Performance Photography
You dream. You dare. You dance.
“A star danced, and under that I was born.” – William Shakespeare
Your dancers love the art of dance and live to perform in the spotlight. Your amazing teachers and directors inspire them to give it everything they’ve got. Together you all spend many focused, fun, and sweaty hours in the studio, learning and practicing for a singular goal: to create a moment in time, on stage, to share with your audience. After the curtain closes and the costumes are hung in the closets, you and your dancers can look back on the experience with love and pride.
Beautiful photos of the moments and movements you created are a great way to remember and to show the world what you achieved. As a performance photographer in the Philadelphia region I want to capture your dancers’ passion on stage whether it be a boundless jete, a carefully choreographed combination or just a moment of reflection with their fellow dancers. I have spent years shooting a variety of shows and recitals, during dress rehearsal as well as live performances. I have experience with classical, modern and cultural genres and love to shoot them all so as to capture the delight, intensity, passion and spunk of these incredible dancers doing what they love.
I am a professional preforming arts photographer to dancers, musicians actors and others throughout the greater Philadelphia region.
Services
If you are looking for performance photographers and would like to offer performance photos to your school or company, I have an online gallery and integrated shopping cart that allows dancers to easily purchase the photos they love. I offer a variety of digital and print products for sale with volume pricing and I handle all of the communication and order processing after you forward one initial email from me to your dancers. I also have options for allowing your school or company to use the photos in your marketing and options for providing all of the digital photos to all of your dancers for a flat fee based on the number of dancers.
If you’d also love to have photos of your performance for documentation or to use commercially in your marketing and studio materials, we can customize a package that fits your needs. And if you are interested in a photo day for recital portraits, please check out those services here.
Pricing & Packages
For online sales offered to dancers’ families, the pricing for prints and digital photos is significantly reduced compared to an individual photo session due to the volume of orders that come from a typical performance. Dancers’ families usually each spend between $20 to $300 on their orders of performance photos. No one is required to purchase images or prints, but typically a good percentage of the families do. Along with photos offered to dancers’ families to purchase, schools also have the option to purchase all of the images from the performance for their own use. Pricing for the school’s use starts at $450 per performance or rehearsal. Alternatively we can provide all of the digital photos of the performance to all of the dancers for a flat fee ranging between $35-$55 per dancer based on the number of dancers in the performance.
Pricing for performance photography for schools and companies in which the photos are exclusively for the school or company’s commercial use starts at $900 per performance. Depending on your needs, location and the length of the performance I can give you a price custom to you.
Contact me with any questions you have about performing arts photography in the theater. You can start here with the online request form or by sending me an email. If you prefer to talk you can give me a call right now at 610-688-0331. I’m here to help in any way that I can!