The week before the start of the Rio Olympics, on Thursday 28 July 2016, the Horniman Museum and gardens will be host to a special late night showcase of Brazilian art curated by choreographer Jean Abreu, who will present a promenade reinvention of his dance production A Thread.
The event—featuring music and theatre performance, film and a bespoke app to guide audiences through indoor and outdoor performances—is part of Brazil in Focus, the museum’s celebration of Brazilian culture this summer. Throughout the evening, audiences will be able to dip in and out of twelve different short performances as they wander through the galleries.
Labirinto sees Jean Abreu’s multi-faceted show A Thread fractured across the labyrinth of the Horniman's galleries. The evening also features Brazilian artist Fernanda Prata, who presents a dance duet based on the Tropicalia arts movement in Brazil, and film excerpts from director Allan Ribeiro’s This Love That Consumes.
Abreu said, “Labirinto is an experiential promenade performance which has evolved in parallel and as an extension of my latest production A Thread. I’ve taken from it the idea of an unpredictable journey and transferred it to this idea of an immersive labyrinth, with the choreographic material emerging in direct response to the various galleries of the Horniman Museum.
“When I first came to the Horniman, I was overwhelmed with information and all the different artefacts you encounter as you walk through the museum. In Labirinto, I am recreating this experience enhancing it to present the museum in a new light. I want the visitors become treasure hunter, puzzle solvers as they decipher their own path through the Labyrinth of performances we’ve created.”