“Light As Air and Quick As Lightning”
Letter from Abigail Adams to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch. Paris, 20 February, 1785
“The first dance which I saw upon the Stage shoked me, the Dress’es and Beauty of the performers was enchanting, but no sooner did the Dance commence, than I felt my delicacy wounded, and I was ashamed to bee seen to look at them. Girls cloathd in the thinest Silk: and Gauze, with their peticoats short Springing two foot from the floor poising themselves in the air, with their feet flying, and as perfectly shewing their Garters and draws, as tho no peticoat had been worn, was a sight altogether new to me.”
“Their motions are as light as air and as quick as lightning. They balance themselves to astonishment. No description can equal the reality.”
“Shall I speak a Truth and say that repeatedly seeing these Dances has worn of that disgust which I first felt, and that I see them now with pleasure. … The art of dancing is carried to the highest degree of perfection that it is capable of; at the opera.”
Stage Light #74
Cary Ballet Company Tech Rehearsal for “Don Quixote”
Online Galleries Here: Cary Ballet Company 2021 “Spring Works”
Stage Light # 73
Online Galleries Here: Cary Ballet Company 2021 “Spring Works”
Dancer Kali Bartasavich
Cary Ballet Company “2021 Spring Works”
Online Galleries Here: Cary Ballet Company 2021 “Spring Works”
Stage Light #72
Cary Ballet Company Rehearsal for “Spring Works”
Fletcher Theater, Raleigh 16 April 2021
Stage Light #71
Cary Ballet Company Rehearsal for “Spring Works”
Fletcher Theater, Raleigh 16 April 2021
The Windows in Studio A #26
Studio Rehearsal for Cary Ballet Company “Spring Works”
Cary Ballet Conservatory 10 April 2021
Tiny Dancers #4
Yesterday afternoon was life affirming and just wonderful.
Next week, Video vs Audience but in Theater!
Studio Rehearsal for “Spring Works” at Cary Ballet Conservatory 10 April 2021
Photographer Pandemic Therapy
Cary Ballet Company 2018 “Spring Works” Cary Arts Center
Space & Tech Rehearsal 13 March
Matinee Performance – 17 March
Stage Class
Between Matinee and Evening Performances – Cary Ballet Company “2019 Spring Works”
15 March 2019 Cary Arts Center
Before Amazon, FedEx, UPS and USPS!
Cary Ballet Company “Nutcracker” Rehearsal – Cary Arts Center 18 Dec 2019
Deja Vu – Stage Light #57
Dancer Reynu Wood
Tech Rehearsal for Cary Ballet Company “Spring Works”
13 March 2019 Cary Arts Center
Past Perfect II
Rehearsal for Cary Ballet Conservatory’s “Little Match Girl”
Jones Auditorium at Meredith College -17 Dec 2010
Deja Vu – There’s An App For That
Dress Rehearsal “Spring Works” Mixed Repertoire by Cary Ballet Company
Cary Arts Center 15 March 2018
Last Frame
Today, they put up with me fussing about with lights for two hours in head shot sessions. This was the very last image.
First Solo
Dancer Sara Roe “Genevieve”
“The Twelve Dancing Princesses” – Cary Ballet Company Spring Gala
Cary Arts Center 23 March 2012
Only The Beginning
Dancer Sara Roe
Cary Ballet Company Studio Rehearsal “The Little Match Girl”
Cary Ballet Conservatory 11 Dec 2010
Drama Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard
Dancers Hannah Case & Felipe Valentini
Cary Ballet Company 2020 “Spring Works” – Space & Tech Rehearsal Online Gallery
Cary Arts Center 11 March 2020
A Matter of Trust
Dancers Reynu Wood & Joshua O’Connor
Cary Ballet Company 2020 “Spring Works” – Space & Tech Rehearsal Online Gallery
Cary Arts Center 11 March 2020
Dancer Liesl Tauschinger-DempseyTech Rehearsal – Cary Ballet Company’s 2020 “Spring Works”
Dancer Adelia Bourtasenkov
Saturday 14 March 2020 at Cary Arts Center – eTix Here 2 PM 7 PM
Cary Ballet Company – 2020 “Spring Works”
Dancer Sydney Upchurch
Saturday 14 March 2020 at Cary Arts Center – eTix Here 2 PM 7 PM
2020 Cary Ballet Conservatory Calendar – March
Dancer Olivia Sacchetillo
The Exterminator!
2019 Cary Ballet Nutcracker Galleries Are Complete
Niklas Zisk as “Drosselmeyer”
Cary Ballet Company “Nutcracker” Performance – Cary Arts Center 21 Dec 2019
