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Like a dream becoming reality the Ballerina Project is an ongoing series of photographs created by photographer: Dane Shitagi. Constructed over the span of 12 years the Ballerina Project is not your typical dance photography but an etching of a ballerinas heart and emotions.
Every aspect of the Ballerina Project is carefully crafted and cultivated. The majority of ballerinas who have posed for the project are currently or have danced for companies such as American Ballet Theater, Boston Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Dresden Semperopera Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Ballet West and New York City Ballet. Other ballerinas are in schools such as School of American Ballet and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. The crafts of dance and photography are truly upheld on both ends of the creation of the Ballerina Project.
Much of the project has been photographed on traditional film and cameras. Only as of the late Spring 2012 the project has begun to incorporate digital photography for a portion of our latest images.
Currently the Ballerina Project has one of the largest network of followers for ballet related pages on Facebook in the world. In the press the project has been written about in the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post and countless blogs. The project has also been featured in advertisements for both Fujifilm and Sony Erricson.
http://ballerinaproject.com/blog/
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150341892464949&set=a.10150291309234949.73964.22455674948&type=1&theater
CaliforniaPeggy
(151,743 posts)The one of the dancer on her toes made me wince...
These dancers have so much grace and strength.
I am wowed!
sheshe2
(86,903 posts)Wow, the pictures at that site are inspiring, haunting and so beautiful.
Cha
(304,374 posts)I get the treat of one ballet a year, my sister takes me. Love her for that~
Cha
(304,374 posts)she~
niyad
(119,152 posts)sheshe2
(86,903 posts)~at the ballet!
raven mad
(4,940 posts)What was the name of the original project in Harlem, back in the 60's, that produced some of the greatest dancers ever? Senility strikes deep, into my mind it has creeped.........
sheshe2
(86,903 posts)I didn't find anything. I should ask my niece, she dances too.
Thank you!
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)Alvin Ailey? Fantastic dance company, now under the direction of Judith Jamison I believe.
niyad
(119,152 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)Thank you!
niyad
(119,152 posts)Stargazer09
(2,145 posts)Thank you for posting those pictures!
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Aldo Leopold
(685 posts)Quite obvious it is.
sheshe2
(86,903 posts)I know it well.
Did you need to share that here? You dumped on my thread. Is it so hard for you to stop and look at some beauty? No one is without pain, yours is not greater than the rest of ours.
Stop once in a while and take some time to smell the flowers. It is not healthy to dwell in darkness.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)sheshe2
(86,903 posts)yet others are there too. I am, won't go into a deep explanation, however everyone of us deserves some light in their lives.
I gave that here. There is no need to do what you did. We are all in pain one way or another. Take a break and let some light into your soul.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)sheshe2
(86,903 posts)I know what dying looks like. I have watched it with one family member for the past two years and it continues. Now I am watching another.
You don't own the misery, yet we all deserve the light.
You make this a habit and that is just sad.
Just take a moment, just one.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)I was trying to make the point that humans are beautiful and graceful even in moments like this.
That the act of living, of working, of struggling is grace -especially when done without flaunting oneself and with humility.
That was my point and I don't appreciate all the flack over it.
sheshe2
(86,903 posts)Are the dancers flaunting there humility? They are soaring! They are exceptional!
You came here to dump Bonobo, you always do.
As I said, that is sad~
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Your interpretation of my actions sucks.
that doesn't work here.
I posted a thread to give us a snapshot in time, of something beautiful. It was about women. Their grace, their beauty. It's not outward beauty, it is what is within their souls that projects that. They delivered 100 fold.
You threw in a picture of a man, pretty much looked like he was dead or dying. What is sad is that you had to bring a man here. Trust me I have no problem with men, yet you seem to have a problem with a thread about women.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Then you freak out and you want me to trust you that you don't have a problem with men?
Sorry, now THAT doesn't work.
niyad
(119,152 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)People are so fucking suspicious and aggressive. Where is the spirit of love?
I did NOTHING to warrant that response.
If everyone on this thread just responded: "Yes, beautiful indeed!" would that be better?
Can't we talk and stretch a little without the attacks commencing?
niyad
(119,152 posts)you, but keep trying to tell yourself that.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)So yes, it was an "attack" albeit a weak, passive aggressive one.
niyad
(119,152 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)You could have taken a moment and thought. You could have given me the benefit of the doubt, but you went on the attack.
Now you are trying to make me look over-sensitive. Another passive aggressive technique.
niyad
(119,152 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)You dumped on her OP. Take responsibility for your actions like a mature adult. All you've done is make lame excuses for yourself, when you were confronted. You have much to learn about showing others respect and dignity for their feelings. From what I see, all you cared about is protecting yourself from any wrong.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)If sheshe felt you dumped on her, those were her real, genuine feelings that you disregarded and refused to acknowledge. Acting as if you couldn't help it because..... ? Not cool.
Grow up and own your own shit for a change.
sheshe2
(86,903 posts)sheshe2
(86,903 posts)Thank you!
Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)sheshe2
(86,903 posts)Why is it so bad to take one moment to enjoy a bit of beauty in our lives? None of us are exempt from pain. To dwell on it makes us bitter. I want to have a few moments in the sun, when I do it makes the pain a little less and it allows me to appreciate life all the more.
niyad
(119,152 posts)is going on in our own lives.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)It was about the grace and humility of hard work. It is another facet of human beauty.
I wasn't offended by your photo.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Who is that, and what is wrong with him?
mahannah
(893 posts)DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)A sincere love song for all ballerinas. Somehow...shyness stayed ashore..
...we swam out in salty heaven, it was to good to be real.
So I left her a silver dolphin, so that one day...in a place that she could see...so that one day
...out in her swimming, she might remember me.
From Luka Bloom -
I am an ultradistance runner (male); I experienced a great envy for the quads (quadriceps) of the dancer in the 7th photo.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)Sometimes my breath gets taken away by the beautiful things in this world.
Thanks, I needed that!
sheshe2
(86,903 posts)I needed this~
blackspade
(10,056 posts)But they are excellently shot.
alfredo
(60,129 posts)Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)My granddaughter wants to take ballet lessons. But I don't think she has the self-discipline for it. We put her acrobatic class and after a few months she didn't like it anymore, She started violin lessons a few months ago, so we'll see how long she lasts with that.
When I see dancers like these pictured, they make it look so easy. But it takes years of grueling practice and working out to achieve what we see here. I have huge respect for that.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)Beautiful, sheshe2! Thank you so much for posting these beautiful portraits.
sheshe2
(86,903 posts)Oh maybe not the picture, yet the message was clear!
1. Create Now Question Later
2. Fortune Favors the Bold
3.Do it with Love
Do it!~ Express yourself and make yourself heard! Do it.
Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)was promptly distracted from it.... I'm glad you added that, so I could be reminded. It is lovely!
CrispyQ
(37,975 posts)Thanks for posting!