Dance Lines

From the press release for the 2003 exhibition Dance Lines: Photographs by Stuart Allen. Courtesy Crocker Art Museum:

"Dance Lines is a series of black and white photographs made on-site in the Grand Ballroom of Sacramento, California's Crocker Art Museum. Building on the artist's previous investigations of time-based motion, Night Lines (1997–1998) and Studio Lines (2002), Dance Lines documents the intricate movement of dancers as they perform before the camera. Using a distinctly photographic device — the light trail produced by a moving light during a long exposure — the artist has recorded maps or diagrams of various dance forms on film. Though not a dancer himself, Allen has worked with specialists in a variety of disciplines, from ballet to swing, to determine the most effective sequence of moves for each image."