INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE
“DEUS NOS ACUDI” - Pak Ndjamena (Moçambique)
In Africa and the world, magic is seen as a way of achieving power, with rituals of certain sects, or simply by repeating patterns of behavior. Tradition, whether through oral tradition, symbols, manuscripts, sacred objects and even body movements, evokes the ancestry of an entire society. In the contemporary world, for the globalized individual, racial difference is ambivalent, since it confers power but also marginalizes. Moments when everything is black, and we cannot see with our eyes, we feel life in a deep dream of anguish and pain, but when we wake up we find ourselves in chaos and we are just a body in the world, carrying all this experience in our luggage, even if unconscious. Fiction is put into a real form in the space under the imagination of incarnation: The image of the body in movement generates different moments of doubt, choice and opinions!
DATE: 11/08, FRI
TIME: 8:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Centro Cultural Porto de Trás, Itacaré/BA
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Choreography and interpretation: Pak Ndjamena
Lighting: Dany Sarmento
Production: João Adriano Mucuapera
Pak Ndjamena
Pak Ndjamena is a multifaceted artist with proven qualifications and experience in the artistic field, as a Dancer, Choreographer, Contemporary Dance Teacher, Actor, Director of Contemporary Dance Films. With several experiences and cultural knowledge, deeply influenced by African dances from West Africa (Mali, Ghana, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Togo), South Africa and Mozambique, where he has his cultural origins. Pak has choreographed and interpreted more than 20 pieces and was the winner of the Mozal Arts & Culture Award 2019, in the dance category in Maputo, Mozambique. Ndjamena has been running the `Tremuria Project` workshops, a new therapy through the dancing body in Africa, Europe and Latin America and has performed at renowned international festivals with his solo work “DEUS NOS ACUDI”.