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The Photochoreography
of James Westwater

Illuminating and Enlivening Classical Musica


Photochoreography is the artful fusion of two art forms: the live performance of great works of classical music blended with the live performance of giant-screen multi-image photographic-essays that honor the music. In essence, it's a dance of light; a photographic concerto. We call it Great Music with a New Vision.™ Westwater photochoreography is programmed for classics, light classics, pops, family, educational, outdoor and chamber music concerts.


The Minnesota Orchestra performing Westwater's A Love for the Land

Through the creative synthesis of great music and powerful images, The Photochoreography of James Westwater is bringing
community engagement
new audiences
• added relevance
• new artistic dimensions
• and partnering opportunities
to orchestras.

For over thirty years, James Westwater has been sharing his artistic vision, while helping orchestras bring the joy, beauty and wonder of classical music to hundreds of thousands of people; both young and older, first time and regular concertgoers alike. Click here for more information on how Westwater photochoreography can benefit your orchestra and help with community engagement.

• LA Times– "the photography was spectacular"

• Akron Beacon Journal– "the most distinguished portion" of The Cleveland Orchestra concert

• Washington Post– "the images magnified the music" at Westwater's sold out concert with the National Symphony

• Pittsburgh Press
– Westwater's performance with the Pittsburgh Symphony was "spectacular and loving... touching and lyrical... a brilliant photographic display"more >



Click reviews to read what many critics, conductors, orchestra managers and concert artists are saying about Westwater's photochoreography. Click images to see samples of photography from a number of Westwater's performance pieces set to great works of classical music.

Over the course of a typical performance, James Westwater personally directs the projection of hundreds of his photographic images onto an immense 3-panel panoramic screen suspended above and in front of the orchestra (example). While the orchestra performs the selected classical score/s, giant-screen images blend, dissolve, sweep, cut, and fade in and out with the music; conveying the artist's vision, inspired by great music. Westwater photochoreography can only be experienced in live concert performance.



(Left) Cover story photo by James Westwater. A rain forest image from his photochoreography, Vanishing Forest, that premiered with the Milwaukee Symphony. Reprinted with permission, courtesy of SYMPHONY.


Westwatera has performed with the principal orchestras of Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Washington DC, Minneapolis, Dallas, Saint Louis, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cincinnati, Saint Paul, Indianapolis, Houston, Portland, Denver, Columbus, Rochester, Buffalo, Salt Lake City, Vancouver BC and over 100 more >



Photo by Erin Bardonner





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