Graceful Ballet Dancers Step Off the Stage to Electrify the Streets of Buenos Aires

Modern Dance Photography in Buenos Aires by Omar Z. Robles

Justina Dayloff

Photographer Omar Z. Robles documents the beauty of people and places around the work through his exquisite dance photography. For years, we've loved “traveling” with him to locales that have included New York City, Havana, Mexico City, Hong Kong, and more recently, Santiago, Chile. Each gives us a sense of the city's flavor, both in terms of architecture as well as ballet culture. Robles celebrates the individuality of a place by showcasing its unique buildings that are punctuated by the powerful, graceful movements of talented dancers.

Robles is always jetting off to somewhere new, and he recently shared with us his trip to Buenos Aires. “For years and years,” Robles writes, “I had been yearning of making my way to Argentina.” The rather spontaneous trip to the capital city was “short but intense,” and he ended up photographing six shoots in less than 48 hours—talk about a whirlwind!

Robles, however, thrived on this artistic intensity. “In all honesty it was overwhelming, and exhausting and for a brief moment I thought I was going nuts. But it was AWESOME AND TOTALLY WORTH IT!” Booking all of the photo shoots in such a short time frame forced him to visit many neighborhoods and allowed him to get a more complete sense of the place. “Buenos Aires was everything I imagined all [these] years and then some. The colors, architecture, the people, that beautiful porteño accent heard everywhere.” He sums it up with, “Was I dreaming?”

Photographer Omar Z. Robles travels the world to document dancers as they electrify the city streets with their graceful movements.

Modern Dance Photography in Buenos Aires by Omar Z. Robles

Mora Godoy & Cristian Ponce

Modern Dance Photography in Buenos Aires by Omar Z. Robles

Laura Penido

Modern Dance Photography in Buenos Aires by Omar Z. Robles

Justina Dayloff

Modern Dance Photography in Buenos Aires by Omar Z. Robles

Laura D’Onofrio

Modern Dance Photography in Buenos Aires by Omar Z. Robles

Margarita Peralta & Marcone Fonseca

Recently, he captured the modern dance photography in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Modern Dance Photography in Buenos Aires by Omar Z. Robles

Mora Godoy & Cristian Ponce

Modern Dance Photography in Buenos Aires by Omar Z. Robles

Laura D’Onofrio

Modern Dance Photography in Buenos Aires by Omar Z. Robles

Laura D’Onofrio

Modern Dance Photography in Buenos Aires by Omar Z. Robles

Margarita Peralta

Entranced by the colors, architecture, and people, Robles depicts many different neighborhoods.

Modern Dance Photography in Buenos Aires by Omar Z. Robles

Margarita Peralta & Marcone Fonseca

Modern Dance Photography in Buenos Aires by Omar Z. Robles

Camila Bocca

Modern Dance Photography in Buenos Aires by Omar Z. Robles

Laura Penido

See what went on behind the scenes in the video below:

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My Modern Met granted permission to use photos by Omar Z. Robles.

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Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met, Manager of My Modern Met Store, and co-host of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. As an illustrator and writer living in Seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog Brown Paper Bag and Instagram @brwnpaperbag. She wrote a book about embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning titled 'Embroidered Life' that was published by Chronicle Books in 2019. Sara is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her BFA in Illustration in 2008 and MFA in Illustration Practice in 2013.
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