Carrie's Workshop

Picture Perfect – How to get great performance photos AND give your audience your best
Friday 3:30-5:30pm
$45 through 6/21, $50 afterAs a not only a bellydancer for 14 years, but also as a professional bellydance photographer, Carrie often hears “I always hate how I look in my performance photos!”. In Picture Perfect, she discusses some simple things that you as a dancer to give your audience your best performance face, but ways you can help your photographer (or videographer) get the best opportunity to capture you on stage! We will discuss/workshop:

  • ​Giving good face
  • ​Eye contact
  • Connecting with your audience
  • Flattering body positioning
  • Breath in your dance
  • Using the stage to your benefit
  • Light and why it’s so important

​This is a lecture workshop that I promise you will go home with actionable things you can use for your dance practice as well as for organization for dance events! Bring a pen and note paper!

About Carrie Meyer

Carrie Meyer, the owner of The Dancers Eye Fine Bellydance Photography & Insomniac Studios, has had an interest in cameras and photography from a young age, when her parents first allowed her to experiment with several of their cameras. She fondly remembers her first Kodak Instamatic, and the variety of fun shots she was able to capture with it. She began to pursue her photography professionally in 2006, and in 2010, she opened her studios - The Dancers Eye, which focuses on bellydance portraiture and live bellydance performance photography, and Insomniac Studios, which offers portraiture and live performance photography as well. Her dance and theater background, and her love of music and the arts, has inspired and informed much of her performance photography. She has photographed many local, regional, national and international dancers, fire performers, and musicians. Regardless of the photographic subject matter, Carrie’s work shares certain commonalities. The thoughtful composition, clarity of images represented, and the meaning of the moments in time that she captures, all characterize her work. Her work builds out from the foundation, strength and power of the basic images, and captures the personality of her subjects. In her work for The Dancers Eye, she has married her love of bellydance with her love of photography. Carrie offers her dancer subjects a unique opportunity to work with an artist who truly understands the dance, and how dancers want themselves to be portrayed.