Information
New York City Centre
Saturday 27th July 2024
11.00-17.00
Standard Ticket
$260/ £210
From 29st June
Spilt Payment Option
Payment 1 : $112.50 / £90 (by 28th June)
Payment 2 : $112.50 / £90 (by 20th July)
What to Expect
Lead by artist Jack Thomson, this workshop is aimed at photographers who want to develop their relationship with dance, and also for dancers who have a vested interest in photography and wish to deepen their practice in a collaborative, safe and creative environment (limited to 10 photographers for NYC)
This workshop will use the backdrop of NYC streets, as we explore the intersection between movement & photography working with 4 professional dancers.
You will need your own DSLR or mirrorless camera.
Schedule
11.00 -12.15 : Session One - working with Professional Ballet Dancers
12.15-12.30 : Break
12.30-13.30 : Session Two - working with Professional Ballet Dancers
13.30-14.30 : Lunch
14.30- 15.45 : Session Three - working with Professional Contemporary Dancers
15.45 -16.00 : Break
16.00 -17.00 : Session Four - working with Professional contemporary Dancers
Exact Locations and detailed schedule provided prior to the day.
Themes we will be covering
- Perspectives and approaches on capturing movement in a still form.
- Tools to keep dancers/subjects inspired by offering stimulus to provoke their physicality.
- Dance photography as a collaborative act.
- Building a common collaborative language between visual arts and movement.
- Tapping into your own physicality in order to achieve your desired image.
- The body and space/architecture.
The Dancers
Photographers will be collaborating closely with four world class professional dancers throughout the day, in the morning classical ballet dancers and in afternoon two contemporary dancers.
Daphne Lee (Rahway, NJ) has danced with Dance Theatre of Harlem, Alvin Ailey II, Oakland Ballet Company, Collage Dance Collective, and the Black Iris Project Catch her journey on Instagram @daphne732. Daphne is currently in Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway in New York City.
She began her dance training at the Rahway Dance Theatre under the direction of her mother, Ms. Jay Skeete-Lee. She graduated with Honors from the Ailey/Fordham B.F.A program in dance and is a recipient of the Denise Jefferson Scholarship award. Ms. Lee received scholarships to Jacobs Pillow, School of American Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, The Rock School and is a regional gold medal recipient in dance for the NAACP ACT-SO competition and has served as a mentor and judge this past year.
Ms. Lee was also featured in the opening video for the Mrs. Carter World Tour for Beyonce and was featured in a short films and on Hulu “Wu-Tang: American Saga”. Daphne performed worksby George Balanchine, William Forsythe, Amy Seiwart, Benoit Swan- Pouffer, Amy Hall-Gardner and Alonzo King among others and was assistant choreographer to the musical “TheColor Purple” in Milwaukee. She has danced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland and was a cast member in the sixth season of Dance212′s online reality series. Daphne is also an ambassador to major products and companies including Bloch, Gaynor
Minden and Nudebarre. She was also part of the Mike Conley Tribute for the NBA team Memphis Grizzlies.
She even was featured in Elle Magazine, the Village Voice, and the formerMiss Black USA. As an advocate for Multiple Myeloma Cancer, she also hosts the red carpet gala for the International Myeloma Foundation. Lee also holds a scholarship for BIPOC women studying a performing arts degree in college and university
Nando Morland is dancer based in NYC, his credits include...
Broadway: Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, West Side Story.
Immersive: Sleep No More (Boywitch).
National Tours: Wicked (Chistery), Fiddler on the Roof (The Fiddler) .
TV: “Up Here” Hulu. Dance Magazine’s Top 25 to Watch (2019).
Dance Companies: Gallim, Madboots Dance, Rashaun + Silas, Stefanie Batten Bland.
Education: BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch.
About Jack
Born in York, Jack Thomson a multi-disciplinary artist which performance, choreography, film and photography all inform his work.
He studied at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance (in London) and has since performed work by Alexander Whitley, Ohad Narhrin, Justin Peck, Itzik Galili, Blanca Li, Kate Flatt, Richard Chappell, Willi Dorner, Shobana Jeyasingh, Caroline Finn, Wayne McGregor, Maxine Doyle to and he is still working as a performer.
Alongside his performing career Jack has established a career as a photographer, linking his experience of the body & choreography with his knowledge of the camera & image-making. He has create imagery for English National Ballet, Sadlers Wells, Studio Wayne McGregor, Sydney Dance Company, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Gandini Juggling and more arts organisations.
In addition he has been commissioned by Random Acts (Business is Brutal for Channel 4) and New Creatives (We Are Ready Now for BBC arts) to direct and choreography dance for camera. Business is Brutal his first dance work for camera, has been screen in over 50 festivals worldwide and won awards at the Inshadow Film Festival (Lisbon - 2018) for Best Interpretation, and New Renaissance Film Festival ( London - 2018) for Best Art/Artist Led film, it was also Highly commended at the SHOWstudio Fashion film awards in partnership with Harrods (2019) .
For more information contact info@jack-thomson.com
Please note refunds of tickets after 20th July will be 50% of ticket price.
