on the new dance project
If you’ve been following my work in the last week you’ve noticed a certain lack of lighting along with a lack of color. The images, technically, have been very simple. There are a multitude of reasons for this but mostly I wanted the simplicity to shift the focus back onto the dancer and the dance, away from my technical skill. One light, one lens, one dancer; no excuses and no distractions.
The second part you may have noticed in all my work are the various poses the dancers perform. Whether it’s taking a phrase of dance and modifying it or creating something entirely new what you’re seeing is mostly from me. There are various behind-the-lens collaborators involved here and there (and they are an invaluable resource) but so much of the fun is creating and refining my own work on the various shaped canvases that are dancers.
As the project evolves and continues I hope to include essays and interviews about dance and dancers that will hopefully reveal a much different image of the dancer than most people perceive.
