I love to dance for the still camera.....it is an art form in and of itself....
Started out the new decade with some new shots.....Michael Higgins Photography did the captures! January 2020
Walking into the new year like......
Flying
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Spider girl
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Photo: Tanya Constantine, Marin 2015
Layouts....a series.....
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Always fond of a good layout! With the exception of Baby Nancy in the desert, all relatively recent....
Left to right: Tanya Constantine in San Francisco, Tanya Constantine in Marin, Weiferd Watts in LA 
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And one more in Marin by Tanya
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Baby Nancy in the desert. I don't even remember the photographer.....
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A series of yoga poses shot by Tanya in Marin in 2015
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We took a series of ballet shots the same day.....
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San Francisco photographer Weiferd Watts was one of the guiding lights of my dance career. He endeared himself to me forever when he came up to me after a ballet class when I was 17, asked if I was with American Ballet Theater and if he could photograph me. We worked together from that day until his untimely death in 2010. The three photos below are from my all time favorite shoot, in a fantastic tutu by LA designer Adele Satori on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, taken that same year.
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I was honored to dance Kitri's variation in a gala (starring the late great Robin Williams.) I didn't get performance pictures, but Weiferd and I borrowed the dress (on loan from Smuin Ballet and with Joanna Berman's name inside!) and took it on the town.
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Weiferd loved the bunkers near the Golden Gate bridge as well and had a famous box series. I must have shot 100 pictures with him, freezing my butt off. Here are a few from over the years, at the bunkers and a few other places in San Francisco....
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A rare class shot....
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Baby Nancy home from Joffrey. An all time favorite.
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Another opportunity to borrow a tutu from a forgotten benefit. Photographer Andy Mogg and I went in to the studio to celebrate my combined love of yoga and ballet. Circa 2005.
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