In Buenos Aires a group of acclaimed dancers create the first Contemporary National Company of Dance under their collective leadership. This is the story of four talented dancers, Ernesto, Bettina, Victoria and Pablo, along six years of their journey. They expose their dreams and contradictions as dancers, individuals and members of a Company that is founded on collective decision-making. We follow their lives, we attend their rehearsals and performances in the emblematic National Library building as well as their premiere and backstage in the historical National Theatre of Cervantes. We observe the fulfillment of the entire dance community’s biggest dream: the public demand for a National Dance Law.
Julia Martinez Heimann
Julia Martinez Heimann is an Argentinean independent researcher and filmmaker. She has worked in public education, direction and production of documentaries and cultural series for Cinema and television in Buenos Aires since 2009. She is a member of the ONG ACA Educational and Artistic Organization through which she carries out social and educational projects like Dancing Identities (short film documentary series about dance and migration, 2022) and Debates y Combates (2016 weekly series on philosophy and politics). In 2017, she premiered her first documentary film “Trabajadores de la danza” (Working Dancers).
Konstantina Bousmpoura
Konstantina Bousmpoura studied Social Anthropology at the University of Seville and Economic Science at the Athens University of Economics. She holds a Diploma of Latin American Studies from the University of Salamanca. She works in research, direction and production of ethnographic documentaries in Buenos Aires, Seville and Athens since 2007.