Spinning Dancer

Dancer Nicholas Bodych. Guest used a strobe lighting technique to achieve the effect, making the dancers look almost like superheroes. Photo: Rick Guest.

Oihana Vesga Bujan from Richard Alston Dance Company. Guest and the stylist Olivia Pomp spent a day with the company in 2015 and photographed them at a studio in east London. Photo: Rick Guest.

• Are they human or dancer? Richard Alston’s move machines – in pictures, The Guardian, March 10, 2016