Gravity Games

Still Image from Gravity Games. Jennifer J Holt and Gerry Girouard.

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The fleeting art of choreography can only be approximated by conventional still photography. The images in this collection are drawn from mnartists pages and reflect the range of responses to the standard challenge of dance photography, which is typically answered by images of "decisive moments." The camera offers cross sections of dance, portraits of dancers sliced from the flow of designed movement. In the best cases a photograph implies more than a peak moment of accomplishment, or the apex of a leap; the photograph can offer a sense of past and future, of depth, relationship, and place, that allude to the broad field of sensations a choreographic artist incorporates into his or her work.

Past Event Related to Collection
CHOREOGRAPHIC: IMAGES OF MOTION, a thematic exhibition of work that expands upon the synaesthetic relation between the two media in of this collection, curated by George Slade and featuring the work of Stuart Allen, Bill Cottman, Justin Guariglia, Katy McCormick, Polly Norman, and Sean Smuda, opened at Minnesota Center for Photography on June 17 (with a public reception that evening from 6 to 9 p.m.) and ran to August 16, 2006. Performances in conjunction with the exhibition featured Hijack, The Body Cartography Project, Christopher Schlichting, Karen Sherman, Morgan Thorson, J. Otis Powell!, and Roxane Wallace, along with 4 artist talks--Guariglia and McCormick on Sunday, June 18, 2 p.m., Smuda with dancers on Thursday, June 29, 8 p.m., and Cottman with Powell! and Wallace on Thursday, July 13, 7 p.m. Polly Norman also delivered a talk in conjunction with the exhibition.

Mixed Media, Performance, Photography

• Prom #2, Michael Kennedy
• All That is Solid Melts into Air, Paula Mann
• Tales of the Innocent Maiden, John Munger
• Late Frost, Danial Shapiro
• Slightly Ajar, Miriam Colvin
• III., beth brody
• Add Water & Stir, Janet Skidmore
• Flotsam, Colleen Mullins
• A Moment Before, Danial Shapiro
• Ignudi (The Decorative Nudes), Matt Jenson
• Late Frost, Danial Shapiro
• II., beth brody
• Cooking Session (1995), Matthew Keefe
• Belly Dancer, Michael Kennedy
• I., beth brody
• FUEGO Flamenco presents "Corazon Flamenco" at the Fringe Festival 2001, Colette Illarde
• Fuu Jin Ka - Song of the Wind People, Kats D Fukasawa
• Facet, Matthew Keefe
• A Moment Before, Danial Shapiro
• Mach 9, Matthew Keefe
• A Moment Before, Danial Shapiro
• Gouffe Voce, John Munger
• Gravity Games, Gerry Girouard
• Ignudi (The Decorative Nudes), Matt Jenson
• kina gecesi, Nancy Fetzek-Guzel
• The Cult of Dorian Gray - Duet Excerpt, Gerry Girouard
• Late Frost, Danial Shapiro
• Jackstay, Colleen Mullins
• Portrait Project, Danial Shapiro
• Leylet al-Tarab, Night of Enchantment, Cassandra Shore
• Ponticello, Benjamin Johnson
• Raqs Sharki, Shadia Aboge
• FUEGO Flamenco presents works at the Fringe Festival 2000, Colette Illarde
• Sailor Dance "Yablochko", Nesiyan Tobak
• Shtick, Danial Shapiro
• Stand On Your Man, Shawn McConneloug
• Studio Portrait, Danial Shapiro
• Tiao Wu, null Outrage
• Tremors of Grace, Rosy Simas
• WE, Nesiyan Tobak
• Yildiz Folkdans, Nancy Fetzek-Guzel
• Body Cartography Performance, Shoebox Gallery
• Astronaut, beth brody
• Khusuf al-Qamar, "Eclipse of the Moon", Cassandra Shore
• FUEGO Flamenco presents "Simply...Flamenco", Colette Illarde
• Paquita/ Flower Festival, Brittany Fridenstine
• Swan Dive, Brittany Fridenstine
• Late Frost, Danial Shapiro
• They Fight, Stage Combat School, They Fight, Stage Combat School
• Belay, Colleen Mullins
• sociocorpomembraneousrelocation 2.7.04, Shoebox Gallery
• Gravity Games, Gerry Girouard
• Privileged Vessel, Colleen Mullins
• Choreographic: World Class, Lots of Fun, Jeffrey Kalstrom
• Dance Review: SOLO: Live to Dance/Dance to Live, Natalie Harter
• Shoebox audience watches Mankwe Ndosi perform, Shoebox Gallery
• Just Add Water Performance Company, Janet Skidmore