“He didn’t make you feel like you were an object being photographed. He just put on the music and you went through choreography. You felt like you were dancing the ballet for him.” —Gelsey Kirkland |
| Gelsey Kirkland and Ivan Nagy in "Leaves are Fading", photo credits Max Waldman. This article caught my eye because this photo is on the GKA SI tee shirt. |
"Famously grainy and elegant, Max Waldman’s photographs of dancers bring back the decade of the “dance boom”: the 1970s. But they are equally compelling now (in our current dance boom). We see the sweep of the movement and it’s no longer frozen in time. We can almost feel the flow of the fabric and smell the sweat. The dancers are very real and yet somehow idealized too—each one luminous in his or her individuality. Waldman could depict grandeur as well as grit, sweetness as well as melancholy. Whether it’s ballet or modern, a portrait or a pas de deux, a nobility of spirit emanates from each image.
We bring you a few such “accidents,” along with quotes from some of the iconic dancers he photographed as they look back at the experience. And if you want to know more about Waldman’s famous images, go to www.maxwaldman.com."
Gelsey Kirkland and Ivan Nagy in Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet.
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