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Marion-Valentine’s first love was dance, which for her represented human perfection. When she developed an interest in photography at the age of sixteen, she very soon got in touch with a magazine in order to learn how to capture the art that had bewitched her. Her first dance photographs were published in the magazine La Danse <\/em>in 1957. Since then, she has photographed most of the dance shows staged in Paris, concentrating first on classical dance and then broadening her scope to include all forms of dance.<\/p>\n

The object of this book is to put before the reader the photos that Marion-Valentine herself considers the most dynamic of all the shots she has taken during a forty-year career, the ones that most perfectly seize the instant when a pose is at its most expressive, the movement at its most harmonious.The photos are arranged in the book so as to maintain a certain tension, for instance by juxtaposing pictures of dancers from different schools or from different periods. Photography is by definition the art that manages to capture the fleeting moment, a flashing vision that moves the “watcher” emotionally to the point of wanting to repeat the wonder of his experience. Marion-Valentine finds these revelatory instants of emotion above all in dance shows, when the dancers’ bodies trace perfect, subtle lines in space, when a movement is stretched taut or a leap appears totally effortless for the time it takes a shutter to snap. And of course among these photos are shots of some of the great stars of post-War dance—Rudolf Nureyev, Sylvie Guillem, Nicolas Le Riche and Jorge Donn—and of renowned dance companies, like the Forsythe, B\u00e9jart, or Pina Bausch.<\/p>\n

Marion-Valentine was born in Paris and has been photographing dance in one way or another since the 1950s.<\/p>\n

Daniel Dobbels<\/strong> was born in 1947. After working in the theatre for a time and training as a mime artist, he took up contemporary dance with the DanseTh\u00e9\u00e2tre Exp\u00e9rience company. In addition to his work as a choreographer, he also pursued parallel careers as a writer, art critic, speaker, and dance theorist and historian.<\/p>\n

Manuela Binaghi <\/strong>was born in Milan in 1963 and worked for several years as a journalist for Panorama<\/em>, Lo Specchio<\/em>, Marie-Claire<\/em>, and Carnet<\/em>. She currently contributes dance columns to La Repubblica<\/em>, Tutto Milano<\/em>, La Repubblica delle Donne<\/em>, and Donna Moderna<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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