Aleksandar antonijevic biography of christopher
Aleksandar Antonijevic | Toronto's loss is Milan's gain!!
It might seem odd that a classically trained principal dancer with a storied 25-year career in ballet, like Aleksandar Antonijevic should choose to pursue photography as his post-dance vocation.
Portraits, fashion, theatre, fineart, dance.
Dance is, after all, the study and craft of motion, of bodies moving elegantly and thrillingly through space, and photography is the art of freezing motion in time. There is stillness in dance, of course, but photography is the very embodiment of stillness.
The image does not stir; it hangs there, static and unchanging. But the miraculous thing about Aleksandar’s photographs (and this is where you can perhaps sense the dancer behind the lens) is that if stare at them long enough, they seem to move.
A photograph doesn’t really make sense until there is someone looking at it; the real value lies somewhere in the conversation between changeless photographs and live viewers.
This is where Aleksandar’s interest lies: in crafting a conversation between the subject of the photo and the viewer, bet