This screendance explores the individual's quest for answers to questions about love and longing. The story centres on a lonesome protagonist on the road to probe the Great Beyond on the great matter of loss and love. Weight in Waiting is a composite of body and landscape that utilises the Valley of Desolation and Stonefolk at Ongelukspoort outside Nieu-Bethesda as wilderness for the (in)sensibility of love. Movement and film converge choreographically to reveal a life upended from the weight of what to do when laden with love that has nowhere to go.
Production Credits
Jacques Batista - Director, Editor, Camera
Werner Marx - Choreographer, Performer
About the Artists
Jacques Batista is an educator, theatre and filmmaker whose work explores non-verbal storytelling through the moving body. His creative practice is informed by Rudolf Laban's theories of movement and spatiality, and physical theatre. His previous screen projects include "And Not A Word Was Spoken" (2022), "As If The Rain Watched Over Her" (2021), and "As the Mountain Stood Still" (2024), the latter two each receiving an Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival in Makhanda in 2021 and 2024, respectively.
Werner Marx is a part-time lecturer in Drama at Rhodes University where he was a member of First Physical Theatre Company. With extensive training in various somatic practices ranging from physical theatre to Butoh workshops with Kanazawa Butoh Troupe in Tokyo, Japan, Marx has been actively engaged in movement and dance in South Africa and abroad. Recently, he completed the introductory courses in Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals at the Drama Department, University of Pretoria.
- Programme type: vFringe
- Genre: Film
- Duration: 15 minutes
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Ages:
ALL AGES
