Saturday Samba

A dancer performs during Brazilian Day festivities held at Hancock Park in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 10, 2011.

Well, That Clears it Up

Mikhail Baryshnikov and Merce Cunningham Talk Dance Photography

I never liked dance photography; it’s very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived. Very few photographers really know how to … it’s just a page in the book. It was not that I hated it, but I didn’t feel it was necessary compared with the real thing. But there were a few photographers — Brodovitch, Himmel, Ilse Bing, Irving Penn — who made me feel it was possible. I wanted the audience to see, to be able to imagine, the movement before and after, not just the frozen moment.

They even mention that the show is at Mark Seliger’s 401 Projects.

If You Know, You Go

Baryshnikov combines dance, photography

The former ballet dancer, who defected to Canada in 1974, says he initially was hesitant to combine the two artistic mediums, the New York Daily News reported Sunday. "I'd never really photographed dance," Baryshnikov said, "because I felt it was kind of too obvious and stupid."

The article seems to hint that there's a show of the work, here in a New York gallery. But they would never be so obvious and stupid as to specify where.