序言 | Foreword

欢迎大家现在跳舞。在以前的出版物中，我们关注的是个别编舞的工作；在这些页面中，我们将注意力转移到摄影师的工作上，他捕捉到了日常生活中令人尴尬的美和令人惊讶的编排。我们邀请马丁·帕尔为世界各地的夜总会、学校、舞厅、教堂、游轮、公园和餐馆里跳舞的人们拍照。我们还包括了他20世纪70年代拍摄的一些最早的黑白舞蹈照片，这些照片揭示了他长期以来对人们对音乐（和酒精）的反应方式的兴趣。他的作品范围和旅程的弧线非同寻常：他向我们展示了这场运动背后的情感。

帕尔形象中的快乐和热情给我们留下了深刻的印象。跳舞可以让人们同时更真实地认识自己，但也可以尝试夸张的自我：更酷、更辣、更时尚、更性感。舞蹈解放了精神，让我们更接近当下的真相。但舞蹈也允许温柔和内省，正如帕尔的几个主题中弥漫的忧郁的暗流所示。

跳舞的社交场合不可避免地会有一些人不惜一切代价不跳舞。这些壁花想看，但不想参与。我们可以在帕尔的照片中看到他们，在空白处，他们坚定的脸上可以看到一丝渴望和遗憾。我们邀请你成为壁花、窥视者和社交舞蹈鉴赏家，当你浏览这一系列作品时，但之后我们请你站起来跳舞。

Welcome to EVERYBODY DANCE NOW. In previous publications we have focused on the work of individual choreographers; in these pages we shift our focus to the work of a photographer who captures the awkward beauty and surprising choreography of everyday people and circumstances. We invited Martin Parr to photograph people dancing in nightclubs, schools, ballrooms, churches, cruise ships, parks, and restaurants all over the world. We've also included some of his earliest images of dancing-black and white photography from the 1970s-that reveal his longstanding interest in the way people respond to music (and alcohol). The range of his work, and the arc of his journey, is extraordinary: he shows us the emotion behind the movement.

We are struck by the happiness and enthusiasm in Parr's images. Dancing allows people to simultaneously become truer to who they really are, but also to try on an exaggerated version of themselves: cooler, hotter, groovier, sexier. Dancing liberates the spirit and puts us closer to the truth of the moment. But dancing also allows for tenderness and introspection, as seen in the undercurrent of melancholy that pervades several of Parr's subjects.

Social situations where dancing occurs inevitably have their share of people who are committed at all costs to not dancing. These wallflowers want to look but not participate. We can see them in Parr's images, there in the margins, a hint of longing and regret observable on their otherwise steadfast faces. We invite you to be a wallflower, voyeur, and connoisseur of social dancing as you look through this collection, but afterwards we ask you to GET UP AND DANCE.

Patsy Tarr and Abbott Miller