I did a shoot that was similar. I did a shoot photographing a Mestre and his student doing Capoeira.


My setup. Black curtain, tungsten light used for motion capture and strobe used to freeze it. I'll look for the film nd post the image.

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It was more complicated than that.  Here's the setup.

>>>  I had access to a small theater.  The back curtain was black velvet, and the stage itself was black.

>>>  I used the back row of stage lights to light the dancers from behind.

>>>  There were basically no other lights.

>>>  I marked the limits of the dancer's boundries so that they stayed inside the image frame.  Then they just moved.

>>>  Exposures were long -- up to 90 seconds.  (I calculated exposure as if the shutter speed was only 1/4 second, and I had the dancers not stay in any one spot for very long.

>>>  In some of these series, I fired off the strobes to add an additional element to the images.

>>>  In some of these images, I asked the model to freeze, using her muscle control to burn in an image of her figure.

>>>  In some of these images, I gave the models flashlights to hold in their hands.  Hint:  give them two matched flashlights, one for each hand -- otherwise they get off-balanced.  (See the streaks in the second picture?  That's the flashlights).

>>>  In general, these images required much darkroom skill.

Thanks for sharing.

I have another dance shoot coming up in 2 weeks.
I will have to give it a try if there is time at towards the edge of the shoot.