Various Places · Live Performance Archive

The Stage

Performance Photography by Tyrone Z. McCants

Music, performing arts, speakers, and the energy created when people step before an audience.

The energy of performance, captured.

The Stage is my visual archive of live performance: musicians, singers, dancers, theatrical artists, speakers, presenters, and other people whose work comes alive before an audience.

Music has always been a source of inspiration for me. When I photograph a performance, I immerse myself in its rhythm— looking for the artist's energy, the movement of hands and bodies, the relationship between performer and audience, and the moment when sound, speech, movement, or expression becomes emotion.