WHERE THE BODY SPEAKS
This project was born from our encounter with Sbonakaliso Ndaba (“Sbo”’), artistic director and founder of SboNdaba Dance, a non-profit working with young people from Cape Town’s townships, using dance as a tool for growth, training, and access to new possibilities. Cape Town can look like paradise, light, ocean, postcard beauty, but in the townships life is shaped by urgency, limited resources, few opportunities, an uncertain future. There’s also a quieter tracture between people and the sea. For many, the ocean isn’t a backdrop, it’s survival. When extraction-driven interests reshape the waters, fish disappear, and communities are left without alternatives.
In this landscape, dance stops being “art” from a distance.
It becomes a necessary language, education, resistance, a way to remain human and claim rights. Where The Body Speaks makes space for a movement that already exists.
The film and photographs follow the dancers inside and outside the church, tracing a parallel between bodies and territory, beauty and wounds, what we see, and what stays hidden.
Full video on Vimeo and Website
Written and Directed by
@yuridelamaison
Director of Photography
@gian0liva
Line Producer
@peterseas
Creative producer and Photographer
@claudia.frizzera
Local Producer
@carlmeer
Sound Engineer
@willemdafilm
Edit
@davidevitola
Edited and finalized at
@reframe_studio
Music and Sound
@matteo_parolini_sound
Colorist
@herebobo
SboNdaba Dance Company
@sbondabadance
Artistic Director Sbonakaliso Ndaba
@sbonakalisondaba Dancers Sbonakaliso Ndaba, Sinazo Meli, Litha Makanda, Sonwabile Mhlonyane, Lathitha Nomgca, Asemahle
Dayimani, Lusindiso Dibela, Sinalo Vakala, Clayton Jannike, Wanie Johannes, Vuyolwethu Mduli, Akhona Mpoza
Film poster
@auroracatera
Film Lab
@andecfilm
Shot on
@kodak_shootfilm 
