Impressions from Dance Photography Workshop with Chris Nash
Thursday, 30/08/2012
Great photography workshop with one of the worlds leading dance photographers
Márton Csuzi Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Alja Ferjan and Jan Rozman Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Elizabeth Barker Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Márton Csuzi and Zvonimir Kesić Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Alja Ferjan Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Alja Ferjan and Elizabeth Barker Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Celia Hickey Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Márton Csuzi Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Front@ is the contemporary dance festival taking place this week in Murska Sobota in Slovenia. Besides the different dance performances from artists of different European countries, it has also different workshops, and not only for dancers. I felt very privileged to have Chris Nash, master of dance
photography, coming and giving a two days photo workshop focused on, of course, dance photography.
Chris Nash may be the leading dance photographer in the UK, but he is also a genuine nice guy, which really helped the whole process of learning from this master. First and foremost, we were there to learn some new tricks of the trade and to get the better feel for the (contemporary) dance, but besides that, we got the chance to meet some cool and talented fellow photographers and some very talented young dancers which was just priceless.
Not the mention having Mr. Ewan McGregor (in his "Long Way Down" phase) disguised as very talented Hungarian dancer Márton Csuzi. Just priceless :)
I took a ton of photos in this two days and it will take me some time to sort them out, but I'm posting few ones so you can get some sense of what we were doing there :)
Photographs taken during the workshop will be featured in the The Moving Gallery project at Front@ in Murska Sobota, on August 31st and September 1st.
More info:
Temporalnost drugih
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(zgodovinska) refleksija v gibu, zvoku in besedi
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La Place
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Premiere of a great dance & music performance created by Dalanda Diallo and Maša Kagao Knez and produced by KUD Baobab.
Pot (Path)
Odprta plesna scena, Maribor (Slovenia), 21/06/2022
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Kup kuncev (400 rabbits)
Odprta plesna scena, Maribor (Slovenia), 24/06/2021
30. Odprta plesna scena (30th Open Dance Scene)
Third and the last day of the annual 30. Odprta plesna scena (30th Open dance scene) festival brought the dynamic duo of Marina Abib and Beno Novak with their performance "Kup kuncev" (400 rabbits) which was a pure joy to photograph :)
Plesni utripi mladih
Odprta plesna scena, Maribor (Slovenia), 22/06/2021
30. Odprta plesna scena (30th Open Dance Scene)
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Bodies in Urban Spaces
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Contemporary dance festival
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The Moving Gallery - group photography exhibition plus contemporary dance
Thursday, 30/08/2012
Murska Sobota, August 31st and September 1st 2012
Some of the photos that I took at the recent dance photography workshop with Chris Nash, along with the ones from my fellow photographers, will be shown as part of The Moving Gallery project in the next two days, as part of Front@, contemporary dance festival.
Platforma sodobnega plesa 2011
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Ljubi kruhek
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