Unmute is based on Andile Vellem`s experience as a dancer who is deaf. He has been dancing professionally for more than 13 years and was part of the Remix Dance Company for 6 of those years.
They Died Singing is a musical production based on Vuyisile Mini, who was a unionist, umkhontoWesizwe activist, singer, dancer and poet.
Unmute:
Unmute is a way of Andile finding his voice as a choreographer, using sign language as the source of the movement vocab. He has brought together performers with different dance backgrounds to find and explore what they would like to unmute; feelings, perceptions, social norms, expectations, and deconstructing what society perceives as dance.
They Died Singing:
This production is a series of events focusing on Mini`s contribution to the emancipation of working class society in South Africa, highlighting his journey in the union movement and the detentions he suffered from during the South African apartheid regime to his last day of execution on the 6th November 1964, with his two comrades Zinakile Mkhaba and Wilson Khayinga.
