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Radio 4, 11amWith the US presidential
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsImagine... Kate Prince:
Every Move She Makes
BBC One
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Forgotten Frontline
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he choreographer Kate
Prince was discussing her
latest street dance show,
Message in a Bottle, which
uses the music of Sting to tell
the story of the refugee crisis, when
her voice changed slightly. “It’s a bit
about Brexit as well, isn’t it?” she
whispered, almost conspiratorially.
“Because it’s saying we are open, we
still want people to make their homehere.” There was a lot of talk in this
latest Imagine profile about how
“pioneering”, “ground-breaking” and
“brave” Prince’s work was. But there
isn’t an arts professional in the land
who would pooh-pooh her sentiments
about Brexit, no decent person who
wouldn’t sympathise with the plight of
displaced families. So while there’s no
doubting her talent, energy and
passion, the one thing I didn’t totally
buy was the idea of her as a radical
outsider pushing against barriers.
Her work has featured in the 2008
Olympics handover ceremony and
Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday
concert. And for added liberal arts
establishment props she had Alan
Yentob in her kitchen. She is the
consensus. If she had been working on
a pro-Brexit or (God help us) anti-
refugee dance piece (if you can
imagine such a thing) that would have
been something to talk about sotto
voce. Although I rather doubt she’d
have got Arts Council funding for that.
Where this film worked best was in
those brief insights into Prince’s home
life, staying up all night working out
dance moves in the mirror or feeding
her young daughter croissants and jam
with her husband, Leo. Living with
such a driven person did not appear
easy. When she is immersed in a show
she is “not present for those eight
weeks, not physically or emotionally,
but that’s all right”, Leo said. We alsolearnt that he’s been known to
describe her work as “just a lot of
people jumping around”. I liked the
way Prince chuckled about that.
What isn’t usually a laughing matter
is having a Panorama crew filming in
your care home. But this time two
institutions welcomed the reporter
Alison Holt to show the grim human
reality behind the shocking Covid-
related excess death statistics in
Panorama: the Forgotten Frontline.
Care homes are sometimes known
as God’s waiting rooms, but tell that to
84-year-old Joan Day, whom we saw
dancing away in happier times. We
then saw her struggling to breathe and
her whimpers of pain before she died
without her family present.
The camerawork was respectful,
mostly telling the story through the
quiet fury and despair of the relatives
and managers, and the helplessness
of dementia patients such as Ellen,
totally unable to understand what was
happening. The tears of Herbert
Mumbamarwo, a nurse, said
everything. He described looking after
Bryan McHugh, 85, in his final hours
with scant medical support and
limited pain relief available.
“Bryan, over the last ten to twelve
months, has never spoken a complete
sentence, but that night he managed
to say, ‘I can’t breathe, I’m drowning,’
words that I didn’t know he could
Kate Prince, the choreographer, and Alan Yentob in Imagine... speak,” Mumbamarwo said.Just a lot of people jumping around? Not quite
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