Sunday, February 21, 2010

dance + dance + dance - dance - dance = dance


had an assignment yesterday morning to shoot a new dance company's rehearsal - they were going to be on stage, lights and costumes to videotape their dances, which will run in the background as a kind of multi-media project at their first show in a couple weeks...this was a good chance to get them with a better visual setting than their basement studio space with the bad flourescents and no costumes for an A&E preview story....it looks like a pretty cool idea they have going, and their dance was interesting - kind of modern ballet i guess you'd say.....
didn't get anything over the top cool, but i kind of liked these few


i really would have liked this one alot if only that elbow weren't in the corner, but trying to crop it just wasn't working...oh well, there will always be more dance rehearsals
after that, was looking up what else might be going on and there was a telethon and a dance-a-thon at the high school - apparently started at 7 am and going til 5 pm, so, i decided to check that out, more toward the end, when everyone would be really tired - got there about an hour and a half before end, and they were all leaving the auditorium - boo - so, though i didn't really want to shoot the telethon, i thought there might be a backstage kind of moment, and i was only a couple miles away, so i went - being that it's at the big theater here, they could do it a lot more professionally than in years past when they were at a school, but that also meant that you didn't have the performers all in one spot practicing or getting ready - they all just showed up ready and sat in the dark theater watching the other performers til they got called onstage - i made like literally 2 frames, roamed around and around for a while, and thought about trying to catch one of the dance groups - but it was gonna be like an hour before they got on, they've been in the paper at least twice in the past year at other events, so, i just left
hence the title of this post - nearly shot 3 dances in one day, but it all fizzled out to just the one...then it was desk duty, then home...not a real riveting day, but a day nonetheless...
tonight i just want to paint, paint, paint! here's something that i finished recently...i keep forgetting to post things other than foto/work up here

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