no shoes to dance with

The beauty of ballerinas made me dreaming of their life, a world full of mystery and fascinaction. I had the strong desire to become one of them, without knowing that the actual lived stereotype in the self choosen gilded cage in the theater retrieves desillusioning banalities and routines as well as psychic hyperesthesia due to powerfull and deep passions. I grew up dancing every other day and developed a believing in the fantastic and theprobability of miracles. I feel this has influenced the method and construction of my imagery, where the lines between reality and fiction, truth and perception, space and time are blurry. My work „ No shoes to dance with“ is about the twilight zone of the in general romantic stereotype of ballett dancers at the theatre. The photographed protagonists are involved in their particular action, at the moment, where they are in between their real life and their stage life, which makes it easy to read our own stories into the pictures. My hope is that others might be able to crawl inside the space and feel the same comfort as I do; an escape to another world, full of dreams, magic and secrets, which is beyond our perception of everyday life.