

A university dance studio, shot into a wall of tall windows so the glass burns out to pure white and every body reads as a dark mass against it. She is half crouched at the side of a student, over to the right, in a black camisole leotard over black footless tights; her weight is low, both knees bent under her, and the line of her own back and hip is turned toward the camera. Two fingertips of her right hand press on the front of the student's lower ribs, back and down; her left hand is out in the air drawing the direction. Her eyes are up on the mirror across the room, not on the student. The student is a young woman of nineteen, in the standard student uniform - a high-cut black sleeveless leotard, bare legs, bare feet, hair tied back, standing with her right arm straight up overhead and her left arm hanging dead at her side. The wooden barre runs as one horizontal line behind them. Camera at hip height, side on, tilted slightly up, close. backlit through the window wall, three tones only - white window, mid grey floor, black bodies, sharp focus on the fingertips. In the lower right corner, a pencil signature: Ziggy