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Conrad Atkinson

Eleanor Antin

Alexander Brodsky

Brandon Ballengée

Brodsky & Utkin

Joseph Beuys

Cassils

Keith Cottingham

Nancy Chunn

Eric Dyer

Milena Dopitová

Carl Fudge

Terry Fox

Yishay Garbasz

Cameron Hayes

Christine Hill

Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison

Kelly Heaton

Margaret Harrison

Shih Chieh Huang

Simone Jones

Brian Knep

Komar & Melamid

Peggy Jarrell Kaplan

Vitaly Komar

Kim Levin

McCarren/Fine

Pepón Osorio

The Oakes Twins

Bruce Pearson

Panamarenko

Fredric Riskin

Richard Ross

Diemut Strebe

Edwin Schlossberg

Federico Solmi

Jason Salavon

Todd Siler

Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Sam Van Aken

Allan Wexler

Andy Warhol

Clemens Weiss

Hannah Wilke

Gil Yefman

Contemporary Dance: Portraits of Choreographs 1981-2006

Peggy Jarrell Kaplan

Nov 17 – Dec 21, 2006

Peggy Jarrell Kaplan

Yin Mei, 2002

Description

Kaplan’s collection, an historic archive of choreographers who have influenced the direction of international contemporary dance and an up-to-date record of emerging choreographers, includes postmodern dance from New York (the early Judson Church Theater and their heirs), dance and physical theater from Europe, butoh and new dance from Japan, and Eastern Europe performance.

In choosing to photograph performing artists in the photographer’s studio – a different kind of stage – Kaplan plays upon the tension between feeling and artifice. She uses the portrait genre to approach dance obliquely, conveying qualities related to performance, but not its replication. Each image offers a visual translation of the body, lending a unique and personal identity to each artist’s larger work.