Wayne McGregor and Ben Cullen Williams team up with Edward Gardner for a reinvention of Szymanowski's ballet Harnasie as part of The Music in You festival.
Creativity inspires creativity: a sound, a melody, or a whole composition can spark endless different imaginative responses. Tania León opens the concert with her first new commission as the LPO’s Composer-in-Residence. Ravel waltzes on the edge. Wayne McGregor and Ben Cullen Williams join forces with Edward Gardner for A Body for Harnasie.
In a dazzling, cross-artform reinvention of Szymanowski’s ballet Harnasie, Wayne McGregor uses digitally enhanced choreographic storytelling to open a portal to a new expressive world, with innovative technological interventions by Ben Cullen Williams. The story of Harnasie is reimagined through the use of human and digital intelligence, taking the form of a kinetic, sculptural video installation that will be suspended above the orchestra on the stage. It explores the universal narratives of Harnasie within our rapidly changing contemporary world.
