The Ballerina Project

I recently "liked" and became a fan of The Ballerina Project on Facebook.  This project started in New York and it is a photography collaboration between ballet, art, fashion against city landscapes.  Simply put this is modern art that people sell for an extrinsic value, but to so many artists in the world, myself included, there is so much more intrinsic motivations for this. If you want to make money in life don't have anything to do with the arts.  Whether its dancing, painting, singing or etc. you live paycheck to paycheck and the reason you continue to do what you love is based off of pure passion.  Since the age of four I have continuously strived for perfection in my dancing and even though I know it will never happen, the closer I do get to it each day is a special reward that no one can understand unless they personally go through it.  That is why the art community is so small and why we make instantaneous bonds with the artists around us; it's because we all understand.  In these pictures, there is a powerful contrast between the industrial city life and the graceful, careless ballerinas.  These ballerinas and their long, slender bodies create dominating lines that draw the viewer into this world that they will never be apart of.
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