The two dance forms of ballet and krump couldn’t be more different—one is a centuries old classical dance technique, the other is a gritty, free-form style born from the streets. The two come together under the umbrella of The 360 Project from producer/director Ryan Enn Hughes with music by Zelig Sound. The project captures digital portraits exploring “peak dance movements” from both forms through the use of 48 Nikon cameras arranged in a circle in a pitch black room, using strobe lighting to create a bullet time effect. The two dance forms represent two opposite sides of the spectrum—one graceful, the other more manic and aggressive—and this very juxtaposition is what Hughes wanted to explore in the piece.The aim was to capture a “digital statue—a frozen, peak moment, embodying the essence of each dance form in 360 degrees.” And they certainly make for captivating images, with the colorful clothes of the krump dancers making them seem even more vigorous and energetic performances. As is stated on Zelig Sound’s Vimeo page, the end results are caught somewhere between photography and film, not quite fully one or the other. But that just makes them all the more interesting—you can watch the krump piece above and the ballet one below.Equally fascinating is the “making of” video (below), which discusses the importance of post-production to a project like this, and how they edited it together “like scratching a broken record” to create the epileptic effect that makes the piece so powerful.