Choreographer and Rambert alumni Dane Hurst will bring a newly-commissioned contemporary dance piece to Dulwich Picture Gallery this September.
The work will bring to life Winifred Knights’s The Deluge, currently on display as part of the exhibition Winifred Knights: 1899 - 1947.
Following the success of last year’s Prud’hon: The Moving Body, Dane Hurst & Company's Exodus (6 to 11 September) is inspired by the narrative and characters within Knights’s contemporary depiction of the biblical flood.
Audiences will be invited to tailor their own theatrical experience through a series of vignettes during the first half, then, in the second, the dancers will come together in a climactic performance down the Gallery’s central space. Materials will be provided on entry for guests to capture memories of the evening through life drawing if they wish.
The vignettes have been created by Hurst to a selection of compositions from the album Floodplain by the Kronos Quartet, which mirrors the desperation of the characters depicted in The Deluge.
Set designer for the event is Natalie Favaloro and costume designer is Nicolai Hart Hansen.