Timelines – Dance Portraits

Peggy Jarrell Kaplan, a New York-based photographer who has been making portraits of choreographers for thirty years, will exhibit a selection of photographs based on the theme of time captured and time passing. The exhibition features a selection of dance portraits that relates to this year’’s festival as well as previous editions. Kaplan uses the portrait genre to approach dance obliquely. Her close-up portraits suggest the source of creativity and compressed energies. As an impressive collective portrait of the choreographic world, Kaplan allows us to know the dancer from the dance.

Peggy Jarrell Kaplan’s photographs have been exhibited in international dance festivals, most recently at Tanz Im August and Dublin Dance Festival. Her portraits were selected to be part of Pina Bausch’s 2004 Festival and were included in the Mikhail Baryshnikov White Oak Dance Project’s PASTforward international traveling tour. Her portraits of Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, and underground artists from the Soviet Union have been widely reproduced. Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum in New York.

The French writer, Jean-Marc Adolphe, has written of her work: “In the reciprocal touch of the face and the image, the passion of the portraitist meets the passion of the choreographers”.