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

“NOT FROM HERE” is filmed in the South Africa’s Karoo and is a startling journey into ideas of home, belonging and where we come from. It is a confluence of dance, fashion, film and a deeply insightful look at stories of origin.

P No Mundo Dance Company Out Of The Box

Choreographers/ directors/ dancers Cláudia Nwabasili and Roges Doglas

Filmmaker

City

Time

Osmar Zampieri

São Paulo, Brazil

23 minutes

In this project covered by the PROAC LAB notice – an award for history of achievement in dance - we carried out a choreographic intervention at the Artium Institute during the Felice Varini exhibition.

OUT OF THE BOX is about being outside the black box, outside the stages and occupying different spaces, but it is, above all, outside the box in the sense of breaking with stereotypes that place us in some places and remove us from so many others. For us, the main reflection of this work is: what will be the Brazilian classic in the future?

By dancing, we are (re)visiting our stories and (re)knowing our past. So, we launch our arrows into the future.

This film will be followed by a Q&A, please see further details at serendipity-uk.com

TICKET: £25