Tag: ballet
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Stunning Poses By Dancers in Surreal Gravity-Defying Photos of the Human Body
Rob Woodcox is an art and fashion photographer born in Houston who has made a series of images challenging gravity force. Halfway between dance and an installation made of human bodies, Rob’s photographic project is a game made of harmonies. The body is multiplied, bent, digitally manipulated to achieve the desired result: cancel gravity, cancel…
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Photographer Capture Breathtaking Images of Ballet Dancers on the Streets of New York
New York based Omar Z. Robles captures ballet dancers poised gracefully against the city grit of NYC, performing pirouettes and pliés amid taxi traffic jams, sidewalk puddles, and other bustling urban scenes. Omar first started out as a mime and then went back to school to rediscover himself. He found photography and got into shooting…
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Captivating Black & White Photography of Elegant Dancers Caught in Motion
Ukrainien photographer Vadim Stein has released a stunning photo series of dancers in motion. The powerful images consist of solid, unadorned backgrounds and a stark, black-and-white aesthetic set on a dramatic stage and place all focus on the featured figures as they theatrically twist, bend, and contort themselves into seemingly impossible positions. Scroll down to…
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Artist Turns Life-Size Origami Into Dramatic Paper Costumes Worn For Ballet Dancers
Origami, fashion and ballet dancers are an unlikely trio. Except if you’re Montreal-based artists Melika Dez and Pauline Loctin who have combined their imaginations into a creative collaboration called PLI.Ē Project. The project fuses Dez’s skills as a movement photographer with Loctin’s expertise in paper art, and showcases dancers around the world wearing hand-folded paper…
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Photographer Captures the Vulnerable Side of Ballet Dancers Who Bare All on NYC Rooftops
Photographer Omar Z. Robles has returned to New York to capture his latest series, Bare Sky Dance. Robles continues to photograph his most popular subjects – male and female ballet dancers – but this time his focus is on their vulnerable side, as each of his models pose on the rooftops of some of New…
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Capturing Grace and Elegance of Ballet Dancers on City Streets Around the World
We often think of dancers as performing just for the stage, but their awe-inspiring moves bring a fresh new perspective when brought to the city streets. Photographer Jean-Pierre travels the world to capture ballerinas among monuments and skyscrapers, as they twist and contort their bodies into graceful movements that complement the surrounding landscape. In front of…
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Julie Gautier Performs Underwater Choreography in the World’s Deepest Pool
AMA is a recently released short film by deep sea diver and underwater filmmaker Julie Gautier. Performed in the world’s deepest pool near Venice, Italy, the film follows Gautier ‘dancing’ through several uninterrupted minutes of underwater choreography. She holds her breath as she uses controlled movements to twist and glide through the calm water, eventually rising up…
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Stunning Ballet Dancers Make Mexico City Their Stage in Photo Series
At the start of his presidential election campaign, Donald Trump insisted that “when Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best.” Those words, along with many other comments about the people of Mexico and minorities around the world, have shocked many. Inspired by these words, New York-based photographer Omar Robles embarked on a 13-day excursion to Mexico City in…
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Misty Copeland Recreates the Paintings of Edgar Degas
Ballerina Misty Copeland has captivated thousands of people with her graceful moves as the principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre. In her most recent project, and in anticipation of the latest Edgar Degas exhibition at the New York Museum of Modern Art, she has teamed with the NYC Dance Project to recreate some of…
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Black and White Photography of Male Ballet Dancers
The beauty and grace of a ballet dancer is a sight to behold. But what about twenty amazingly flexible, sculptured, male ballet dancers? That was the task faced by photographer Matthew Brookes in his recent Les Danseurs project. Matthew worked with twenty male ballerinas from the Paris Opera Ballet, bringing the dancers to a minimalistic setting that allowed the men…