52 Portraits, an online project created by choreographer Jonathan Burrows, composer Matteo Fargion and video maker Hugo Glendinning and supported by Sadler's Wells, will release a short gestural portrait of a different dancer each week throughout 2016 from Monday 4 January 2016.
The subjects of the portraits will be drawn both from the UK dance scene and from international companies visiting Sadler's Wells during the year. Each portrait will be a very personal dance, filmed sitting at a table and accompanied by a song based on the subject's life, inspired by a tune of his or her choice.
Participants will be of all ages, disciplines and cultural backgrounds, including both well-known performers, makers and younger artists.
52 Portraits builds on the The Elders Project, made by Burrows and Fargion in 2014 for the Elixir Festival at Sadler's Wells.
The portraits aim to "capture the profound, funny and surprising power of the subjects, revealing the stories, thoughts and struggles of dancers in an unprecedented way" in a project described by its creators as "an epic love song written to an art form".