Rubia Stri in burlesque (Patreon)

I think one of the first times I had an opportunity to shoot with a Dancer was when Rubia  contacted me. She did show dancing so I managed to get hold of some burlesque feathers to play around with. 

The setup to this is fairy easy and you can see most of it in the movie:

One of those 5-in-one popup screens that unfold like a tent. The center one is a transparent diffuser and I just shot my Large fresnel through that. I might as well have used just a big reflector but it needs to be something that has a controlled light beam, and ideally not a too small pointed lightsource as the light otherwise will be a little too hard.

Then a V-flat/Foamcore behind the screen to prevent light spilling on the background,

And opposite the model similarity a foam core/V-Flat with the black side towards the model to prevent reflected light from the room to hit the model.

On one of the attached images I darkened the background (basically made a path around the lower part of the model and filled it with the same color as the wall has behind the feathers. I didn't want to do cut-outs of the feathers. And then I just added this color in multiply or darken mode, I can't remember which so it would block out everything but the models shadow at the feet. Check out my complete retouch course if you are interested in blending modes, I use them all the time.