CHOREOTOGRAPHY™ by Leslie Arlette Boyce The art of creating and arranging choreography to specifically to appear in a photograph for accompanying a live performance or in an installation, a photographic memory of choreography.
I approach choreography for the camera in a very different manner than other photographers. For others, the dancer is the tool so that the a story can be communicated to the viewing audience. In my works, the particular pulse, and strengths as well as the weaknesses of the model plays an important role in the shaping of the story. The juxtaposition of strength and weakness is what we are all wired for, and often run from. Creating the photograph comes from the experience of partnering as in a duet, fully merging the art forms of photography and choreography. Images are created with the determination to either illustrate or shatter global perceptions of beauty. Choreotographyâ„¢ is fashioned by the statement that is created at the moment shooting and in post shooting composites. Two of the photographs submitted contain fewer individuals than the viewer might perceive. Perceptions about beauty are rarely in concert with the vulnerability that exists within the individual. Yet we continue to assume that we always see all that there is to see.