Tag: dance

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I really wish I knew whose image this was–it’s freaking fabulous.

Reminiscent of both Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (in palette, costume and context while still feeling divergent w/r/t POV) and Weronika Izdebska (murky underexposure).

I love the fecundity of the moment. It’s a bit like one of those hooks that always emerged to try to fish hacks off stage in Looney Tunes, also suggestive of opening a curtain or movement in a dance performance. It even kind of reminds me of Lot’s Wife from The Bible story (this being the moment she looks back, frozen before she is transformed into a pillar of salt).

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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.

@anastasiakole – Untitled (2015)

This post is guest curated by @suspendedinlight.

I’m obsessed with the mood of this set. With the second photo
especially, I can *hear* the echoes of the cold concrete, I can feel the
chill of the wet fabric and hair. There’s something athletic and
dance-like in these movements, but they aren’t ethereal
levitation jump shots. This is someone violently throwing themselves at
the floor, the walls.