Jorge Bascuñan

Jorge Bascuñan is a Brazilian Freelance Artist, Teacher, and Choreographer, currently based in Frankfurt am Main. Since October 2016 he is involved in MA CoDE – master program in contemporary dance education (HfMDK, Germany). As educational Background, he completed his bachelor’s degree in Physical Education, and he is certificated in Cinematography and Actor’s Direction both at his hometown, São Paulo. Jorge is co-director of the ‘Baillistas Collective’ of Photography and Multi-art, and within his independent work, he questions constructed meanings of social masks, situating the body in coexistence with space. Merging photography, drawing, sounds, and text with movement research he understands dance as a way of communication contextualizing the research within the realm of art and politics.