"In photographer Thibaut Grevet's New York City Ballet Art Series commission, the images are structured in phases - "as a dance is" - moving through preparation, repetition, performance, rest. Each has its own visual language; close crops of a dancer's focused face; full-lengths of soloists beating limbs; group shots with breezy serpentine asymmetry; and, when colour enters, bodies absorb the chemical yellow of mercury lamps."
"Photographers recognise and pull the decisive moment from the wash of time. Sometimes, the moment is conspicuous - take skateboarding: Grevet explains, "I don't want to compare [skate videos] to ballet, but at the same time, you need to catch an instant, you need to be able to react and understand the way to position the camera to get the tricks properly. There are rules.""
Thibaut Grevet produced a New York City Ballet Art Series set in phased sequences: preparation, repetition, performance, and rest. Each phase employs a distinct visual language: close crops of focused faces, full-lengths of soloists mid-beat, and group frames with serpentine asymmetry. Selective color saturates bodies with the chemical yellow of mercury lamps. Grevet's prior subjects include BMX riders, Formula One cars, A$AP Rocky and Kim Kardashian, and his stills commonly contain implied movement. The work examines how photography captures decisive moments while signifying prior and subsequent motion. Historical strategies to fuse image and movement include Muybridge's and Marey's sequential studies.
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