Vladamir Malakhov, widely acclaimed winner of numerous awards and dancer of the century, is a dancer with the rare combination of technical brilliance and lyrical eloquence. His supple, androgynous body combines, power and purity, flash and elegance, melodrama and eye-boggling academic precision (New York Times)—when he leaps you feel gravity has been suspended. Above all, he is driven to achieve purity in his dance.
To date, nobody has come as close to this exceptional dancer and his ensemble as the German photographer Dieter Blum, who was granted exclusive permission to take photographs of the dancers in the nude. He has thereby captured the movements of this extraordinary artist in images that reflect this purity, and that also provide deep insight into the character of the ensemble.