The Sprung Floor

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
0:04.0	The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, go to BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts.
0:17.0	Dance moves people. I'm Dane Hurst and this is the BBC World Service,
0:21.0	the sprung floor.
0:23.0	Dance is my escape from everything.
0:26.0	It inspires me to keep fighting.
0:28.0	I cry but I can still move on.
0:31.0	My emotions show I dance because it keeps me the fire in my life.
0:36.7	I'm always cool and calm and creative so you just gotta know you gotta move and dance with me.
0:41.6	Like you're in your own world which you control everything.
0:46.0	You call the shots.
0:47.0	If I want to move like this, I move like this and nobody's going to judge me.
0:51.0	You wouldn't believe what it's done to me.
0:53.0	I know what it is, I knew what it was,
0:54.5	know what it's going to be,
0:55.8	so please stop putting their blame on me.
0:58.8	Yeah.
0:59.8	Started recording and killing the track. Whoa. I'm a dancer, I believe in dance. I grew up in South Africa and now I'm bringing my dance back home to Port Elizabeth, also known as PE. This is my house just coming up here where I grew up. And you can see those 8-10 red steps with the yellow window panes. They're still yellow.
1:30.6	We were sent to live here with the Group Areas Act.
1:35.7	By luck you might get a good house assigned to you.
1:39.6	I am classified as a coloured person, and no way in the world will I be classified as colored
1:45.0	apart from in South Africa.
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