Cade Martin: Wonderland

"When you look at things differently, STORIES emerge. There is beauty in the everyday. And when PEOPLE learn to look for it, they'll find inspiration in the least likely PLACES. That's when the narrative in the situation and in the subject comes into focus. And even fashion is dull without the right STYLE." This is the first thing you'll read when you visit Cade Martin's website. A photographer that captures stories. 

Cade Martin collaborated with Design Army and the Washington Ballet and came up with these story-telling photographs. Titled: Wonderland. 

100 Years of Style Dance

A cool video that celebrates a century of East London fashion, dance and music.

A Cashmere Affair

Cashmere is such a beautiful textile, so light and so soft, yet strong; just like a ballerina. I am wondering if that is the conclusion they came to, over at J. Crew when they decided to go shoot their September catalog all the way to St. Petersburg, Russia where they have some of the greatest ballerinas of all time.

I love the idea. 

The Ballerina Project

Photographer Dane Shitagi has been documenting the heart and emotions of ballerinas in urban settings over the span on ten years. The series of these photographs is called The Ballerina Project.

Fort Washington Park

Dance

*Sigh*.. dancing. So amazing. I love every kind of dance, except I have to confess, Modern Dance. My sweetie and I have been to several modern dance performances and tried to appreciate it but we just don't get it. It seems all they want to do is disturb the audience and we're not into that. We've had a bad experience. Anyway, I love everything else, from Ballet to Bollywood, from Flamenco and Mexican Folklore to Aerial.

I am a dancer myself as I danced for 10 years but stopped for about 5 years and I recently started dancing again (Ballet, and a little bit of Flamenco and Aerial) about 6 months ago and I couldn't be happier. I always missed it.

Below is a collection of beautiful dancing photographs to get you inspired. I've tried all those except Tango which I really want to try with my partner. We watch dancing TV shows together. At first he was hesitant but now he's into it and he wants to dance with me. Me as a short Hispanic woman and him a tall American Navy man, we feel we could do a lot of lifts easily.