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Monday, March 02, 2015

The Arts Umbrella Dance Company & Ballet Kelowna Teach Old Dog New Tricks


Lesley Telford's Untitled
I was there
Blurs at Art Umbrella Q7
Untitled - LesleyTelford 
Mixed Nuts
The Men/Boys 
Swirls 
A Fine Sunday Afternoon

In these wonderful opportunities given to me by the Arts Umbrella Dance Company to take pictures at their Sunday Performance Series 2015 I am learning that at age 72 I still have some good photographs in my future. This batch, all in colour came from the March 1 program held at Performance Works.  Because the venue is all black walls and floor with theatrical lighting the extreme contrast prevents me from getting the lovely pastel tones I got a few weeks ago at the Q7 studio on 7th Avenue. I opted to shoot the pictures in b+w. But as soon as I saw the start of the Ballet Kelowna dancers n Shawn Hounsell’s Blue I knew I had to use colour. The pictures here are reversed. They start with Lesley Telford’s Untitled (seen here a few weeks ago) with the Arts Umbrella Graduate Level Dancers.

The results may just prove that sometimes you can teach an old dog new tricks.

Lesley Telford's Untitled
Lesley Telford's Untitled