"A wire apart" banner photo-shoot, with Sarah Holmes and Bado Redi

“A wire apart” a work in progress by Sarah Holmes and Bado Redi, Paper Doll Militia.

Sarah offered me a collaboration to create a banner for their work in progress, so I agreed on sharing my time with them to create some new photographs for their performance publicity.

A Wire Apart is a modern love story set in the surreal environment of our digitally connected world. Distanced by a world of wires, two lost individuals work on finding each other, but in doing so must first find themselves.
Using dance, physical theatre, tight-wire walking and original music, A Wire Apart explores the impact modern communication has on our mental health and ability to connect authentically with one another. (text extracted from: http://www.paperdollmilitia.com)

we had a magnificent space to work at, extra high ceilings, black out curtains all around the rehearsal space. it was Just the ideal space to work at.
When working with Sarah and Balazs was so straight forward and dynamic, their workflow and tema work is fantastic. Their poses were very strong and adequate, I barely had to correct anything. So I could focus on the lighting and the composition. Unfortunately I didn’t have an assistant, but our ideas worked just fine.
Here the four best images that we took.

Here are the best final pictures that we selected together

Here is one of our photographs used by one of the articles of Creative Scotland.

Here the photograph taken by me, that creative Scotland used for their article on August 2019. click Here to view the full article.

Butoh

Here we find Suzi. She is a professional dancer in love with Butoh dancing. Butoh is a Japanese form of dance that emerged in post-World War II, in Japan in 1959. It was tackling taboo topics, and it seems to evoke a more liberating and provoking - yet sometimes grotesque performance.

Suzi rehearsing at St Margaret’s house, Edinburgh

At the beginning I didn’t understand Butoh, so I went to search for people that could tell me more about this dance. But I couldn’t rationally understand it enough, so, I then kept on watching videos and reading about it. The moment that I saw Suzi dancing I started to feel what she meant.

I saw Suzi becoming a tree, and then telling the tale of its life time. I saw her transmuting from a death-dancing skeleton into a new born, to then see a crawling baby that would remind me of my own innocence.

Butoh is to be experienced, I unfortunately haven’t yet taken the first step, but soon I will find the time and courage to experience this mysterious dance.
So far, I have been collaborating with Suzi for over a year. We focus on discovering new facets of ourselves - me through the lens of my camera, while she finds a new shape, a new story to tell.