HATCHED 2015
3 screen film, 9’12’’ looped, 2015
Installation LOOP Barcelona 2016
“LOOP Barcelona 2016 – Our Favourite Artworks: In Hatched 2015 Robyn Denny and Mamela Nyamza combine their video and choreography skills. Visually stunning and cinematic, Hatched 2015 is a testament to the power of collaboration. Denny and Nyamza effortlessly fuse video and dance art with an enchanting original score courtesy of Jeremy De Tolly to birth an emotionally powerful and moving performance.”
Kirtey Verma – 3 June 2016, ultravie.co.uk
The 3-screen film ‘Hatched 2015’ is born of the alchemy of cross-disciplinary collaboration. This work as a whole was co-directed by Robyn Denny and Mamela Nyamza from a dedicated studio performance of Nyamza’s 2008 dance piece ‘Hatched’. Denny’s video-artistry has alchemised with Nyamza’s originally choreographed dance-artistry. Ebrahim Hajee’s stunningly intimate cinematography exaggerates the selected aspects, and thus the dance is transfigured for film. Jeremy de Tolly’s hauntingly original score, which incorporates ululating, and drumming by the consummate Kesivan Naidoo, carries the film sonically.
