Catharsis #1 by Pierre-Elie de Pibrac

Catharsis is a very personal and abstract approach to dance. Employing a new vision and technique, Pierre-Elie attempted to capture the energy radiated by the dancers during their performances and its diffusion into the surrounding space. Each ballet imbued him with strong emotions, urges, apprehensions, and fantasies that he tried to transpose into photographic thoughts, like childhood memories. The result is powerful images that, through their distortion and natural abstraction, tell other stories. Thus, when looking at these photographs, the observer is permeated by the energy and emotion they transmit, and left free to interpret them personally.