Martha Swope: In Rehearsal

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Martha Swope. Director Harold Prince rehearsing with Patti LuPone for the Broadway production of the musical Evita. Photograph, 1979. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theatre Division. Digital ID swope_264616.

Martha Swope. Director Harold Prince rehearsing with Patti LuPone for the Broadway production of the musical Evita. Photograph, 1979. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theatre Division. Digital ID swope_264616.

Now through Saturday, January 26, 2013

Library for the Performing Arts

Martha Swope, who started out as a dance student with a Brownie camera, developed into the premier photographic documenter of performance in New York. The free exhibition focuses on Swope's photographs of the rehearsal process, highlighting her understanding of movement while illuminating how dance and theater are created. Drawn from the photographer's archives, which the Library for the Performing Arts acquired in 2010, the exhibition features striking images from throughout the photographer's 40-year career.

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