[If you're really in the mood to dance after this article, make sure you head over to our FLUX, Funk Edition party tomorrow night. We've got a bonafide dance party going down.] Perhaps it is the idea of freezing and capturing a moment of an art dedicated to rhythm and movement that makes dance photography so fascinating but professional dancers and dance enthusiasts have really been making their presence felt on Instagram lately, offering a glimpse into their worlds in the most intriguing ways.
Fresh-faced rehearsal captures, sweat beads and beaming smiles post-performance. Backstage sneak peeks, snatches of their life onstage and off of it, legs gracefully tapering to a ballet shoe-clad tiptoe and more. We were even more delighted to find that the glamour of dancing co-existed peacefully with the beauty of quiet moments from day-to-day life. And thankfully, these guys aren’t afraid to experiment beyond X Pro II and Lo-Fi.
Homegrown combed the coves of Instagram - which has racked up about 150 million monthly users since it joined the social media juggernaut Facebook, in 2012 – to come up with 14 of the best Instagram feeds that’ll have you reaching for your own dancing shoes:
“It is a part of our culture, this is how we celebrate”.
‘It is created only in a particular place at a particular time,’
‘And it never looks the same.’
Words: Aditi Dharmadhikari
[If you're really in the mood to dance after this article, make sure you head over to our FLUX, Funk Edition party tomorrow night. We've got a bonafide dance party going down.]
