“Citysoul, photographic poster. Limited edition 1/25, signed by the artist.

Dance and photography are supposedly in radically opposite positions: the art of movement and the art of the still. This is why it is said that dance completely escapes the photo, aiming to capture the intrinsic energy of dance in a single moment, freezing it to define an image that is not about ‘movement’ but suggests movement itself.

Photography of dance is thus a reflection on the paradox that opposes (while bringing together) the mobility of the immobile. From this perspective, photography can be related to Degas’ painting, as it takes movement as a challenge.

For Degas, this movement was ideal (he painted it), unlike photography, which is real. Beyond the physical phenomenon, the language of the body tends to be amplified. This is the event: ‘being a thing, it bursts into events,’ as Paul Valéry said. ‘Here is the body in a state comparable to that of the flame… we cannot continue talking about movement, simply, we access being.’

Photography is a succession of fleeting attempts that manage to record the desire to retain a past that doesn’t exist, that has already passed, but is evoked from the nostalgia of those who lived it. This is one of the main functions of Photography in Ballet, to leave a mark, a memory, as a document and proof that it existed.

The use of Photography in Ballet also serves to spread this discipline to a larger audience. Anyone can access them, admire them, and contemplate them.”