Dance Photography / Documentation…
as things are dematerialized in motions they become idealized, while still retaining, deep down, a strong skeleton of truth. In this way, if we repeat the prinicipal states of the action, the figure of a dancer –moving a foot, in midair, pirouetting– will, even when not possessing its own trajectory or offering a dynamic sensation, be much moire like a dancer, and more like a dancing sensation, than would a single figure frozen in just one of the states that build up movement… The images endevour to extract not only the aesthetic expression of the motives, but also the inner sensorial, cerebral, and psychic emotions that we feel when an action leaves its superb, unbroken trace.
Anton Giulio Bragaglia
The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.
Isadora Duncan
Dance Photography / Dance Documentation
