Elizaveta Porodina, a Munich-based photographer, discusses her vivid new work for the New York City Ballet, where she used color to explore movement and dancer expressions. Collaborating with Wendy Whelan and Craig Hall, Porodina's photographs feature company dancers in expressive poses, utilizing long exposure techniques to capture dynamic movement. Her experience working alongside multiple choreographers was fluid and seamless, contrasting with her usual role as her own movement director. The series aims to visually reflect the energy and creativity of both the dancers and the choreography through a vibrant interplay of color.
Porodina explains her use of colour, line and long exposure sought to "capture movement as a graph", responding case-by-case to the dancers' energy.
I have a lot to say about movement ... Usually I am my own movement director," she says. But working with Wendy and Craig, she found the experience "seamless and fluid".
The context through which the dancers move is colour itself. When an arm lifts, or back bends, it drags the colour with it, revealing another layer behind.
These 24 photographs were produced in collaboration with NYCB's Wendy Whelan and Craig Hall, capturing company dancers in various solos, duets and trios.
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