Dance Like No One’s Watching
CELEBRATION AS LIBERATION As you venture deeper into the exhibition, a spread of black-and-white photographs lines the walls on either side of the room. On the right side is Allen D. Crooks’s Lose yourself to dance,most of which was photographed during a fiftieth-anniversary family celebration and vow renewal at the East Preston Recreation Centre. The photos pull you into a room full of joy, laughter, and celebration. Glistening suits and well-worn floors set the scene, as family members—old and young, anonymous and identified—strut their stuff, skirts swaying with the music, arms raised in jubilation.
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