Salvage: performance

Right before my trip to Italy, I shared a couple of promotional images I’d shot for Salvage, a collaborative performance happening in downtown Fort Myers. The (first, I hope) performance of Salvage was last Friday, and it was energetic and stunning. I had the privilege of attending the dress rehearsal to capture images there. Since the performance was an open floor in a large room (the Art Center used to be the post office, back when federal buildings were built to be beautiful), shooting at the final dress was fantastic, because I could circle around the entire stage without worrying about getting in anyone’s way or disrupting the performance. Visually, the show was a rare treat (and a huge change from sunny beaches!): the combination of the dancers’ movements and the lighting was just really beautiful.

I wanted to share a few of my favorite images here with you, but you can see more of them at the Dance Bochette website.

(If you are wondering, a special floor was built for the performance, but my eye was really captured by the dancers’ reflections in the marble floor of the art center. Really beautiful!) The concept and choreography for the show was by Alyce Bochette; the lighting was by Stuart Brown; the show also featured original poetry by Jim Brock and video by Rodney Woolsey.