A pas de deux of dancer and horse. Pointe shoes and hooves, classical ballet and dressage, the dance of the horse, together in one image.
Dressage, where a horse performs special movements on the rider's instructions, reminded me of classical ballet. A horse walks on the tips of its toes; so does a ballerina on her pointe shoes. Both are movement artists, doing pirouettes. After a long search, I managed to find the professional dancers of the Dutch Don't Dance Division willing to pose with horses. This resulted in a beautiful series of images where dancers and horses entered into a dance and found connection in the process.