ballet

Being a professional dancer does not only mean glamour, beauty and limelight; a good deal more it´s about pain, sweat and hard work... These pictures were taken at several rehearsals of a contemporary dance ensemble in Germany. ©Thies Raetzke / www.raetzke.com

Every dancer HATES his FEET. Like a dominatrix they speak the language of pain and physical limitations. The dancer accepts with LOVE for his master. Every dancer LOVES his FEET. Like a nursing mother carefully pampering carefully listening to what they have to say FEET captured in graceful shoes. We admire harmony of rhythm and form and we never focus on the price of this grace

Melina is a 17 year old ballerina from Art School Conservatorio de Castella, located in Costa Rica. It's one of the first art schools in Latinamerica.

"No Shoes to Dance with" is a project that talks about theater dancers lifestyle.
Desillusioning banalities and routines as well as psychic hyperesthesia due to powerfull and deep passions. My pictures show the every day work life of the dancers at the Munich State Ballett. I shot them during rehearsals, while waiting, in the cloakroom, prepearing before and after performance.

The Royal Ballet School in Copenhagen, Denmark. They children are 10 years old and take dance lessons every day as part of their regular curriculum. It is hard work even for the small, but it is needed if you want to become the best. Maybe one or two of them will make it to dance in a play on the stage of the royal ballet when they get older.

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Sonoya Mizuno is ballet dancer & model based between Tokyo and London. These portraits were taken in a garden in Crouch End, London.

Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal.

Balletomane is a charity dance company formed entirely by volunteers who are balancing their careers or studies with their passion for ballet. The company meets every Sunday at Marylebone dance studio in London to practice their shows.

Their principal aim is to bring revisited versions of famous ballet shows to people who are not able to attend to big performances in opera houses; their audience is vast, it ranges from children to elderly people, from disabled to benefit receivers.

The students from the Royal Conservatory of dance of Cádiz show their opening night in middle june after a year of rehearsals and hard work. This essay show their diary work in the training period and the day when all their everyday efforts become a real show. Sweat, emotions, nerves… and the moments before a wish came true.