stephanie o'connor

As a member of dance communities, Stephanie O’Connor has intimate access to frenzied dance floors. In Moon Music, O’Connor captures the fervent energy and ritual of collective dance circles and battles from the sidelines, an engaged spectator slowing time through the lens.

The ritual of dance offers a collective competitive sphere; a circle of trust and exchange, a biomusical impulse to move the body to a rhythm. O’Connor distills this flow-state energy into a static image; the frozen moment of performance forever threatening to keep moving – or collapse.