Canadian Duo Creates Life-Size Origami Costumes for Ballet Dancers

Montreal-based artists Melika Dez and Pauline Loctin joined forces in January 2018 to combine their imaginations in a creative collaboration. The end result, PLI.Ē Project, fuses Dez’s abilities as a motion photographer with Loctin’s experience in paper artwork and showcases dancers across the globe sporting hand-folded paper costumes. Loctin specifically designed each dress’s shape and color palette into the dancer who would be wearing it, and Dez worked to situate her models in iconic surroundings from the streets of New York City into the Louvre Museum in Paris. Loctin’s paper creations vary from resembling traditional ballet tutus to folded experimental contours.

Dez shares that the job came together in 2 stages: first as a studio shoot professional ballet dancers wearing Loctin’s creations, and afterward as a worldwide undertaking photographing dancers and costumes outside.

 

“Paper can be a delicate material to work with, and that is precisely the reason why we decided to make the impossible, possible. Whichever element we would be confronted with, water (rain), wind, we desired to show that we are limitless.”

You can view more from Loctin on Instagram and out of Dez on Instagram.

H/T fubiz

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Ballet Dancers Pose Nude on New York City High Vantage Points

Fascinating Dance Photography On The Historic Streets of Prague by Omar Z. Robles

Photographer Omar Z. Robles is back with a lot of his ongoing dance photography collection, which reflects ballet dancers moving across the streets of cities around the world.

This wasn’t Robles’ first time in the Czech funding; he’d visited more than ten decades ago and returned to find the timeless magnificence of the city had not changed from what he had remembered. The largest difference was inside himself, since this time he had been undergoing the city as a professional photographer.

“While Prague is very beautiful on its own, being able to pay a visit to the city one more time, with another point of view and objective made me appreciate it even more,” Robles shares. “The rhythm, the colors, the textures as well as the smells were all the same, yet I was able to perceive them very uniquely this time around. They had another meaning.”

Putting his dancers on the historical streets of Old Town, anyone who has seen Prague will instantly recognize the iconic Charles Bridge and winding cobblestoned roads which remind us of the city’s rich history. Robles even throws a few breakdancers to the mixture, bringing a sign of hip-hop modernity in between the classical dancers.

 

With the cold, silvery skies on screen and the dancers dressed and in colors of gray, black, and aubergine, it’s easy to feel the wintery soul that permeates the work. It’s these subtle changes across every location where Robles shoots that pulls out the characteristics of the respective cities, a feat as magnificent as the abilities of the dancers themselves.