“I always thought it would be nice to do a ballet film which is not a typical, beautiful Swan Lake-style production,” says the Copenhagen-based photographer Esteban on his foray into film. Set in an old fabric hall in Dusseldorf, La Primavera Negra (Spanish for ‘The Black Spring’) is an unbridled portrait of one of the German ballet's brightest talents, 22-year-old danseur Jackson Carroll. Draped in Yohji Yamamoto and Dries Van Noten, in one swooping single-camera shot Carroll moves fluidly to a contemporary take on Vivaldi’s “Summer” by German avant-garde composer Max Richter. “I told Jackson, no matter if you need a break, or change the moves or the speed, we are just the observers of your personal four minutes.”