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Artist Statement for Dragana Stankovic
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I have always been fascinated by ballet and acrobatics: wide spaces... bodies in movement, in the moment of establishing balance ... on the trapeze... in the act of juggling... bodies which float without any support at intervals free from Earth's gravity. Movements defined by the shape of the body, the lenght of ligaments, the force of the muscles and elasticity .
What I am particulary interested in are the movements which happen against all the laws of flexibility of human skeleton and joints, as if they practically did not exist. Legs and feet strained to improve the balance... While straining they twist the hip, which in its turn affects the position of the spine. Ballet dancers and acrobats perform them automatically, with no reflection, and in doing so they bring all the parts of their bodies into an extraordinarily harmonious balance. The moments in which they jump into the air, perform complex movements while still in the air, and, equally balancing the weight of their bodies, they land on their feet - the foundations for balancing and support of the body.
My goal is to capture the moment of balance or the point of support in which the body touches the surface, or perhaps the momentum by which it performs its acrobatics in the air...
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