uMoya
uMoya
For Liverpool Biennial 2023, South African dance theatre company Unmute Dance Theatre have collaborated with local dancers to explore lived experience of being d/Deaf, Disabled or Neurodivergent. The performance experiments with sign language to create choreography, centring accessibility and representation.
Bringing their bespoke choreography style derived from South African Sign Language, Unmute and guests, explored the body as a vessel for alternative, more accessible forms of communication that transcend spoken or written language. Engaging with ‘uMoya’ and the transition from catastrophe to joy, Unmute Dance Theatre and guests, use creativity to bring about emancipation, liberating themselves from conventional language. Unmute traces the way in which uMoya resides in the body as breath and breathing, interpreting movement as an extension and result of that breath. Like the wind in uMoya which is a form of language, holding histories and ancestral tales, the body is itself an unmuted language, speaking in abstract symbols of its lived experiences.
This project was commissioned by Liverpool Biennial with support from Art Fund, the British Council and Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Thanks also to Liverpool Hope University faculty for their in-kind support.
Aspectos sobre diversidad y/o accesibilidad:
País: South Africa
Duración: minutos
Género: Danza-teatro inclusivo
Año de estreno: 2023
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Ficha artística: Unmute Dance Theatre with Helen Cherry, Porcelain Delaney, Bogdans Demcuks & Adam John Roberts