Carrie Lingscheit – Momento No. 5821 {pull} (2010)

The poses in this reminds me of choreographer François Veyrunes‘ piece Close Up to the World–which has some mind boggling movements in it.

Dance was something I knew literally nothing about until 2009. I collaborated with a dancer on a photo project and she dragged me kicking and screaming to several performance. I didn’t take much for me to stop kicking and screaming and instead start offering to attend shows.

I never got to the point where I really felt I got a feeling for the form but what I did discover is that I sincerely think that choreographers belong in MFA Art programs more than photographers. Or to put it another way: you put a choreographer and a photographer in a room together and interrogate them on matters of conceptual art, it’s a rare photographer that’s going to be able to even pretend to keep pace.