Dancing the Appian Way Ebook
by Jeff Holcombe
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About the Ebook
The Appian Way is an ancient highway, filled with romance, treachery, divine inspiration, merchants, emperors, and now, dancers. This path of stone, dating back to the 4th century BCE, connected the seat of power in Rome with the outlying territories, including such historic Italian cities as Velletri, Terracina, Benevento, Taranto and Brindisi. Dancing the Appian Way is a new interpretation, through the twin perspectives of dance and photography, of the monumental ruins along this roadway and their intersection with modern life.
Dancing the Appian Way is a narrative in the traditional sense, but it also is much more. It represents a novel way of both seeing and seeking. This is the first dance photography book to cover such a long route. It builds an alternative, composite perspective on the localities in its path, dignifying them, transforming them, revealing and provoking them. But above all it celebrates them in all their historic, architectural and natural splendor. This is a great adventure story, conceived in the visceral language of dance and revealed in the complementary vision of photography. Through this choreography of immersion, the commonplace of the landscape is rediscovered and transformed, from familiar to exotic, and the unfamiliar is portrayed as compelling and worthy of our paying a visit.
Dancing the Appian Way is a narrative in the traditional sense, but it also is much more. It represents a novel way of both seeing and seeking. This is the first dance photography book to cover such a long route. It builds an alternative, composite perspective on the localities in its path, dignifying them, transforming them, revealing and provoking them. But above all it celebrates them in all their historic, architectural and natural splendor. This is a great adventure story, conceived in the visceral language of dance and revealed in the complementary vision of photography. Through this choreography of immersion, the commonplace of the landscape is rediscovered and transformed, from familiar to exotic, and the unfamiliar is portrayed as compelling and worthy of our paying a visit.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
- Version Fixed-layout ebook, 224 pgs
- Publish Date: Nov 11, 2014
- Last Edit Dec 12, 2021
- Language English
- Keywords dance photography, Roman History, travel, Italy, dance
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About the Creator
Jeff Holcombe
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
I've been photographing dance in the landscape for over 30 years, beginning while a grad student at the University of Michigan. In 2004, my history of environmental dance photography was published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Humanities. In 2013, I gave a presentation on "Dancing the Appian Way" at the American College Dance Festival in Amherst, MA, and images from this project have been in many gallery shows. Recently, my attention has been focused on abstract micrographs and micro-photography, as we develop Agonist Gallery in Broad Brook, CT.