{"id":139182,"date":"2026-02-19T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139182\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:42:09","slug":"thibaut-grevet-on-his-work-for-new-york-city-ballets-2026-art-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139182\/","title":{"rendered":"Thibaut Grevet on His work for New York City Ballet’s 2026 Art Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThibaut Grevet on His work for New York City Ballet’s 2026 Art Series<\/p>\n

This season, French director and photographer turned his eyes on NYBC’s company of dancers.<\/p>\n

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Naomi Corti in an image by Thibaut Grevet for the 2026 New York City Ballet Art Series.
\n Thibaut Grevet <\/p>\n

Picking up the family VHS camera to record Motocross adventures in the French countryside: an artist\u2019s earliest experiments don\u2019t often so directly foreshadow how their careers might develop. In the case of Thibaut Grevet, this urge to capture his childhood friends\u2019 feats speaks to the project she\u2019s completed in recent years, with professional models, athletes, and artists\u2014including, now, New York City Ballet dancers. Grevet found himself organically drawn into the art world, where through early documentary captures, particularly amongst skateboarders, he soon met other young artists straddling the worlds of commerce and creativity. Eventually, he began experimenting with DIY and increasingly com-plicated photographic techniques, in an exploratory approach to art making that he still uses today.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a vision, but I think it\u2019s more about understanding mathematically how art works,\u201d Grevet says of his development as an artist. \u201cI think it\u2019s about exploring and learning.\u201d Since completing studies in graphic design, Grevet has created campaign videos for brands like Vans, Converse, Mercedes-Benz, Louis Vuitton, and Calvin Klein, among many others. His work often reflects his ongoing interest in capturing moments of perfection in execution, stutter-stopping time, and abstractions of the human form and landscape. His photography similarly spans the worlds of sports and fashion, all created with an openness of approach that uses analog or digital effects, or a combination of the two. In 2022, he collected a number of photographs he\u2019d taken over the years depicting subjects in motion, publishing the book Blurred. The lasting effect of his work is one of experimentation, a certain playfulness, and curiosity about the movement between movements\u2014what comes before and after a pose or performance.<\/p>\n

With [the NYCB] campaign, there are several layers,\u201d Grevet explains. \u201cThe first layer is capturing the choreography, which relates to my background in photographing athletes; it\u2019s all\u00a0about being in the right place, at the right time, with the right angle. The second layer is, how do we bring it to something more artistic? For me, this is the feeling around the dancing\u2014the preparation, the waiting, the training, and the breath before doing the step; this kind of process is similar to other sports.And the third layer is about heritage. I\u2019m really obsessed with looking for old books and references. For example, the use of stop motion; and there is a major homage to Gjon Mili, the photographer that developed this kind of stroboscope photography, with this exposure technique. I brought it into something new with digital techniques. So we have multiple photographic methods, multiple dancers, and multiple images, all in one frame.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reference to Mili is particularly appropriate, not only because many of his best-known photographs featured athletes and dancers\u2014including NYCB dancers and portraits of George Balanchine<\/a> himself\u2014in motion, but also because his approach was firmly situated in experimentation. After studying electrical engineering at MIT in the 1920s, Mili was employed by the Westinghouse Lamp Company to conduct lighting research, all the while testing out new photographic techniques as the technology advanced, on the side. He used a series of flashes for his stroboscopic images, made most famous in LIFE magazine, with photos \u201ctaken in 1\/100,000th of a second.\u201d As he told LIFE, \u201cTime could truly be made to standstill. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent move-ment.\u201d The same applies beautifully to Grevet\u2019s work, with\u00a0the addition of digital tools and an embrace of the imprecise, \u201cblurred\u201d moments providing additional such texture to his creations.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\tNew York City Ballet dancers in an image by Thibaut Grevet for the 2026 Art Series.
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\u201cYou capture something that is so human, and in the meantime, so inhuman, because what they do with their bodies is so impressive,\u201d Grevet says of working with the NYCB dancers. \u201cI\u2019m sure you can ask them about the stop-motion production and they\u2019ll remember my voice saying every second, \u2018And go. And go,\u2019 because I wanted them to be so slow in their movements. It was probably not easy for them, but when they saw the final result,\u00a0they saw that it works. Honestly, it was amazing.\u201d The result isa rich, atmospheric representation of the Company\u2019s artistry as well as its humanity. \u201cTo me, it\u2019s a sum of what they actually do,\u201d he adds, \u201cthe training, how they train by themselves\u2014what people might not see when they perform. What they do in the dark and what shows in the light.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

For Grevet, the Art Series commission offers the opportunity to bring this sense of exploration and surprise to visitors to the theater. What makes him \u201cvibrate\u201d on set, he says, is \u201cwhen you have something in front of your eyes that\u2019s special, but also there are things you can\u2019t really control.\u201d His hope is for the public to experience something similar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Visit\u00a0NYCBallet.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\tAnthony Huxley with Alston Macgill in an image by Thibaut Grevet for the 2026 New York City Ballet Art Series.
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