Portrait of a Dance - 2

Post 2 of "Portrait of a Dance." 

I wanted to post this image from the series "Portrait of a Dance" that I've started.  What dancers have to endure in order to create movement amazes me.  When I look at a piece being performed, it all looks so effortless that I forget about the blood, sweat and tears that took place to make it look so easy.  There is such a tremendous strain on the dancer's body, and during this week's shoot I took time to examine the feet of these artists. 

The last image is one that I just couldn't justify converting into black and white.  I feel the colors and feel is just perfect this way.  Thanks, Mindy, for giving me an inspired moment.





Portrait of a Dance - 1

One of the series I'm working on is a portrait series of senior men and women.  Since I'm getting older myself, I've been interested in the aging process, and I have fallen in love with the mature face and the stories that form them.

I met Rudy recently, and he's a very interesting man.  He has spent his life in dance and performance art, and he invited me to come to a dance studio in Santa Monica where he is choreographing and rehearsing a performance piece along with a small company of dancers.  I first went to photograph him, but I was drawn to watching the rehearsal going on, and the movement was hypnotizing.  I started to shoot the rehearsal, and I'm going to go back over the next couple months to document more of the process of bringing this piece to performance.