uValo (2012) for Screendance Africa (Pty) Ltd Workshop: Albany Grove Dance Film Project

uValo (2012) Screendance Africa Workshop video outcome for the Albany Grove Dance Film Project. 22 Oct-30 Nov 2012. Facilitators: Jeannette Ginslov & Dominique Jossie

Screenings:
Durban International Film Festival 2013

Producer: Valentine Nyaba
Director: Akona Matyila
Choreographer: Mxolisi Nkomonde
Sound: Simphiwe Nyathikazi
Editor/Final Sound - Kenneth Gwele
Performer: Mpilo Khumalo

*uValo meaning broken in Zulu

Albany Grove is a site-specific dance film documentary project produced by Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre in Collaboration with Durban University of Technology. Workshop facilitated by Screendance Africa Directors: Jeannette Ginslov & Dominique Jossie.

Albany Grove is a busy street in Central Durban. Home to Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre, where you will find the playhouse theatre, a hotel, a hairdresser, a church, a pub, a dance studio, a restaurant and a gentleman's massage parlor. This little street receives a daily flux of residences, workers and visitors from various cultures and classes in the city of Durban.

The aim of the project is to give the audience a glimpse of the lives of the people from Albany Grove through the medium of dance on film.
5 choreographers and 5 film directors will join forces to tell these stories in the form of 5 short dance films of 5 to 8 minutes each.

A project like Albany grove encourages young choreographers and filmmakers to develop and explore real life stories in their communities through dance on film. The collaboration between filmmaker and choreographer provides and exchange of skills amongst young artists in the creation of new cutting edge work. The idea is to create films with high production value whilst using basic production resources.