BALLET AT THE BARBICAN / series / portrait

BARBICAN CENTRE
LONDON, UK

MODEL/DANCER: TIRZA WERNER
MODEL/DANCER: ANNAELLE MUELLER

 

It’s the contrast of it all. To show movement in a still frame. A graceful ballet dancer set against the brutalist architecture of The Barbican Theatre.

 
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You see the reflections of grace. In the gentle curve of the hand, in the soft line of the neck. It flows around you, like the wind through your hair. You can’t grab it and you can’t hold on to it. But in those quiet moments, in between your movements, you feel it flowing through you.

 

It’s not that it wasn’t always there. But sometimes, we see it better in the contrast. Amidst the storms of life and the chaos around us, we learn to cherish the beauty. And out of the greatest darknesses will come our brightest light.