A view from Shoot cameraman
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In today’s digital age, where the information available online can easily give shape and reopen the stories how we look at the news in general, Luxembourg -based Baptist Hillbert and Katrina Barbosa’s production house, as we are, started an India tour with its latest composition. Shoot the cameraman.

This piece highlights contemporary social affairs which mainly belong to the new behaviors created by the digital age. The manufacturers have prepared new pieces of movement by combining choreographer art and latest technological innovations that leave the audience with difficult questions, based on the country’s socio-political environment.

After successful shows in Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Bangalore and Delhi, for Baptist, Co-Co-Cooperative Director and Choreographer Shoot the cameraman, Their piece speaks about the creation and performance of performance in India.

“When we started in 2015, we were making a lot of small pieces. Shoot cameraman Our first long piece is which we initially made for European audience and then decided to expand. Viewers from different countries can react to the same piece in different ways, ”Baptist says.

At the beginning of the construction process, the team was doing with the idea of ​​how we see information from digital media – whether it is a mobile phone or TV screen and how it can interfere with our attention. “Then, we wanted to dig deeply to analyze not only what the screen is politically meant for us, but also the objectives of those we consume every day.”

The Baptist further stated how the material available online has been armed through propagation over time in line with the political story of a particular country. “Our idea was to tell a story with our performance that shows all these approaches.”

Unlike a traditional performance, the baptist and his team came with the idea of ​​placing a screen in front of the stage, where he displayed a short film. “We presented the audience with an option – looking at the artists on stage or focusing on what is coming out on the screen. It also challenged the period of his attention. ,

The baptist said that the effect of any message varies on the basis of the working medium. “Even though we have movies and media that tell us about false information and fake news, with demonstration art we see it powered by the emotions depicted by the artists. This strengthens the story, which makes it quite different from looking at it on the digital platform. ,

Shoot the cameraman, As part of an ongoing Dance Festival Holding Space, conceptualized by the pickle factory dance foundation, was shown in India.

For more information go to www.picklefactory.in