The art project titled Photoreographia is the realization of the photographic concept, that is based on the act of resolving the contradiction between dance (a movement through time), and photography (the imprint of a moment).
It is an act of merge, where a particular choreography, that was choreographed for this occasion is captured into a unique image which reflects both the choreographers and photographers artistic choices.
Over the last few years, technology has become advanced enough to let us take this contradiction and turn it into a crossover project between dance and photography. After considering the options using my experience in dance, I decided to take photographs from the perspective above the stage. This allowed me to use different blending techniques to merge dozens of individualy exposed pictures through the dance choreography to create the final image, which shows the path of the choreography, as well as some of the stationary moments. This way, the viewer can pick up a point on the final image and follow the choreography, or simply see it as one single image.
I named this project Photoreographia.
This collaboration gives the participating artists a great opportunity to challenge their skills in the different aspects of their own artistic fields and to combine them into a new form of experience. A photographer, a choreographer, and a dancer work closely together to achieve this specific task, something that was probably never attempted before. I asked the ballet director of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater, Jutta Ebnother, to create a choreography dedicated to this project. She was my director back in the day when I was still dancing, so I knew she would be interested in such a project. To succeed in Photoreographia, the choreography have to be adapted to certain given technical criteria. Several choreographic elements, such as the perspective, the path of the dancer, and the speed of the movements needs to be reconsidered.
All in all, we can say that this project rewrites some of the rules of stage choreography, and not just because it is not performed directly to an audience, but because the form of presentation is unusual.
Photoreographia is an ongoing art project, for the sake of exploring new forms of it, and also improving it’s creation process. In the past, I had a chance to collaborate on Photoreographia with Iván Pérez in Theater und Orchester Heidelberg and Stephan Thoss in Nationaltheater Mannheim.
Most recently, I had the privilege to be the global grant recipient of the FUJIFILM GFX Challenge Grant Program 2021, by means of which I was able to develop and improve this art concept. The new collection of the images will be released soon.
Collaborating artists of the new collection are: Rina Hayashi, Christine Ceconello, YuriHamano, Amancio Gonzalez, David Nigro and István Simon
Recent publications:
July 2022 Fujifilm
March 2021 Theatermagazin März / April 2021
November 2020 tanz Magazine
For more information about Photoreographia, please visit the dedicated project website here.
Photoreographia
The art project titled Photoreographia is the realization of the photographic concept, that is based on the act of resolving the contradiction between dance (a movement through time), and photography (the imprint of a moment).
It is an act of merge, where a particular choreography, that was choreographed for this occasion is captured into a unique image which reflects both the choreographers and photographers artistic choices.
Over the last few years, technology has become advanced enough to let us take this contradiction and turn it into a crossover project between dance and photography.
After considering the options using my experience in dance, I decided to take photographs from the perspective above the stage. This allowed me to use different blending techniques to merge dozens of individualy exposed pictures through the dance choreography to create the final image, which shows the path of the choreography, as well as some of the stationary moments. This way, the viewer can pick up a point on the final image and follow the choreography, or simply see it as one single image.
I named this project Photoreographia.
This collaboration gives the participating artists a great opportunity to challenge their skills in the different aspects of their own artistic fields and to combine them into a new form of experience. A photographer, a choreographer, and a dancer work closely together to achieve this specific task, something that was probably never attempted before.
I asked the ballet director of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater, Jutta Ebnother, to create a choreography dedicated to this project. She was my director back in the day when I was still dancing, so I knew she would be interested in such a project.
To succeed in Photoreographia, the choreography have to be adapted to certain given technical criteria. Several choreographic elements, such as the perspective, the path of the dancer, and the speed of the movements needs to be reconsidered.
All in all, we can say that this project rewrites some of the rules of stage choreography, and not just because it is not performed directly to an audience, but because the form of presentation is unusual.
Photoreographia is an ongoing art project, for the sake of exploring new forms of it, and also improving it’s creation process. In the past, I had a chance to collaborate on Photoreographia with Iván Pérez in Theater und Orchester Heidelberg and Stephan Thoss in Nationaltheater Mannheim.
Most recently, I had the privilege to be the global grant recipient of the FUJIFILM GFX Challenge Grant Program 2021, by means of which I was able to develop and improve this art concept. The new collection of the images will be released soon.
Collaborating artists of the new collection are: Rina Hayashi, Christine Ceconello, Amancio Gonzalez, David Nigro and István Simon
Recent publications:
July 2022 Fujifilm
March 2021 Theatermagazin März / April 2021
November 2020 tanz Magazine
For more information about Photoreographia, please visit the dedicated project website HERE.