Ballerinas in Places We Frequent (2)

Hanna

Keenan

Mai

Katie

Megan

Emily

Violeta

Kate

Hanna

Zarina

Dane Shitagi is the creator and photographer behind the Ballerina Project, clearly a popular site on Facebook with 870,000+ Likes.  There is so much about ballet, and ballerinas in particular, that are art personified.  Not only is the dance enthralling and even exalted, but also the lithe yet muscular bodies make for art.

We are accustomed to seeing ballet on stage, dancers in full costumes and musicians in the orchestra pit.  But Shitagi's photographs reverse convention on its head, and bring ballerinas to the places we walk everyday, the places with the familiar scent of steel and dust and foliage, the places where we hold on to things as a mooring.  These ballerinas bring their grace, where we seek grace, in what may be troubled, lonesome places.