LET's DANCE

Jazz dance combines ingredients I have always loved: joy, show, improvisation, romance and live jazz music, mixing up in a cheerful happening on a big floor. Recording such a happening by making stills communicating its dynamic atmosphere is quite a challenge for a photographer. The idea behind starting this project was catching the dancing in a sort of impressionistic Turner-like way, as a dynamic game of vibrations of light, mixing colors and diffuse contours. Achieving this required quite some experimenting with camera settings and shooting position before I got the images I pursued. Shots from above (the balcony) yielded the best results since the dancers then do not overlap while turning around each other. In all the shots presented here I covered the same couple to emphasize the rich variations occuring from moment to moment in body postures, colors, and light patterns. From shot to shot there are also variations in sharpness which add to the liveliness: some details in the images - a shoe, creases in clothing, a wisp of hair – appear surprisingly sharp, as specific parts that did not move for a split second.