Combining two passions

‘Falling Angel’

‘Falling Angel’

For the set design of my last creation with the Ballett am Rhein I used a photo that I specially shot to use in this particular scenery.

It is a female figure, floating in the air, slightly blurred - a falling angel as I like to call it.

Photography has always been for me an alternate way to create art, tell a story or simply express myself differently.

Following a long lineage of hobby/semi-pro photographers of my father and grand-father I started photographing since I was a little boy.

What attracts me with this media is the direct capture of our near environment and how can we transcend the most insignificant item or landscape into a visual art composition. As a choreographer I am drawing by space, forms and of course the human body in its quintessential powerful vector of emotions.

Photography is not - in my opinion - so remote from dance. It captures the body and/or a subject, space, plays with depth and conveys emotion.

Shaping a choreography is quite similar to composition in photography. To me at least.

If you are curious about my photos, you can check them on www.martinchaixphotography.com

Martin Chaix

Choreographer and photographer living in Germany

https://www.martinchaix.com
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