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"Jenna - Grand Jeté Developpé" is one-of-a-kind signed and numbered edition print from the Esprit de Corps Series I've created in collaboration with some of the world's most-exciting and beautiful ballet dancers. A former professional dancer myself, I created the series to examine the movement of ballet. Each of the photos illustrates one entire movement, from beginning to end, within the language of ballet. The technique and effect you see are not the result of Photoshop, but of an innovative and unique lighting setup. The photos come out of the camera as you see them here. Given that I'm starting from a digital negative, I will actuate a small variation into each original edition print, making every print unique. It will be printed full-bleed. Eventually, I'm going to turn the series into a compendium of the ballet lexicon in art book form. This is your chance to get in on the ground of some amazing work from it. Ballet Note: A grand jeté developpé is performed when the dancer, coming from a run, jumps and draws one leg into a turned out "tuck" underneath her (retiré), and then while in the air, quickly extends that leg while drawing the other leg straight up behind her--finishing high in the air with the legs at a 180 degree angle (as you see in the crisp moment captured in the photo). Grand Jeté Developpé is considered to be one of ballet's signature steps, performed throughout the vast majority of ballets both classical and contemporary, by men and women. Colloquially, it is what is referred to as "splits in the air." Bio Note: Jenna Simon, from Myersville Maryland, is a freelance professional ballet dancer in New York. She dances with DeMa Dance Company and Ballet des Ameriques.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:10 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:15.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a box. Art prints are packaged and shipped by our printing partner.
Ships From:Printing facility in California.
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My name's Jesús and I'm a fine-art and commercial artist who splits my time between Brooklyn and Concord, MA. I studied photography as an unofficial minor at Yale, when I was getting my BA in Political Science. After college, I spent 5.5 years working as a professional contemporary ballet dancer in New York, before transitioning to photography and multi-media art full-time. I strive to create work that is as much about the subject as it is about the medium, always trying to highlight both the strengths and the limitations of the medium I'm working in. Mostly, I work in photography, but increasingly in video, painting and multi-media disciplines. Currently, I'm working primarily as a commercial and editorial photographer of athletes and children. My fine art projects include Esprit de Corps--the ballet photographs you see here, several long term self-portrait projects for which I've been growing my hair for 5 years, a photographic novel about the dangers of nostalgia and a satirical pop-photography website about racial assumptions and stereotypes.
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