Carolina Ballet's The Nutcracker

Carolina Ballet is currently staging a completely reworked version of The Nutcracker. This is the first time for about 10 years that a full dress rehearsal has been held in order to update the photo portfolio. We took over 2000 images at the dress and are busy working through them now for Carolina Ballet to use in future publicity materials. Due to popular demand here's a few preview shots for viewing over the Christmas holiday.

Alicia Fabry as the Toy Sugar Plum

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Carolina Ballet is currently staging George Balanchine's choreographed version of  Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Performances run from May 19-22 at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. Here's a few samplers taken during the dress rehearsal. Equipment: Olympus E-3, Zuiko 35-100mm f2, tripod.

Lilyan Vigo as Titania and Marcelo Martinez as her Cavalier

Aussie Times

Here's an advertisement that I designed for the Australian Shepherd Health & Genetics Institute. It's in the March - April 2011 edition of the 'Aussie Times' and will appear in one or two other journals later in the year. It's good to be able to contribute to a worthy cause!

The Ugly Duckling



The Ugly Duckling is currently being performed by Carolina Ballet at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh. This a fast moving and colorful interpretation of Hans Christian Anderson's classic ably choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett. Here's a few preview shots taken during the dress rehearsal.

 

 

The far from ugly Lara O'Brien plays the Ugly Duckling. Here she's supported by Gobbledigook (Richard Krusch) and Duckling (Nikolai Smirnov) as she finds her feet