Momix Ballet | Gli scatti suggestivi di Max Pucciariello e Pedro Arnay

Conosciuta nel mondo intero per le sue opere di eccezionale inventiva e bellezza, Momix è una compagnia di ballerini, diretta dall'americano Moses Pendleton. Sin dalla fondazione ha acquisito grande notorietà per la sua capacità di evocare un mondo di immagini surreali utilizzando il corpo, costumi, attrezzi, luci e giochi d’ombra. Nato dall'ingegno del coreografo Moses Pendleton, questo progetto unisce un gruppo di ballerini-illusionisti che attraverso il loro corpo, giochi di luce e scenografie spettacolari sono in grado di evocare mondi surreali e fantastici. Il nome Momix nasce dalla contrazione di “Moses Mix”, che è il titolo di un assolo ideato da Pendleton per i giochi olimpici del 1980. Nello stesso anno Pendleton fonderà la compagnia appunto chiamata Momix, prendendo ispirazione da Vivaldi e dal suo ciclo delle Quattro Stagioni. Basato su tecniche della modern dance americana, i ballerini si muovono a volte da soli, a volte in gruppo o in coppia, saltano come portati dall'aria, strisciano a terra, si muovono come se fossero un tutt'uno con le scenografie.

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse 1851-1933 | French painter

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse was the son of famous painter and sculptor Albert Carrier-Belleuse 1824-1887. Similarly to his brother Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, he learned his artistic trade from his father. He studied under Alexandre Cabanel and Galland at the École des Beaux-Arts and exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1875. He mastered working with pastels, and was best known for his scenes of the ballet, as well as producing landscapes, historical, and genre works. He exhibited regularly at the Salon and other venues in Paris including the Society of French Artists 1888 and the National Society of Fine Arts 1893-1911. He received an honourable mention for his work in 1887 and a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1889. His work can be found today in many museums across France, including in La Rochelle, Gray and Le Puy.

Trish Biddle | Fashion and Art Déco american painter

American artist Trish Biddle studied at the Dallas Institute of Art, before beginning her career as an illustrator and textile designer. Trish Biddle is published internationally, and is collected around the world. Her process of drawing, painting and designing eventually melded onto canvases, creating romantic images and her unmistakable Art Déco figurative paintings. Her expertise in capturing nature and light creates richly colored, breath-taking canvases. With a well-defined style, broad, romantic strokes and vibrant color, Trish paints figurative, floral, fashion icons and children’s art. She travels the world and enjoys translating her experiences into oil on canvas. Showcasing her sense of design, Trish captures the Art Déco style of fashion, elegance, sophistication and the simplicity of the era. Tamara De Lempicka who defined Art Déco painting as we know it, Argentinean tango dancers and depression era dance marathons have all inspired Trish’s vintage, figurative paintings. The faces are obscured purposely to allow the viewer to identify with the images of the graceful dancers their own romantic notions. Backgrounds are evidence of textile, ironwork and architectural designs extracted from her own designs and travels. Trish currently resides in Westlake Texas.

Edgar Degas 1834-1917 | French impressionist | Ballet dancers

Among the supreme masterpieces of the century are Degas's pictures of the ballet and its dancers. The impulse towards painting the contemporary scene came to him not only from Courbet and Manet but from his friend, the critic Duranty, the exponent of the aesthetics of naturalism. Yet in the particular direction of his tastes and his conception of design he was entirely individual. To study and convey movement was a chosen task, first undertaken on the race course and then in his many pictures of the Opera, viewed from behind the scenes, in the wings, or from the orchestra stalls during a performance.