Wendy Whelan and Gonzalo Garcia in Opus 19/The Dreamer, New York City Ballet, 5/7/10 (photo © 2010 Paul Kolnik)
Who: Paul Kolnik, Wendy Whelan, Linda Murray
What: Works & Process illustrated conversation
Where: Bruno Walter Auditorium, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza
When: Thursday, September 7, free with advance RSVP, 6:00
Why: Chicago native Paul Kolnik saw his first ballet in 1971, at the age of twenty-three, and soon moved to New York City, where he worked as an assistant to New York City Ballet staff photographer Martha Swope before taking his own pictures of the company, under the leadership of cofounding artistic director George Balanchine. In celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of NYCB, Kolnik will sit down for a special Works & Process discussion on September 7 at 6:00 in the Bruno Walter Auditorium with NYCB associate artistic director Wendy Whelan and moderator Linda Murray, NYPL curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Kolnik, who has also extensively photographed Broadway shows and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, has had his work published in such books as New York City Ballet Workout, Dancing to America, The Producers, and Beacon and Call: A Cisterian Monastic Pilgrimage. Admission is free with advance RSVP.
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