The Cyberiad

Ballet dancer Anoushka Zoe James dances in the water at the Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo: Pilar Olivares/Reuters.

Improvisation in Rehearsal

The most important things rarely happen behind closed doors

A woman practices her dance moves in a park outside the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Photo: AFP/Mladen Antonov.

The Projectionist

• Keeping it reel: the dying art of the film projectionist – in pictures, The Guardian, April 19, 2016

Peter Howden, Rio Cinema, Dalston, London “While the Rio can still screen film, most of its shows are digital now. The rewind bench gets little use. Digital projection is low maintenance, so Peter spends a lot of the time in his office, checking his emails”. Photo © Richard Nicholson.