Dance and Motion

A compilation of performance art featuring dancers as part of a talk at at the #parabolaartscentre. Music ‘Whatever it Takes’ by #Periscope Ensemble.

This video is a series of photos I took on a trip to Cuba based around dance and slow motion. i deliberately used a slow shutter speed to capture stills of the dance motion freezing the moments in time.

A collection of dance emphasising movement and motion.

My creative process is very intuitive when painting dance subjects. My intention is to fully associate with the subject and I to imagine mimicking the movements to inform the paintings. When I capture dancers it is visualising a form leaving a wake of colour and the continued form. I also aim to convey the sensation of being the perfomers’s as if I were seeing the world through their eyes in a fixed moment in time. During the painting session I imagine being in the turning up the volume of the sense of colour, movement, intensity of light etc. On the technical side, I use a juxtaposition of warm and cool colours to lead the eye forward and backwards giving a momentum to the painting. Sweeping brushstrokes contribute to the movement of dance continuing  the action as if it extended beyond the canvas.

Please click on each image for more information and thumbnail to view the whole gallery.

 
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