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VETERAN artiste and choreographer, Alexander a�?Mabhanzia�? Mhlanga alongside Marc Anthony Greenland and Kudzai Chikomo are representing the country in Venice, Italy after their video art piece Intokozo: Joy was selected to be showcased at the ITS LIQUID International Art Show.
The annual show which started on 9 February ending on 10 March is a show where different artistes from different countries around the world tell a story without a dialogue only using body language.
The two and a half minutes long Intokozo: Joy video was shot at Egodini Terminus with Marc Anthony as the cinematographer, Kudzai as the director while Alexander portrayed a character of Ntokozo, a mentally disturbed vagrant.
Asked on how the ideology of creating such a metaphoric piece which seems to be unique as it is the first of its kind to be produced by artistes from Bulawayo, Alexander revealed that they just wanted to be different and prove that Bulawayo was creative when it came to arts.
a�?When we choreographed the Intokozo small body language play, we wanted to be unique and show the world that Bulawayo has got talent. The name of the art piece and story line is about a mentally disturbed vagrant who always has a joyful life even though people might be confused whenever he does his own things (madness).
a�?From the way a person walks you can sense the attitude and mood of that person and that on its own, is a language that is why we used a storyline based on a vagrant and chose the Egodini setting because we wanted to give our pieceA� life as it was created in front of different people,a�? said Alexander.
As people on different sites like Facebook are keen in viewing the short Ntokozo video clip, Alexander said as soon as they portray their piece live on stage in Venice they would post it on different video sites as the one shot at Egodini was done for the sake of nomination at the prestigious International Art Show.
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