Brad Walls Changes Ballet's Point of View
At a Glance
- What
Brad Walls, PASSE
- When
- September 12-14, 2025
- Where
347 Broome Street, Manhattan
- Admission
Free.
- Coverage
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- Details
- What to Know
TheNakedNYC coverage
TheNakedNYC documented the Broome Street installation and its large-scale aerial ballet photographs.
The red gallery placed Walls's geometric and expressive ballet studies in an immersive setting.
Photo Gallery
The overhead viewpoint turns individual bodies into a collective line of motion. Brad Walls / David Courbit
What to Know
Six Months of Production
The project involved 65 dancers and a camera suspended from a 60-foot crane. Spatial marking, choreography, weather planning, and coordination preceded each overhead composition.
Dancers Shape the Images
Participants had connections to New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, the Joffrey Ballet, and Ballet East. Their training supplied precise lines that Walls rearranged for the aerial frame.
Fifty Dancers in One Photograph
The Big One places 50 performers in three concentric rings. The overhead view makes the dancers' separate positions read as one circular arrangement.
A Red Exhibition Environment
Walls and his team covered the temporary venue in deep red. The continuous color provided a setting for monochrome and color photographs that departed from a conventional white-walled gallery.
A Small Takeaway
The exhibition offered 150 handwritten postcards each day, extending the short presentation through objects visitors could keep. The exhibition listing on ArtRabbit, submitted by Maximus Communications, records the dates and venue.
