Ice cold, body and blade

The hidden world of artistic ice skating comes alive: worn skates, rough ice, chilled skin, and quiet pauses betweentraining and performance. The rink is hostile and cinematic, a stage where skaters glide, stumble, fall, and rise,caught between risk and grace, exhaustion and spectacle. At times raw and documentary, at others abstract andsurreal, like fashion tableaux. Solos drift in isolation, groups pulse in coordinated rhythm. Moments hang in the airbefore the harsh return to ice. Ice meets flesh, cold against warmth, revealing fragility, resilience, and the raw poetry of movement.

Concept & Photography : Anne-Sophie Soudoplatoff

Stylist : Jordan Kelsey

Skaters : Alisa Krasulya, Jessica Marjot, Harriet Rushmer, Méghane De Croock 

Movement Director : Ed Munro

Hair : Kei Takano

Make-Up : Phoebe Walters Nails : Simone Cummings

Set Design : Lizzie Gilbert

Production : Birdhouse

Cinematographer : Daniel Jackont

Original Music & Sound Design : Dimitri Soudoplatoff