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WHAT?

What is Lens Dans Fest?

Lens Dans is a Video Dance Festival dedicated to promoting, cultivating, and celebrating video dance projects created by artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds.

Lens Dans brings together screenings of selected video dance projects from our open call, live performances, workshops, conferences, open mics… AND MUCH MORE!

The first edition took place at La Vallée in Brussels on 11, 12, and 13 June 2021, becoming one of the first cultural events to take place after lockdown. Since then, Lens Dans has continued to grow, with three more editions held across Brussels and Barcelona!

For our 4th edition we are coming back to Barcelona, Spain from November 12-14th, 2026 and Brussels, Belgium on the 28th of November!

This year, we are launching OPEN CALLS for VIDEO DANCE and LIVE PERFORMANCE projects. The festival will feature selected film screenings, live performances, music, creative exchanges, conferences, and more.

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WHY?

Why Lens Dans Fest?

Lens Dans was born from the need to create a space where videodance can be showcased, shared, explored, and celebrated as an artistic discipline. As an interdisciplinary art form that brings together dance, film, and new media, videodance opens up new ways to experience movement and storytelling, allowing dance to travel beyond the stage to the screen.

This festival aims to acknowledge and consolidate video dance as a discipline, and to create a space of exchange, collaboration, and community between artists from different disciplines, backgrounds, and perspectives who can come together to connect, exchange ideas, collaborate, and grow.

Through the festival, we aim to strengthen the recognition of videodance as an artistic discipline while creating opportunities for exchange and collaboration between artists.

WHO?

Who are we?

Lens Dans Festival was founded by Mar Badal, a Barcelona-born photographer and videomaker based in Brussels, together with a team of collaborators from diverse artistic and cultural backgrounds who share the same purpose: to strengthen videodance as an artistic discipline and share this form of expression across Europe and beyond.

Our jury brings together international professionals from the audiovisual, film, and dance industries, offering a range of perspectives and expertise.

The festival is brought to life by the Lens Dans team and its collaborators, who work together across both cities to create a space for artists and audiences to connect, exchange, and celebrate videodance.