When Professor Julen Esteban-Pretel presented his proposal for a joint collaboration between four departments of Queens College (CUNY): Drama, Theatre & Dance, Art, Economics, and Sociology, the concept was, in part, to highlight A Year of Migration at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, which started in October, 2019, with the exhibition, Arte Cubano. Postponed by the pandemic until now, the focus of this exhibition is seventy mostly black and white photographs by Esteban-Pretel, seen here, selected from a collection of hundreds, documenting the dancers’ and choreographers’ portraits, backstage, rehearsal, and performance of four works by four QC dance professors including former dance concert director, Richard Move, with Guanglei Hui, Carolyn Webb and Edisa Weeks, and performed by QC students in 2017 titled Migrations. The photographs are accompanied by performance videos, props and costumes from the production. 

Julen Esteban-Pretel is an Associate Professor in Economics at Queens College, CUNY, and a New York City-based photographer with a PhD in Economics from New York University. Esteban-Pretel lived in Tokyo from 2004 to 2014 where he was a professor at the University of Tokyo, while at the same time, he photographed some of the biggest artists in rock, pop, metal and punk music. While Julen is best known for his documentary and live music photography, he also often shoots dance, portraits and city landscapes. 

Julen’s photography work has been published in books, magazines and newspapers, such as TOUR DREAMS, Primal Footmark #5 to #8, Rolling Stone Magazine, Metal Hammer, KERRANG! Magazine, Guitar Magazine, Rhythm and Drums Magazine, Switch, Quick Japan, PMC, Massive, The New York Times and The Guardian. His work has also been used on the covers of DVDs, album covers and DVD booklets for ONE OK ROCK, coldrain, Soziedad Alkoholika and Those Damn Crows.

Choreographers:
Richard Move
Guanglei Hui
Edisa Weeks
Carolyn Webb

Dancers (in alphabetical order): 
Ashley Ararat
Noni Byrd-Gibbs
Destiny Cabrales
Robyn Cascio
Maggie-Mae Cronin
Dominique Curd
Leah Davidson
Kevin Duong
Liselotte Fana-Mejia
Delsa Heredia
Steven Jeltsch
Khiabet Leal
Sheryl Miller
Sameerah Mohamed
Jaria Morris
Victoria Murgida
Manjari Jasmine Parikh
Asia Pharr
Brittany Stewart
Elise Walters
Inayah Webster
Wei Yao
Yichen Zhang

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