From collection Kosti Ruohomaa Collection
Square Dancing 2
In this image taken after a brief square dance lesson, a man and a girl -- probably father and daughter -- try a promenade toward the camera. Onlookers watch, smile and clap in time to the music.
Ruohomaa focusses on how the participants' interplay reflects the process of learning, and the sense of nervous anticipation amidst the sometimes awkward and unfamiliar proximity of neighbors and strangers. In this improvised dance hall Kosti finds his preferred subject matter: the folkways of ordinary people at work and as here, at play.
