INTERNATIONAL VIEWINGS
Tuesday 7 November 2023 10:00am GMT - Films available to view from this time 1:00pm GMT - Q&A with Pe No Mundo Dance Company JOMBA! CONTEMPORARY DANCE EXPERIENCE Celebrating its twenty-fifth dance festival with their curatorial provocation “(in)tangible heritages”, JOMBA! explores work through both live and digital performances, workshops and artistic encounters, to interrogate a series of dance offerings that negotiate the intersectional trajectories that have allowed us to arrive at this place as critical dance makers. Their digital platform, OPEN HORIZONS, is where several African dance artists showcased their work responding to this topic using choreography and videography. Exorcism Choreographer and dancer Tshediso Kabulu City Durban, South Africa Time 3 minutes Third Place for JOMBA! Open Horizon “EXORCISM” is a deeply personal film around spiritual cleaning and African rituals that honour the ancestors. A lone male figure sits at the ocean and begins to face up to his ‘calling’ eventually stops the fight and enters the scared water to cleanse himself. When Time Stops Creative Director and dancer Maulid Owino Director Heri Choreographer Dance Unites City Nairobi, Kenya Time 3 minutes Second Place for JOMBA! Open Horizon “When time stops” is a jolt into the frenetic urban landscape of Nairobi and the bustle and hustle of contemporary life, offset by a lone male figure who is trying to find a way to get time to stop in order to breathe and find freedom. Not From Here Director Oscar O’Ryan Choreographer and Art Direction Louise Coetzer Dancers Farnel Smart Lee Koteze The Inspirations Youth Dance Company City Cape Town, South Africa Time 3 minutes First Place for JOMBA! Open Horizon 8
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