twice previously. This week they’ve come together to work with Diana Orving, a Stockholm and Paris-based textile artist, whose amorphous construction of silk organza and jute resembles a jumble of billowing white skirts—or an elaborate web spun by some giant insect—or a skyful of clouds viewed from a ropy hammock. Before the show, observers roam about, mostly keeping to the perimeter of the sculpture, then lean against the walls to wait for Mearns and Melnick to emerge.
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