Where did you get the idea for this work?

It has as much to do with the fact that I am married to a dancer and I love dance. As an artist I am aware of the capabilities and limitations of photography. I felt it would be interesting if I could bring the element of time into dance photography. I didn’t want to make a movie; I wanted to make photos of dance that just moved a bit.

As I worked on the idea I realized that it offered an interesting opportunity to both archive and celebrate dance. I read recently that only something like 8% of U.S citizens will ever see dance live. If this project can make a small dent in that statistic, I would be very gratified.

There’s another aspect that is important to me: I see myself primarily as a portrait artist. This project has allowed me to explore new techniques of portraiture.

In an interview you described this project as "tapping into the secret world of movement." What does secrets do we find there?

Different people see different things. As a visual artist, for example, I see something different from what a dancer sees.