"One studio dance photographer who will, I predict, do the most for American dance photography in the early years of the upcoming century is former NYCB dancer Steven Caras. "His work is technically brilliant, with soul and an obvious love for dance."
Jack Mitchell, Photographer/Writer
Dance Magazine

"Steven Caras, having danced himself, has an intuitive feel for dancers and the way they move. This understanding is evident in his photography ...he captures the outer workings of the body while revealing glimpses of the dancer's inner life."
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Artistic Director
Baryshnikov Art Center

"Steven Caras is the phenomenon we've been looking for in dance photography for many years."
Francis Mason
WQXR Radio

"Steven Caras' photographs of the golden years of ballet in America can't be matched."
Virginia Johnson, Editor-in-Chief
Pointe Magazine

"Musicality, line, and attention for detail - Balanchine qualities for ballet - have been transposed into Mr. Caras' photography."
Suzanne Farrell, Artistic Director
Suzanne Farrell Ballet
Kennedy Center Award Honoree

"What makes Caras' photographs so remarkably appealing is that they are from a dancer's perspective within a Class 5 hurricane of the best possible professional performances - the stunning images depict exciting levitating moments engraved on photographic paper that capture the poetic beauty of a universal body language."
Bruce Helander, Artist/Author

"Photographs by Steven Caras possess the true photographer's gift that Lincoln Kirstein described as, 'suggesting previous and subsequent motion.' Steven does not aggrandize his dancers. Here are not glamorized creatures performing but human beings dancing. Closer viewing reveals an unsuspected diversity of subject: Sometimes it's dancing, sometimes it's theater, and sometimes it's life."
Merrill Brockway , Founder/Producer
Dance In America
Public Broadcasting Service

"There's nothing like a dance background for a dance photographer... Steve knows what the moment is - what's correct."
Martha Swope, Photographer

"He has the unique perspective of and sensitivity to choreography and movement. He is a photographer of rare and exceptional talents. His photography captures the essence of dance like no one else's."
Peter Martins, Ballet Master in Chief
New York City Ballet

"No one photograph could sum up Mr. B, but the one from Steven Caras."
(Referring to "Last Bow" )
Harris Green
Dance Magazine

"... a delight for the eyes and supper for the soul."
(On Steven Caras' books on Balanchine and Peter Martins)
David Swickard
The East Hampton Star

"Steven Caras' photographs capture the beauty and excitement of the dance."
Rose Keyser, Former Picture Editor
Time Magazine

"Steven Caras is a superb photographer whose work we use regularly in New York Magazine. Possibly, because he was a dancer himself, he is able to catch, with his camera, the exact split second that captures both the movement and mood of a performance. He can make dancers look beautiful as sculptural forms in space and alive as artists and people. This gives his pictures a unique distinction."
Susan Vermazen, Former Associate Photography Editor
New York Magazine

("Steven Caras is)... the most accomplished and artful photographer of dance that Miami City Ballet has had the pleasure of dealing with. His background as a dancer has provided him with an instinctive timing for split second capturing of what we always seek to achieve - a perfect line. His imagination is superior in terms of structure and staging dance photography. He has a complete command of all the technical requirements and, in particular, has a brilliant ability to light action photographs."
Edward Villella, Artistic Director and CEO
Miami City Ballet
Kennedy Center Award Honoree

"Steven Caras graces his profession. He is an artist, a dancer, as well as a photographer. He always manages to find a personal view that enhances and delights."
Jacques d'Amboise, Founder and Artistic Director
National Dance Institute
Kennedy Center Award Honoree

"Steven Caras...a former member of the New York City Ballet, has assembled a dazzling group of his rehearsal and performance pictures of current City Ballet dancers. Except for the names of the performers and the titles of the ballets they (the photographs) are left to speak for themselves in an eloquent tribute to Balanchine and his work."
Daphne Hurford
The New York Times Book Review

"When the eye of a trained dancer becomes the eye of a trained photographer, an ideal is possible. In the photographs of Steven Caras, such an ideal is attained."
Gerald Fitzgerald, Associate Editor
Opera News/Ballet News

"...he (Steven Caras) catches one dancer as she strikes the perfect pose, another at the precise top of his leap. It's as though Caras is on the stage, dancing himself, knowing to the millisecond when to capture the movements."
Leonard W. Boasberg
The Philadelphia Inquirer

"His intimate knowledge of the company's (New York City Ballet's) works, their creation, and the dancers has provided him with an intuitive sense of the most dramatic or telling moments to record Balanchine's choreographic intentions and the individual dancers' particular strengths."
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