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Quinn Wharton

member of the corps de ballet of San Francisco Ballet.

Warming Up

By Quinn Wharton | Published: April 4, 2012

As we hit mid stride in the season, a certain rhythm develops in our days. We spend most of them inside the theatre on a double cycle of sorts, so it goes in rotations. This idea of patterns and schedules reminded me of how similar what we do is to meditation, or an aesthetic Eastern [...]

Staged Death

By Quinn Wharton | Published: March 13, 2012

I have spent the last 4 nights dying onstage, not figuratively, literally. All of my characters in Romeo & Juliet get killed in some way. A death scene is a very strange thing to work through when you’re not actually dying. You want to be able to have it flow naturally, to have all of [...]

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Underwater World

By Quinn Wharton | Published: November 21, 2011

© Quinn Wharton Two weeks ago I was able to put together an underwater shoot of some of the dancers. I’ve been wanting to try this for a while and haven’t been able to get either time, a pool, or people all in one spot long enough to make it happen. I was finally able [...]

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The Calm Before the Storm

By Quinn Wharton | Published: September 30, 2011

Here we are on tour in Orange County and I thought I was going to be very, very bored. In the land of cars and strip malls there isn’t a whole lot to do when you don’t want to shop and are wheel-without. Fortunately we have a stealthy local in Jennifer Stahl. Jennifer is from [...]

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