My photographs were featured in a dance performance in Rhinebeck, NY this month!
Choreographer Elaine Colandrea created Venus, A Dance Dedicated to Love's Body, a multimedia dance performance exploring the archetypal journey of a woman's life, and inspired by Boticelli's painting, "The Birth of Venus." Sensuous music, movement, sculpture, and images coaxed and cocooned Venus through her story's arc.
The piece comprised several movements involving unique combinations of dancers, photographs, recorded music, an opera singer, and a violin and viola player. Two movements incorporated my photographs: a healing section in which, through a series of projected photo montages, young Venus awakens through her association with elements of nature, and a second as a series of projected images embedding portions of Boticelli's Venus in images of nature.
Venus was performed at the Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, November 14 and 15, 2009.
The photo montage above was created by Maggie Pickford. My photo is the background. The models were photographed by a different artist.
