0:00:02 > 0:00:05Tonight, you join me at London's National Gallery on the north side
0:00:05 > 0:00:07of Trafalgar Square for a very special performance.
0:00:07 > 0:00:11It's part of a strand of programmes called Performance Live,
0:00:11 > 0:00:13bringing some of today's most exciting artists
0:00:13 > 0:00:16to the small screen.
0:00:16 > 0:00:17Photographer Robin Friend
0:00:17 > 0:00:20and world-renowned choreographer Wayne McGregor
0:00:20 > 0:00:23have brought together guest choreographers, composers, dancers,
0:00:23 > 0:00:28spoken word and music artists to create a unique and sensuous journey
0:00:28 > 0:00:30through the gallery rooms,
0:00:30 > 0:00:33as well as a mysterious underground cavern.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37As sirens sounded in 1939,
0:00:37 > 0:00:41it was from here that the nation's art was evacuated
0:00:41 > 0:00:44to a slate mine in Wales.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48For five years, the near empty gallery would become a venue
0:00:48 > 0:00:53for lunchtime concerts, before peace, and the collection, returned.
0:00:53 > 0:00:58It's this tale of exodus and redemption that inspired
0:00:58 > 0:01:02tonight's story, in which an evacuee painting takes on human form
0:01:02 > 0:01:04as it struggles to return home.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07The film asks the question
0:01:07 > 0:01:11what must be done to protect humanity's cultural heritage
0:01:11 > 0:01:13from violence in the world?
0:01:30 > 0:01:31Here...
0:01:32 > 0:01:36..another ballad for the borrow bodied
0:01:36 > 0:01:37The displaced
0:01:37 > 0:01:40But not the likely story
0:01:40 > 0:01:441940, we were carried in coyote kisses, canvas skin
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Blurred into vignettes
0:01:46 > 0:01:50Under the burning of wings, we were the persons of interest
0:01:50 > 0:01:53Proudly hung masterpieces
0:01:53 > 0:01:57Now, young evacuees, blue-lipped, acrylic
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Shivering in the boot
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Huddled in truck back
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Promised a new home with the long walk of the Navajo, but
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Well wished
0:02:07 > 0:02:09Smuggled like abalone shell fish
0:02:09 > 0:02:12To a pre-gutted galleria in a Welsh rib
0:02:14 > 0:02:16We felt like latchkey kids
0:02:17 > 0:02:21Did you read those letters home to Ludwig on the Luftwaffe wing?
0:02:21 > 0:02:26We wrote you love in linseed oil, under the blitzkrieg
0:02:26 > 0:02:29Look at the things we'd spoiled for war
0:02:29 > 0:02:34Who made a killing off the human race by killing off the human race?
0:02:34 > 0:02:36A shilling each for Schumann played
0:02:37 > 0:02:41Enter, winged bull in the elephant case
0:02:41 > 0:02:49MUSIC RAMPS UP IN INTENSITY
0:12:21 > 0:12:25HE BREATHES DEEPLY
0:12:35 > 0:12:38MUSIC: Earth - The Elements by Tunde Jegede
0:12:38 > 0:12:41WATER DRIPS
0:16:01 > 0:16:03RADIO STATIC
0:19:59 > 0:20:06MUSIC: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Major by Ludwig von Beethoven
0:23:35 > 0:23:40MUSIC TURNS ORCHESTRAL ELECTRONIC
0:23:50 > 0:23:54RADIO STATIC INTERWEAVES WITH MUSIC
0:25:04 > 0:25:10SONATA SLOWLY BUILDS