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The Documentary: The Sprung Floor

Dancer Dane Hurst

18/05/2016 GMT

The Sprung Floor

BBC World Service - The Documentary, The Sprung Floor

Dancer Dane Hurst on his dream to teach modern dance to under-privileged kids in SA

Dancer Dane Hurst on his dream to teach modern dance to under-privileged kids in South Africa.

The dancer, Dane Hurst, has bought a former Rambert Company dance floor (deep, protective, roll out vinyl) to take back to his home in South Africa, for under-privileged kids to dance on.
 
Modern Dance is like a magic carpet. It transported young Dane out of the volatility, violence and poverty of his childhood in segregated Port Elizabeth, to life as a Rambert student and dancer in London. He believes it can transport other young people. 
 
Buying the floor was the start of a larger dream that Dane calls the Moving Assembly Project (MAP). Dane plans in the next few years to construct a prototype dance space out of shipping containers in Port Elizabeth, SA and to install the floor in it - to give dance training to thousands of underprivileged children, to transport them for a moment out of their frustrations and grief.

(Photo: Dane Hurst demonstrates a dance movement to children. Credit: Karl Schoemaker)

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