Laura Weyl← Selected Work

Photography and moving image · New York · 2020

Corona
Ballet

A gas-masked ballerina moving through an empty New York street

On March 18, 2020—one day before New York issued its first stay-at-home order—extreme ballerina Ashlee Rose Montague and Laura Weyl entered a city suspended between ordinary life and collective shock.

Times Square, Grand Central, Midtown, and the Financial District had become an unfamiliar stage. These unaltered digital photographs follow a gas-masked dancer through that sudden emptiness, exposing the fragility of urban life, the arts, and the economy at the beginning of the pandemic.

Performance: Ashlee Rose Montague
Photography: Laura Weyl

Grand Central, from the Corona Ballet series
Grand Central2020
Bull Market, from the Corona Ballet series
Bull Market2020
In Uncertain Times, from the Corona Ballet series
In Uncertain Times2020
A Sign of the Times, from the Corona Ballet series
A Sign of the Times2020
Cover Cough, from the Corona Ballet series
Cover Cough2020

Selected coverage

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