Back to Dance

Back to dance. Breathing. Moving without plan.

shooting dance

Two photoshoots today, in the flow. Surrendering to "what I want" is a funny thing -- always depends on what I believe is "I."

That's why I stopped calling it "what I want" and started focusing on listening to what is trying to happen through me.

Some beautiful photos today and even more importantly, I've been watching so much live dance. I start getting excited about collaboration with dancers on a new level.

I am thinking of possibly creating a few dance shorts.

I am starting with photos and will see where that takes me. Us.

Photography as improv

Today I had a three hour photoshoot with a local dance theatre company.

The choreography being in process, the quickly changing light conditions and the limited time resulted in an improvised, fast paced shoot.

I let the flow and the beauty lead and kept suggesting ideas to the choreographer, while listening to her own creative suggestions. A few years ago I know I would've been less flexible and more attached. Today I was amazed at the ease and pleasure of co-creation, seeing her and the dancer's ideas as invitaions, pure inspiration.

The world is a stage, an improv stage. We jammed together in a new way and created some pretty cool imagery together.

Afterward the official shoot ended I asked one of the dancers to stay for a few minutes. Here's one of the images (click on the image to see full size version):