Russell Maliphant Company Veľká Bitánia/Great Britain

30.máj, 20:00 Divadlo Aréna/The Arena Theatre

Russell Maliphant Company was founded in 1996 and has sought to explore a diverse range of techniques including classical ballet, contact improvisation, yoga, capoeira and tai chi. 2004 marks the tenth anniversary of collaboration with lighting designer Michael Hulls. The company has toured extensively both nationally and internationally and recently were the first western dance company to visit Uzbekistan. In 2002 Russell Maliphant Company were awarded a TimeOut Live Award for ‘Outstanding Collaboration’, for the work Sheer, and the Peoples Choice award, from the Festival De La Nouvelle Danse, in Montreal.
Russell Maliphant trained the Royal Ballet School and graduated into Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet before leaving to pursue a career in independent dance, working with companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre, Michael Clark & Company, Laurie Booth Company and Rosemary Butcher. He has studied anatomy, physiology, bio-mechanics, and the Rolfing Method of Structural Integration. In April 2000 he received an Arts Council Fellowship.
He has created over 20 pieces to date, collaborating closely with lighting designer Michael Hulls and has set works on George Piper Dances, Lyon Opera Ballet, Ricochet Dance Company, The Batsheva Ensemble and Ballet de Lorraine. Russell Maliphant recently created Broken Fall with Sylvie Guillem and George Piper Dances with music by Barry Adamson. Broken Fall premiered at the Royal Opera House in December 2003 and won an Olivier award for best New Dance Production. Russell was awarded a South Bank Show award for Dance in 2003

Kritické množstvo (1998) / Critical Mass

Chreografia/Choreography: Russell Maliphant
Hudba/Music: Richard English with additional extracts by Andy Cowton
Svetelný dizajn/Lighting Design: Michael Hulls
Účinkujúci/Performers: Michael Pomero, Miquel de Jong

A male duet that was made into a Channel 4 film in 1999. A concentrated duel of ducking and diving moves became a study of competing wills. The men wear each other's bodies like scarves, effortlessly exchanging weight as they undergo their journey.
Critical Mass was commissioned by Thamesdown National Dance Agency with the help of British Ballet Organisation, London and Die Werkstatt, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Dvakrát tri / Two Times Three (2003)

Chreografia/Choreography: Russell Maliphant
Hudba/Music: Andy Cowton
Svetelný dizajn/Lighting Design: Michael Hulls
Účinkujúci/Performers: Anna Williams, Flora Bourderon, Marie Goudot

Two Times Three is an expanded version of his acclaimed and energetic solo Two – in which one female dancer is trapped in a box of light typifying his fascination with the relationship between movement, lighting and music. This powerful piece now features thee female dancers, Anna Williams, Flora Bourderon and Marie Goudot, whose movements are an abstraction of the original in different perspectives. The specially commissioned sound score by Andy Cowton will also be re-worked and extended.

Voľba / Choice (2003)

Chreografia/Choreography: Russell Maliphant
Hudba/Music: mukul (ambientTV.NET)
Svetelný dizajn/Lighting Design: Michael Hulls
Účinkujúci/Performers: Anna Williams, Flora Bourderon, Marie Goudot, Miquel de Jong, Michael Pomero

In Choice, Maliphant works for the first time with an expanded ensemble of five dancers taking his exploration of fluidity, dynamics, tensions and counter tensions into new territory. With such diverse influences as yoga, t'ai chi, capoeira and structural integration the movement vocabulary explores notions of weight, gravity and tensile force. Working with his long-term collaborator, lighting designer Michael Hulls, the relationship of light and movement is developed further defining the sculpture of space and the body. The whole is enveloped within a sound scape itself influenced by Asian rhythms and written by the composer mukul (ambientTV.net).

Choice is commissioned by Festival de Danse de Cannes, Dance Umbrella and Laban