Whitney Museum of American Art, September 2024, 388 pp. If youā€™ve seen any photographs of the choreographer Alvin Ailey (1931ā€“89), it is quite likely that one of them was by Jack Mitchell, whose archive of Ailey photography (now at the Smithsonianā€™s National Museum of African American History and Culture) includes

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Alexey Brodovitch. The Sylphs (Les Sylphides), 1935ā€“37. Art Institute of Chicago. Purchased with funds provided by Karen and Jim Frank. Image courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY. In the go-go 1980s, the last decade when print magazines in the US rode high, the last decade before

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Graham and Ted Shawn in Shawnā€™s duet, MalaguenĢƒa, 1921. Photograph by Albert Witzel. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, the New York Public Library. Martha Graham (1894ā€“1991), whose dancesā€”and the evolving technique for how to perform themā€”dramatically upended what audiences expected from theatrical dancing, did not identify as a choreographer. She was

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, APRIL 2022, 688 PP.Bronislava Nijinska and Valslav Nijinsky in L’AprĆØs-midi d’un faune, 1912. BRONISLAVA NIJINSKA (1891-1972) first made her mark as the kid sister and muse of the famous dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky. Nijinsky, the ā€œGod of Dance,ā€ was a troubled geniusāŽÆhis original works include some

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