Just Dance
Feel the rhythm and let your artistic imagination move with the beat. Get inspired by these exquisite art pieces featuring the art of dancing.
In Kenya disability is a taboo and the majority of people who are differently abled are hidden from society. PAMOJA (meaning together in Swahili) is a multi-abled and disabled professional dance group in Nairobi.
Made famous by Bollywood, the dancer is surrounded by an almost celestial sphere of colour as she jumps into the air. The work highlights the religious aspect of Indian dance as she launches a fine coloured dust into the air.
Patti Hansen and Rene Russo dancing in a field.
This ephemeral photograph of a ballerina alone on stage captures the elegant motion and soft femininity of the ballet. Long exposures blur forms together, creating soft hues of blues, pinks, and purples.
This digitally remastered image evokes a sense of continued movement and narrative as the dancer becomes smaller and smaller. A riot of colours – reds, yellows, purples and greens, it reflects the vibrancy of contemporary African dance.
Surrounded by a school of fish, the dancer strikes an elegant ballet pose as if an underwater mermaid.
The woman dancing naked implies the courage to rebel and break free from her own constraints. The dove, acting as a symbol of peace, only serves to enhance the mood of freedom and independence inherent in the work.
Recalling the images of famous ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, these startlingly ethereal shots capture the dancers in all their motion.
A beautiful portrait of Diana Vishnyeva, principal dancer with both the Mariinsky Ballet (formerly the Kirov Ballet) and the American Ballet Theatre. This photograph captures in full motion balancing on the points of her toes.
Bronwyn Kidd’s black dancer series portrays her brilliance of creating light and the emphasis on negative space creating wonderful silhouettes as shown here in Black Dancer 3.