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Performances
American National Ballet
2003-04 Season
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Below are performances I photographed from my first season working with ANB. (Click the date to see return engagements as ANB's official photographer: March 2004, April 2004, June 2004.)
Click on thumbnails below to go to that performance segment.
October 2003
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Lady of the Camellias Music: Chopin, Piano Concerto #4 |
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Unbearable Quandary Music: Miki, Spiritual |
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Symphonic Poem in 6 Music: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons |
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Coercing Virtue Music: Barber, Adagio for Strings |
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The New Tango, "Work in
Progress" Music: Ceasar Garcia, Glass House |
I was invited back to Duluth to photograph ANB again, in March 2004. The company performed six pieces, with a very young female corps in all of them (Armando and one other male danced only in Hamlet). Hamlet was performed under execrable lighting conditions -- I had to boost ISO to 3200, which means the photographs have excessive digital noise. To mask that, I introduced grain into each image. Otherwise, the performances speak for themselves.
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Hamlet |
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The New Tango |
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Equinox |
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Paradise Lost |
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La Morte de L'Oiseau Blanc |
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To the Moon |
Back to Duluth in April. Another imaginative mix. A new choreographer created the second set, A Gift from the Sea, a filmy and darkly colorful piece largely in slow motion. Lighting again was very challenging, so grain (digital noise) is evident in much of the work.
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Unmoved |
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A Gift from the Sea |
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Inner Schism |
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Savage Passion |
The final performance of the season came in June. Four more pieces, including a revisit to the tango, most of which I photographed with a very slow shutter speed, to some good effect. Looks like I'll be back photographing ANB in autumn.
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Othello |
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Degas Watercolors |
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The New Tango |
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InsideOUT |