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DANCE FILM OPEN CALL

UNTIL FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Artist Talk

Pak Ndjamena
Ivan Barros
Sunday 20. Feb 2022
20:30 GMT+1
Room B
  • Zoom Talk
International

| Synopsis

Join us for an after-program discussion with the artists via Zoom. We invite you to take part in a deeper discussion with the artists about their work and the relationship to the curatorial theme “rethinking the reality and fiction of theatre dance through the screen” and the state of dance film and dance streams.

| Credits

with Pak Ndjamena & Ivan Barros

Ivan Barros

| Biography

Ivan Barros is a Mozambican photographer and videomaker. Enthusiastic and passionate about audiovisual work, he is constantly working with Mozambican contemporary dancers to promote the country’s artistic scene and to challenge himself out of his comfort zone.

His career has led him to travel across almost all of rural Mozambique, enabling him to share bits and pieces of his country with the world through Instagram – @ivanrsbarros

| Biography

Ivan Barros is a Mozambican photographer and videomaker. Enthusiastic and passionate about audiovisual work, he is constantly working with Mozambican contemporary dancers to promote the country’s artistic scene and to challenge himself out of his comfort zone.

His career has led him to travel across almost all of rural Mozambique, enabling him to share bits and pieces of his country with the world through Instagram – @ivanrsbarros

Pak Ndjamena

| Biography

Pak Ndjamena is a multifaceted artist that encompasses multiple crafts including being a dancer, choreographer, cultural promoter, musician and actor.

Pak Ndjamena does not see art as linear but as collaborative, having collaborated with artists of various artistic genres and diverse geographical locations during his career. Even so, Pak Ndjamena does not consider himself fluent in any language nor belonging to a geographical territory dissociated from art. Despite being proud of his African roots, he considers himself a world citizen and views art as a common language that enables one to communicate with counterparts from any place in the world. As a result of this vision, Pak has traveled to more than 10 countries to exhibit his art in its various forms. With contemporary dance as the most prevalent art in his artistic career, Pak choreographed and performed more than 20 pieces and was the winner of the Mozal Arts & Culture Award 2019 in the dance category in Maputo, Mozambique.

| Biography

Pak Ndjamena is a multifaceted artist that encompasses multiple crafts including being a dancer, choreographer, cultural promoter, musician and actor.

Pak Ndjamena does not see art as linear but as collaborative, having collaborated with artists of various artistic genres and diverse geographical locations during his career. Even so, Pak Ndjamena does not consider himself fluent in any language nor belonging to a geographical territory dissociated from art. Despite being proud of his African roots, he considers himself a world citizen and views art as a common language that enables one to communicate with counterparts from any place in the world. As a result of this vision, Pak has traveled to more than 10 countries to exhibit his art in its various forms. With contemporary dance as the most prevalent art in his artistic career, Pak choreographed and performed more than 20 pieces and was the winner of the Mozal Arts & Culture Award 2019 in the dance category in Maputo, Mozambique.