I saw this sculptor's work at an outdoor festival in Lincoln Center and it seemed apropos. We spoke a bit, he uses photographs rather than live models, and they're modern dancers (he prefers that physique for sculpture)

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Michael Gard

there are some inspirational dance sculptures, including ballet - actually they are bronzes - by a lady named maggie parker, who lives in colorado. she used to be a ballet dancer, and now is a pilates instructor, as well as an artist. here is her website:
http://www.maggieparkersculpture.com/index.html

i recommend waiting long enough to let the images load, on the gallery page, as these dancers really have a sense of movement about them, a lovely free spirit - while still being anatomically and technically acceptable, to those of us who care about such things!

i love these bronzes and would like to have something similar in my fantasy garden, which would be like tom merrifield's - now there's ANOTHER ballet sculptural artist to love the work of!

definitely interesting: the woven wire, in contrasting colours...are they all male figures? it looks that way.

Grace, as I recall, they were all female (breasts, hips). There's just no hair depicted.

-NOT the ones i just looked at, at the website...no. the bumps were definitely in a different place.

Nope, definitely not all female! Quite a few males, but there are some females too. B)

Thanks for sharing this Leigh. And yes, I see both men and women. Unfortunately with my budget this will be the only place I see them. I also enjoyed looking at the Maggie Parker site. Thank you Grace.

There also are some sculptures of dancers on the following site:

http://www.imagidanse.com/francais/collect...collection.html

(click on the picture at the left)