Dancers spend years and days and hours and hours and hours perfecting their craft. It involves skill, athleticism and art. Dance is more than simple movement. It is a way of communicating that transcends the spoken language. Dance can connect to and move the viewer in ways that language simply cannot.
For dancers pursuing a passion to be the best that they can be, it takes years of dedication and perseverance. It is an art form that requires the dancer to pour all of themselves into it. Literally. You cannot passively participate in the creation of dance and its movement. And if you want to perfect it, it takes years of dedication to building the strength and power that allows the dancer to move with amazing grace and elegance. It is because of this strength and power that the most graceful dancers seem to move with amazing ease.
It is because of this commitment that I think Dance Portraiture is important. Dance is an art and craft that is constantly changing for each dancer. It is a journey that the dancer takes – not for the destination, but for the sheer act of the journey. Similar to a dance, this journey is movement through time and space.
Dance Photography captures the movement of dance in a single frozen moment. And in that moment, it gives the viewer the opportunity to truly appreciate the skill, focus, strength and grace required to create this transcendent form of communicating. And, if thought of in a broader sense, Dance Portraiture gives us frozen moments to stop and appreciate the dancer in a frozen moment on their journey. It gives the viewer an opportunity to truly appreciate the growth of the artist in their art. Just as dance has the ability to tell a story – I hope that my Dance Portraiture helps to tell part of the story of the dancer.
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