This breathtaking photography will make you wish you were a ballet dancer
March Mercanti | CBC Arts | Posted: June 13, 2017 10:00 PM | Last Updated: June 13, 2017
'There was something emotional about it that really grabbed me'
Photographing ballet requires a particular eye, and Karolina Kuras has had that since she was a kid.
Kuras grew up living and breathing ballet (or, as she would put it, "I was a complete bunhead"). While she still dances non-professionally today, Kuras has turned her attention to creating moody and elegant images of ballet dancers. But her background in dance has been vital: she knows the language and the movements, and the trust she's built with her subjects shines through in her images.
In this video, we get to watch Kuras use her favourite vintage film camera to capture National Ballet of Canada dancer Clare Peterson. And it's just in time — Peterson is part of The National Ballet of Canada's Swan Lake at Toronto's Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, June 15-25. You can get tickets here.
Thank you to Clare Peterson (Corps De Ballet - National Ballet of Canada) and makeup artist Ashley Readings.
Watch Exhibitionists on Friday nights at 12:30am (1am NT) and Sundays at 3:30pm (4pm NT) on CBC Television.