Ken Browar & Deborah Ory: Martha Graham Dance Company 100 Years

 MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY: 100 YEARS

INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED PHOTOGRAPHERS
KEN BROWAR AND DEBORAH ORY / NYC DANCE PROJECT
AT LANOUE GALLERY, NOVEMBER 7^TH – DECEMBER 6^TH 

Lanoue Gallery is proud to present the world premiere exhibition of Martha Graham Dance Company: 100 Years, a curated selection of large format photographs by Ken Browar and Deborah Ory from their recently released book of the same name. The artists will be available to meet with collectors at the gallery on Friday, November 7^th from 6 to 8pm. Signed copies of their new book will be available for purchase in the gallery while supplies last.

Photographers and dance enthusiasts, Ken Browar and Deborah Ory, aka NYC Dance Project, won worldwide accolades and praise in 2016 for their first publication, The Art of Movement. The publication featured elite dancers from such esteemed companies as the New York City Ballet, The Martha Graham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Royal Danish Ballet, Boston Ballet, the Royal Ballet, and The Bolshoi Ballet.

In their much anticipated follow up book, The Style of Movement: Fashion & Dance, the husband-and-wife photography team continued to spotlight the world's greatest dancers—from ballet to modern—all captured mid-dance dressed in clothing by celebrated designers such as Dior, Valentino, Oscar de la Renta, vintage Halston, Moschino, and Bill Blass, as well as costumes designed by Martha Graham herself.

Their newest book, Martha Graham Dance Company: 100 Years, celebrates the centennial of the oldest dance company in the United States. Graham's approach to dance and theater revolutionized the art form, and she became recognized as a primal artistic force of the 20th century, alongside Picasso, James Joyce, Stravinsky, and Frank Lloyd Wright. TIME magazine named Martha Graham “Dancer of the Century,” and People magazine named her among the female “Icons of the Century.”

The company’s Artistic Director Janet Eilber writes: “It may surprise people to know that Martha Graham was a great believer in stillness. Though she was recognized as the genius inventor of an entirely new way of moving, Graham was a devotee of stopping time.” That is exactly what renowned photographers Ken Browar and Deborah Ory (NYC Dance Project) have done with this book, capturing Graham’s oeuvre for audiences to enjoy in an entirely new way.

Browar and Ory’s work is a collaboration between both husband and wife, merging their experiences and creative passions to create unique and beautiful portraits of the dance community.  It is also a collaboration with their subjects.  Each shoot is prepared as though it were its own dance production, with attention paid to every detail - movement, lighting and the feeling of each photograph.

NYC Dance Project was created by Ken Browar and Deborah Ory, who live in Brooklyn, NY.  Ken is a renowned fashion/beauty photographer and Deborah brings to the project a background in dance and editorial photography.