Thankyou Marisa/Agnes. This whole series of "The Dancers" images have generated some real interest (some for reasons not inetended). I don't think I have ever had a set of photographs commented on so much. I guess that it has prompted debate/discussion is good, I am certainly seeing these images through all your eyes now. I will be adding a few more that I will then file in their own gallery. Someone mentioned Munch in the comments, I can see the connection...
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19-Aug-2005 21:49
Wow... what a strange image, Kal! looks like you were able to 'capture' the evil inside the dancers.. their faces are really scary, deformed.. very shocking! And their bodies appared to be consumed by the movement. You certainly got something here...
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19-Aug-2005 18:26
Well..this is not exactly about dance for me....more..about movements...or..even more ...i dont know...it looks like..they are blown by a very srong wind...and..they try to resist to it....that soft brownish color make me feel,that they made by send..and they will fade away in some seconds from the photo,cuz the wint will blow them away........
Both dancers were very skeletal (as you can see from their portrait), but even that portrait does not show how skeletal. In that sense they were already very incongruous looking. By this stage I had taken a few images and liked the effect I was seeing on their faces. Was it for the purpose of expression, well yes, because I wanted them as faceless or unidentifiable as possible and then we meet them in that final portrait. The dance of death is not far of what these two looked like in real life, I could rap my hands around the waste of the man, they were both very fit, but also very gaunt, and what you see is not far off what they looked like.
Even more abstract version of the previous shot -- the moving heads become grotesque. Did you want that feeling? If so, the image works as a metaphor for the dance of death. If not, you have used form to create an undesired effect in terms of content.
