New Orleans fine arts, fashion and portrait photographer Jason Kruppa captured these beautiful images of dancers rehearsing in a studio at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. In them, Chalnessa Eames and Prince Credell rehearse their role in the adapted quartet “One” by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, as Leo Mujic and Rubi Pronk provide instruction. They will join other dancers in performances Friday and Saturday at NOCCA, an event sponsored by New Orleans Ballet.
Click here for more information or to buy tickets to this weekend’s Jacoby and Pronk performances.
Click here to read NolaVie contributor Molly Davis’s interview with the artists.
Fashion, fine art and portrait photographer Jason Kruppa writes about the stories behind his work for NolaVie. Catch more of his work at kruppaworks.com.
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