In today’s episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Deborah Ory and Ken Browar, the Brooklyn-based husband-and-wife duo behind the NYC Dance Project, a celebrated collaboration at the intersection of dance, fashion, and portraiture.
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NYC Dance Project is the collaboration of photographers Ken Browar and Deborah Ory. Ken comes from the world of fashion photography, while Deborah started as a dancer before turning to the camera. Together, they merge precision, elegance, and movement, creating photographs that feel like choreography in still form.
Their project celebrates dancers in New York City, capturing motion, strength, and grace with dramatic lighting and refined composition. The images often show mid-air leaps, sculptural poses, and a sense of poetry that blends the athletic with the artistic. The work has appeared widely in magazines, galleries, and across their Instagram presence.
Beyond single images, NYC Dance Project has become an archive of contemporary dance. Their books The Art of Movement and The Style of Movement extend the project into lasting form, pairing photography with dancers’ reflections. The result is documentation and art—a tribute to dance as energy, identity, and expression.
NYC Dance Project: Deborah Ory and Ken Browar
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