The Urban Ballerina

December 10, 2010 2:14 PM

Ballerina Project — Nine years ago, young photographer Dane Shitagi walked up New York City’s Broadway towards the highly patronized and well known STEPS dance studios in search of a ballet dancer who could help him begin his project: to capture images of ballerinas in urban environments. Those images first started appearing on Blogspot, but have since migrated to Facebook. [via]
posted by netbros (9 comments total)

I thought this was going to be about last night's episode of Fringe.

(if you don't know why, you're better off not knowing)
posted by Servo5678 at 2:46 PM on December 10, 2010

I found the one with the empty fridge really disturbing, given the ballet context.
posted by naoko at 2:50 PM on December 10, 2010

Legs!
posted by Faze at 2:51 PM on December 10, 2010

Feet!
posted by nicwolff at 4:02 PM on December 10, 2010

Necks!

Regarding the term "ballerina," an ex-girlfriend, who had danced professionally since childhood, shared a stage with Baryshnikov, and was in the core de ballet of American Ballet Theater, would correct anyone who called her a ballerina. That term, she said, was reserved for principal soloists.
posted by StickyCarpet at 5:38 PM on December 10, 2010

Corps de Ballet, it's corporeal!
posted by StickyCarpet at 5:47 PM on December 10, 2010

DANCERS!
posted by AsYouKnow Bob at 7:08 PM on December 10, 2010

He sure does seem to run into a lot of rain on photo shoots...
posted by fyrebelley at 8:32 PM on December 10, 2010

Wow! Many of these are fantastic.
posted by jacquilynne at 12:35 AM on December 11, 2010