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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Beneath a tree also over a century old is where I meet dancer and artist Eileen Kramer, and where the 60-minute loop will end. And it feels fitting, on the heels of her recent death on November 15, 2024, at 110-years-of-age, to start here, at effectively the end of Sue Healey’s screening of On View: Icons. Showing at Dancehouse’s Sylvia Staehli Theatre, from 4pm in the afternoons onwards, as part of the launch of Dance (Lens) Mini the audience is invited to duck into the cool, dark reprieve of the theatre at any time and immerse themselves in a three-channel, cine-portrait of six Australian dance legends.[1] As timing has it, this is where I am to begin. As the familiar strains of the “Blue Danube” waltz lilt “let us dance,” Kramer imparts, “it’s been a long journey, but I don’t care about age, that means nothing to me; I’m more concerned about spirit, and the spirit has no age.”
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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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