PHOTOGRAPHY MEETS CHOREOGRAPHY

The art project titled ‘Photoreographia’ is the curation of a photographic concept based on the resolution of contradiction: dance as movement through time and photography within a moment. To achieve this, the art photographer András Dobi asked several professional choreographers from all over Germany to choreograph dance pieces for this special occasion. In 2022, András Dobi was one of the five global winners of the Fujifilm GFX Challenge Grant, which gave him the opportunity to develop this art project to its current state.

‘Photoreographia’ is an act of artistic fusion. A specific choreography designed for the occasion is captured in a unique image. It represents the choreography with all the artistic decisions contained in it. The two main differences between traditional stage-oriented choreography and ‘photoreographia’ are linearity in time and orientation in space. Since the main aspect of this art project is to represent an entire sequence in a single image, the end result is a visual imprint of the choreographer’s decision on where and how the dancer should move.