 2wice, the multiple
award-winning art and performance magazine, is preparing for a triple-hitter
next month: The publication of the book “Dance 2wice”
by Phaidon Press; the release of 2wice’s new issue “Formal;”
and the opening of “Dance Cards,” an art installation
at the Freida and Roy Furman Gallery at the Walter Reade Theater.
All three are scheduled to happen on April 19.
DANCE 2WICE: Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Twyla
Tharp, Mark Morris, Karole Armitage, Stephen Petronio and the Ballet
Boyz are some of the dance artists who are radically transformed
in “Dance 2wice,” a 160-page book of black & white
and color photographs. The images were taken by some of the world’s
most important photographers who collaborated with the dance artists
to choreograph the erotic, witty, lyrical, unexpected, one-of-a-kind
images that dance across the book’s glossy pages. Most of
the photographs had originally appeared on the pages of 2wice magazine,
which is edited by Patsy Tarr and designed by Abbott Miller, both
of whom are editors of “Dance 2wice.” Dance writer and
critic Nancy Dalva provided the book’s commentary. (See end
of release for background on the editors and on 2wice.)
DANCE CARDS, April 19–June 4: Always on the
lookout for creative ways to bring visibility to dance, Patsy Tarr
came up with the idea of turning photographs of dancers into playing
cards. Her thought is: While you can’t take a dance home with
you or carry it your pocket, you can call up the experience through
card-size photographs. Enlarging on the inspiration is her upcoming
transformation of the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery at the Walter
Reade Theater into a card room in which the dancers’ photographs
have the rounded edges of playing cards. There will be tables laden
with pocket size photographs replicating those on the walls. These
images are selected from the about-to-be-published book “Dance
2wice,” whose 160 sumptuous pages brim with groundbreaking
collaborations between world renown photographers and dance artists.
Among the photographers represented are Josef Astor, Martin Schoeller
and Christian Witkin. Among the dance artists are New York City
Ballet principal Albert Evans, as well as Bart Cook with Maria Calegari,
and Janie Taylor with Sebastien Marcovici. Also on the walls will
be Marjorie Folkman with Rob Besserer, performance artist John Kelly
and London’s Ballet Boyz, as well as Alexandre Proia and David
Parsons.
The exhibition will be open during daily film screenings at the
Walter Reade Theater at 165 West 65th Street. The theater opens
at 12:30pm Monday through Friday and one half-hour before the first
screening on Saturday and Sunday. When there are no evening film
screenings, the theater closes at 6pm. Please call 212-875-5600
or visit the Film Society of Lincoln Center website at www.filmlinc.com
for exact times of screenings.
FORMAL: What does it mean to be formal? And how
has the idea changed from generation to generation? These are some
of the questions that are imaginatively posed–and answered–through
the stunning photography of 2wice’s most recent publication.
Appropriately called “Formal,” the issue creatively
suggests the many–and changing–notions of formality
and manners from the 1930’s and 40’s to the present
through photographs of ballet and vintage and contemporary wedding
photography. The images range from Marlene Dietrich in various tuxedos
to photos of debutantes to couples out for a night at the opera
to portraits of kings and queens. An essay on being a dandy by Pulitzer
Prize-winning writer Andrew Solomon adds another dimension to the
theme, as does the dress and bolero collection of Geoffrey Beene,
some of which were specially commissioned for the issue. And finally,
there are photos by the internationally famous paparazzo Jean Pigozzi
as well as a selection of Magnum photographs of formal events such
as teas. In addition to offering another perspective on the notion
of formal, the photos of students at the Maria Calegari School of
Ballet and present and former members of New York City Ballet also
offer an informal nod to the original Capezio trading cards, which
celebrated famous dance figures in the 1950’s.
ABOUT THE EDITORS:
Patsy Tarr is the founder and editor-in-chief of
2wice magazine and president of the 2wice Arts Foundation, a not-for-profit
organization in New York City that supports art, dance, film and
performance through its publications, as well as through grants
and charitable gifts. She is a member of the board of directors
of the Cunningham Dance Foundation and the Film Society of Lincoln
Center.
Abbott Miller founded the multidisciplinary studio
Design/Writing/Research in 1989 with
Ellen Lupton; he joined Pentagram’s New York office as a partner
in June 1999. He is a contributing editor of Eye magazine and the
co-author of four books including “Design/Writing/Research:
Writing on Graphic Design,” also published by Phaidon Press.
He pioneered the concept of “designer as author,” undertaking
projects in which content and form are developed in a symbiotic
relationship.
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