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"Long before I started to photograph dancers, I always tried to direct my images, no matter what the subject, to dance. What I sought was for the viewers eye to move through the photograph - to follow a rhythm, sometimes 4/4 time, but more often odd time signatures, creating an asymmetrical journey full of turns and leaps.
Through my photographing dance and then more recently to movement of water, I find excitement and joy in the intersection of their common energies."
Bob Emmott
 Schoodic Surf 2004 |
 Morning/Machias Seal Island 2006 |
 Fundy Fog 2006 |
 North Head Harbor, Grand Manan 2006 |
 Coastal Maine Fingers 2004 |
 Dark Energy/Roques Bluff 2004 |
 Maine Flow 2006 |
 Nova Scotia-Action 2003 |
 Maine Tide Pool 2004 |
 Breathless,Still 2005 |
 Patient Spider Jump 2004 |
 Jeanne Ruddy Out of the Mist... 2004 |
 Red 2002 |
 Joy 2006 |
 Wetland Crabs 2006 |
My interest in photographing dance began in 1989 when I became a board member and later board president of Terry Beck Dance Troupe. Photographing their rehearsals opened a window into this exciting world of expression through movement. It collided with my own work of capturing the energy
I first worked with Jeanne Ruddy in 2000 during her premier Philadelphia season and continue to do so. When Jeanne was beginning choreography in 2005 on Breathless, she discovered my work with water and movement which lead to our collaboration for that performance. Images of dancers sinking into water were combined in a video which was projected on the set background. View some of these images.
For Jeanne’s newest work, Oceans 1:Wetlands, I created large images to be used as movable panels during the performance as well as promotional images. It was suggested early on that an exhibit of my photography be held during the Ruddy Dance 2007 season at the Performance Garage in Philadelphia. The exhibit was open to the public one hour before the performances and during intermission to dance patrons. There was a closing reception April 29, 2007 during The Fairmont Arts Crawl.
The images above were in the exhibit and are currently for sale in two editions. To purchase or ask further questions, contact Bob Emmott, 215-925-2773 or bob@emmott.com.
All prints are archival gicleé pigment prints and are signed and numbered in pencil on verso.