FIGURES IN A FLOATING LANDSCAPE
Turner in the South
Figures in a Floating Landscape is an outdoor/indoor immersive performance, fusing music and dance, created with composer Peter Coyte. It takes the audience on a journey inspired by the coastal walks of and the sketches by the much loved and radical landscape painter JMW Turner; it contextualises them in light of environmental change and damage.
“LOVED HOW OPEN IT WAS TO MY OWN INTERPRETATION. THERE WAS CHAOS AND ANXIETY REFLECTING THE TIMES”
- Loraine Burgon, Artist and Audience,
The Gulbenkian Theatre 2019
Using contemporary dance and music, this is a family performance without set, that brings dance to new audiences in a vibrant and accessible way. Beautifully costumed by Kate Collins, dancers and musicians are brought on stage together in a series of sections that evoke different places at different times of the day and year, places that JMW Turner may himself have visited. Available to book.
“I was blown away by the dancing. Fantastic choreography and wow, could those dancers dance!” Andrew Hastings, Photographer, Gulbenkian Theatre 2019
Zara Sands, Livia Massarelli, Becky Horne and Luca Braccia
Location: The Gulbenkian Theatre, Kent.
Link to British Theatre Guide Review by Peter Lathan and Dance Art Journal Interview by Katie Hagan
Images Luke Waddington, Andrew Hastings.