Screening & Talk by Daniel Baumann

Daniel Baumann presents: Bondy and Dance after the Revolution, from Tehran to L.A., and back

PART welcomes back curator Daniel Baumann (PART’s Curator-in-Residence in cooperation with Kunsthalle Wien) for an evening of film screenings, conversations and exchanges.

Daniel Baumann is an art historian, writer, and curator based in Basel. He was curator of the Adolf Wölfli Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts Bern and co-founded the Basel exhibition space New Jerseyy. He has curated internationally, including the 2013 Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, the annual Engadin Art Talks, and most recently Niko Pirosmani at Fondation Beyeler. From 2015 to 2025, he served as director of Kunsthalle Zürich.

(LA)HORDE: Bondy, 2017, 15:53 min
A collective portrait of the Parisian suburb Bondy, created through dance with local communities, from cheerleaders and seniors to swimmers, bikers, and TikTok kids. The film unfolds without commentary, showing how movement bridges generations and backgrounds. Founded in 2013 by Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, and Arthur Harel, (LA)HORDE works across communities and genres to explore the political and emotional force of the body.

They have led the Ballet National de Marseille since 2019.

Ramin & Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian: Dance after the Revolution, from Tehran to L.A., and back, 2020, 36:30 min
A gripping tale of dancer Mohammad Khordadian, whose exiled L.A. dance-aerobics tapes secretly reshaped Iran’s popular dance culture despite public dancing being banned. The film charts how a forbidden movement style traveled, multiplied, and returned home underground.

The Iranian trio, in exile in Abu Dhabi since 2009, creates collaborative works shown at major international institutions. Their practice spans film, performance, and installation, often probing power, translation, and collective imagination.