Monday 27 July 2009

Images of Excellence


I simply had to share this series of mesmerising dance photographs. From Vanity Fair portfolio "A Dance Retrospective," Bodies Swayed to Music.

Dance combines movement and music; its best practitioners add poetry and flair. From Bill T. Jones’s totemic musculature to the Radio City Rockettes’ stylish kicks, Vanity Fair has captured some of the greatest dancers and choreographers ever.

Suzanne Farrell, photographed by Annie Leibovitz. From the March 1987 issue.

Robert La Fosse and Darci Kistler, photographed by Annie Leibovitz. From the June 1990 issue.

Darci Kistler and Peter Martins, photographed by Annie Leibovitz. From the September 1995 issue.

Gelsey Kirkland, right, with dancer Mary Mills Thomas of the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, photographed by Mary Ellen Mark in New York City. From the June 2007 issue.

Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Christina Johnson and Donald Williams, photographed by Ruven Afanador. From the March 1995 issue.

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Eliot Feld, and Damian Woetzel, photographed by Bruce Weber at the Ballet Tech Foundation in the Lawrence A. Wien Center for Dance and Theater in New York. From the January 2004 issue.

Damian Woetzel, photographed by Bruce Weber in Miami, Florida. From the June 2008 issue. Plus: View more photos of Woetzel by Weber.

Christopher Wheeldon, photographed by Bruce Weber in Miami, Florida. From the August 2007 issue. Plus: Read “Christopher Wheeldon’s Leap Year,” and view more photos of Wheeldon by Weber.

Marina Tkachenko, Evgenia Evgrashina, Oksana Marchyk, and Ekaterina Bondarenko, dancers from St. Petersburg’s Vaganova Ballet Academy, photographed by Arthur Elgort. From the September 2006 issue.

American Ballet Theatre stars Ethan Stiefel, Jose Manuel Carreño, Vladimir Malakhov, and Angel Corella, photographed by Annie Leibovitz in New York City. From the December 2002 issue.

Patrick Wolf and the cygnets of the Ballet West, photographed by Tim Walker at the Mar Lodge Estate, in Braemar, Scotland. From the January 2008 issue.

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