I didn’t know what to expect when I agreed to photograph this dance workshop.
I don’t know much about dance. The few performances I’ve seen always made me feel slightly uncomfortable: emotions too raw, too direct, bodies speaking, everything happening right there, without distance.

Dancers seem at ease with that exposure. They offer their bodies and their feelings in a way that feels almost excessive to me, far from how I usually move through the world. An unease for me, but a kind of paradise for a photographer: an overload of emotions, feelings, bodies, all laid out, unavoidable.

I started reading a little about dance and dancers. I wanted to understand more. I came across Martha Graham, one of the central figures of modern dance, who wrote: “Dance is a song of the body, either of joy or pain.”

Watching these dancers, I understood what she meant. How much can be released through movement. How strong it is. How unsettling and how necessary

Komoco dance Company - Commissioned work.