Emily Kim is a highly elegant ballet dancer and ballet model with a strong photographic presence. She is connected with Turning Pointe Dance Academy and its Ballet Conservatory Program, where she studies the Cecchetti Method of Ballet. Her dance background also includes ballet, contemporary dance, competitions, scholarships, and professional dancewear modeling, giving her images a polished and versatile character.
Emily is especially interesting for ballet photography because of her long-grown ballerina body. Her very long legs and arms create extended, elegant, and refined ballet lines, making her ideal for classical ballerina portraits, pointe photography, editorial dance images, and outdoor ballet shoots in iconic city locations.
Her proportions work beautifully in front of the camera. In arabesque, attitude, développé, tendu, relevé, retiré passé, allongé, cambré, and soft port de bras, Emily can create lines that look long, clean, and highly graceful. Her limbs give the poses a natural sense of scale, while her control and placement keep the images elegant and precise.
Emily also has a very distinctive and photogenic face. Her look is memorable, refined, and slightly unexpected, giving the images a special international quality. This makes her not only a strong ballerina, but also a very effective ballet model for visual storytelling, dancewear-style photography, and elegant editorial ballet images.
With Contourz Ballet Photography, Emily worked in both Paris and New York, creating a particularly exciting international photo series. The Paris shoots included the Eiffel Tower area, Rue de l’Université, Esplanade du Trocadéro, and a studio shoot at Rooom Studio Sable. These locations gave her images a polished Parisian atmosphere, combining classical ballet lines with architecture, city elegance, and a strong fashion-inspired mood.
The New York shooting at the David H. Koch Theater created a different but equally powerful feeling. The location is closely connected with Lincoln Center and the New York ballet world, giving the photos a clear stage and performance atmosphere. Emily’s long lines worked very well against the clean architecture, steps, plaza space, and cultural identity of New York City.
Her images are especially strong because she can combine elegance with modern presence. She does not appear heavy or overly theatrical; instead, her ballet photography feels light, long, refined, and visually clean. Her long arms, long legs, pointe work, controlled upper body, and expressive face create images with a strong fashion-ballet crossover feeling.
Emily Kim stands out in the Contourz Ballet Photography collection as a highly elegant and exciting ballet model. With her Cecchetti ballet background, dance conservatory training, competition experience, modeling presence, extremely long ballet lines, distinctive face, and memorable shoots in Paris and New York, she represents a beautiful example of modern international ballet photography.
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