Are you human or are you dancer?

Dance photography makes me sweat

Photographing dance is almost certainly the hardest subject I’ve ever been commissioned to shoot, and I love it.

Dance is not just about cutting the right shapes on the dance floor. Dance is about timing, and relationship, and space. Add to that costume, and setting, and lighting.

Blimey, what a subject.

The goal for a dance photographer is to capture in the frame what you feel you see in your eye. Get that right and the photograph is not just a record of a moment, it’s beauty - that’s choreography too.

Dance photography makes me sweat.

Here’s a selection of my dance images from the last decade, when I’ve been close to hitting that elusive sweet spot.

Gym Party, by Made in China, Heads Up Festival, Hull, 2013.

Street ballet, Hull City of Culture celebration event, summer 2014.

Revolutions, E52 theatre company, Hull Truck Theatre, 2015.

DANZA, Hull dance competition, 2015.

Going Places street performance, by Jo Ashbridge, Hull, 2016.

Poster shoot for ‘Going Places’, by dancer Jo Ashbridge, Hull, 2016.

The Way We Were, Hull, 2016.

Rave Space, by Will Dickie, Heads Up Festival, Hull, 2017.

Hull Day of Dance, 2017.

Hull Day of the Dead, 2017.

Driftwood, by Casus Circus, Back to Ours festival, Hull, 2018.

Fagin’s Twist, Avant Garde Dance company, Back to Ours festival, Hull, 2018.

Workshop by Hull Dance company, Back to Ours festival, 2019.

Dancing around a handbag at Back to Ours ‘Shindig’, Hull, 2019.

State of the Arts Academy perform at The Lord Mayor’s Rainbow Ball, Hull, 2020.

Hope you enjoyed these.

By the way, I am human.

Thanks for now,

Jerome