| The dance photography of Lois Greenfield does not simply record dance itself, but express the concept of time by photography the form of dance performance. She put aside choreography, cooperating with dancers to design some action for the need of photography, capturing the‘transitional moments’between two‘peak moments’during the whole movement, making her works showing a strong dynamic. In common with the imaginative work of the Surrealists, Greenfield’s experiments push the limits of the boundaries of dance and photography and make her photography not to be merely a handmaiden of the dance to archive someone’s work of art. Dance is her materials for her photography. Her study in dance area has no boundaries. Her dance materials involving not only modern dance, ballet, flamenco, Irish Dance, hip-hop, folk dance but also acrobatics, gymnastics and other categories. Some dance companies come and collaborate to Greenfield’s studio every year, such as Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Sydney Dance Company, Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor and the San Francisco Ballet to the younger generation’s Twyla Tharp, Bill.T.Jones/Arnie Zane, Pilobolus and the Parsons Dance Company etc. Greenfield’s dance photography gradually attracts a lot of commercial clients. Because of her interest on all of human actions, her clients come from every area besides dance, while her works are often published in several major fashion magazines in the United States. |
