On Sunday evening I popped over to Melton Mowbray to shoot 1st Class Pole Fitness's show.

Now dance photography was my nemesis way back in the late 1990's. I had done some work (lighting & sound) for a few local dance companies at a college I was working at. I'd seen the photographers there and thought to myself 'I can do this'. So during a tech rehearsal armed with my fathers SLR camera and 10-12 rolls of film (yep, film, iso 400 36 exposures) I began shooting.

Did the entire show.

Then waited a few weeks for the films to be developed and printed at 8x10.

Got the prints back and out of 400 odd photos only 6-8, 10 at a push were any good!

I was horrified at how badly i'd done, and how much it had just cost me! I stopped doing any photography until I purchased my first digital camera at this point!

Looking back i can see where i went wrong.

So photographing this dance show was going to be a challenge for me, a challenge that involved low light (no flash allowed) fast movement and multiple person dance routines..

Overall I feel quite good about it, and had a really great evening doing it. The performers were all excellent. There were times when i simply forgot to shoot as I was engrossed in the performance.

Here are a few shots, the full set can be found on my facebook page.