As a dance photographer, it is my desire to capture timeless images that dancers, choreographers, studio owners, universities, and professional companies can be proud of and want to put on display. I aim to create valuable image-based products that clients can actively use for advertising, social media, and the historical documentation of their work. It is my goal to provide clients with photos that capture each dancer’s most optimal technical level possible and that represents the highest quality photo that I can produce. As each image is a collaboration between myself and the client, I want each photograph to showcase the best of what we both can bring to the table.

- Arlynn Zachary

Photo: Rob Tesar

Photographer's Biography

Arlynn Zachary has an MFA in choreography from the University of NC at Greensboro (UNCG), a BA in choreography from Goucher College (Magna Cum Laude), and an AA degree from Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC). She has performed in works by Kim Robards, Charles Weidman, Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham, Sean Curran, and Jennifer Archibald, among others. She has a background at Goucher College in Stage Production and was a Technical Stage Production Intern with Bates Dance Festival in 2011, where she was honored with the position of Lighting Designer for both Jennifer Archibald and Lisa Race. Her choreography has been displayed at the American College Dance Association, Goucher College, UNCG, Winthrop University (WU), Columbia College, Furman University, Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU), La Roche University, Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina Dance Festival, Greensboro Fringe Festival, Charlotte Dance Festival (CDF), Charlotte New Music Festival, Detroit Dance City Festival, SoloDuo Dance Festival, Emergence Showcase, Bodiography Contemporary Ballet, and was a resident choreographer for Charlotte's Wine & Dance concerts, to name a few. She has worked for Echo Contemporary Dance Company, Moving Poets Charlotte, The Wake Project, Baran Dance, and Taproot Ensemble, in the capacities of dancer, rehearsal director, stage manager, and lighting designer. She has served on the board of the KinetiCollective, was the Board Chair for the Charlotte Dance Festival and Dance Artist Alliance CLT, and was the Director of Dance for the Charlotte New Music Festival’s Dance Co-Lab. While in graduate school, she was awarded Graduate Assistant and Teaching Assistant positions, served as the School of Dance’s Graduate Representative for the Graduate Student Association, was a member of the Graduate Studies Committee for The Graduate School, and served as President of the Association of Graduate Students in Dance. Her research, A Qualitative Study on Constructing Fascial Awareness in Higher Education Dance Programs, on the body’s connective tissue system, was presented at both the Graduate Dance Forum and the Graduate Research and Creativity Expo at UNCG in 2018. Her screen dance, Grasping, has been showcased at An Evening of Screen Dance at UNCG, Greensboro Dance Film Festival, KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival, and American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers. She was a recipient of a Regional Artist Project Grant from the Arts and Science Council (ASC) in 2015, the Charlotte Emerging Choreographer’s Award from CDF in 2016, the Kristina Larson Thesis Grant in 2019, an Artist Support Grant from ASC in 2022, and was selected to choreograph for the NC Choreographer’s Residency Program in 2023. She has worked as an MFA Thesis Concert Coordinator for Hollins University, was a Guest Lecturer for UNCG’s Stage Management Workshops and Technical Production courses, was a lighting designer for several of UNCG’s student and faculty concerts, and has taught dance at CPCC, JCSU, UNCG, and WU. She is the Artistic Director of THE MARK dance company and has recently ventured into the field of dance photography.