The studio is located in the Silos at Sawyer Yards, which are former grain silos turned into studios and galleries. Though not many of the studios and galleries were open that Saturday morning, we enjoyed admiring the varied art on display in the corridors and listening to the live music in one of the common spaces before and after the photoshoot.
Because the photoshoot lasted all day, the dance moms left their dancers in capable hands and headed to, first, a charcuterie brunch; second, rescue a friend with car trouble; and third, the Karbach Brewery.
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| Missing a few of our dance mom friends - I should have done a better job of capturing our day and the places we visited, but somehow this is the only picture I managed. |
Back to the photoshoot...
Ashkan Roayaee himself is widely known as the Houston area's foremost dance photographer, and the hundreds of incredible images he captured throughout the Elements Academy of Dance session certainly proved his creativity and talent.
The girls and their directors truly enjoyed working with Ashkan, and I think he enjoyed them as well - it sounds like they were professional yet enthusiastic, cooperative yet creative, and willing to experiment, absorb feedback, and make corrections as needed.
Dance is one of the hardest sports to do well. (I've played quite a few sports throughout the years and I've recently started dancing, so I feel qualified to make that statement.) It requires strength and flexibility and balance and stamina. It requires focus and memorization. It requires musicality and creativity. And because dance is also an art form, it expects - no, it requires - its athletes to appear calm, composed, and effortlessly beautiful at all times. Ashkan did an amazing job of capturing all of these facets of dance in these photos (follow us on Instagram @elementsacademyofdance to see more images in the coming weeks)...I just hope Hallie and her friends can see their athleticism and beauty like I can.
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