“Ballet!” is the latest motion project from filmmaker and photographer Ryan Enn Hughes.

Here’s what Ryan had to say about the project:

Below is my newest project – “Ballet!”. This project was made possible by the support of the Ontario Arts Council’s Chalmers Arts Fellowship – which is presently funding my longterm project to ‘explore the structural elements of the moving image’. The on-screen subject is Dancer Rebecca Connor of Canada’s National Ballet School. Huge thanks to The National Ballet School for working with me on this project. I really enjoyed learning about the artform and the NBS was very accommodating in allowing me to sit in on senior classes. Ballet! was created in a similar manner to my project RGB MOVE – it is comprised entirely of still images and lit exclusively with photographic strobes. The camera used was Canon’s EOS 1D Mark IV. The lighting was Broncolor’s Scoro A4S packs. Thanks to Photographer Arash Moallemi who was instrumental during the testing and production stages of this project. I collaborated closely with Editor Kyle Wilson during post-production. The Music was scored by James Crosby. As with all of my work I handled the colour grading personally. In addition to the actual project, below is also a short behind the scenes video that shows a little bit about the process of creating “Ballet!”.

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Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the production of Ballet!

©Ryan Enn Hughes