Dancing vulnerability at flamenco tempo

Photographer

Valentina Benigni

Category

Minimalist Photography - Silhouetted Moments

Company

VB PRODUCTION

Submission Group

Professional

Year

2024

Country / Region:

France

This artistic project, launched in 2020 and still ongoing, is made of photographs taken during live flamenco performances in France and Spain. A journey that tells of the courage to express one's own vulnerability and to dance it, to the rhythm of one's own emotions. Dance is a means of expression that can channel and liberate emotions, capable of expressing them unfiltered and transmitting them even to those unfamiliar with dance. An artistic approach which, through dance and photography, aims to sensitize people to recognize their own emotions, to accept their vulnerability, to give it space and live it without barriers. Flamenco, a traditional dance inscribed on the World Heritage List, was born in the working classes and expresses itself through improvisation, the spontaneous expression of emotions with intensity, authenticity and strength, without fear of showing one's own vulnerability. In a world that encourages us to wear masks to be accepted, to filter our emotions and conform, the aim is to reconnect with ourselves, to look our emotions in the face, to accept our vulnerability and make it our strength.

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