Sunday Snapshot: Klara’s Rehearsal

Many dancers utilize the camera to document moments in their dance life. I am not always looking for professional shots in the Flickr pool, but something that captures what it is to dance and be a dancers. Rehearsals are certainly part of the life of a dancer. This hazy, dream-like photo is by Alannah Cataldo, who is a pre-professional dancer, currently a member of Ballet Chicago Studio Company. She says, “I have no real photographic experience I just take pictures of my dance friends during rehearsals and performances for our own enjoyment. I took this picture in a rehearsal for Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre‘s Contemporary Nutcracker as performed by Conservatory of Dance Studio Company. The girl in the photo is “Klara” and she is about to pick up the sword, illuminated, and kill the Mouse Queen in revenge of her dead Nutcracker.”