LANDSCAPES
Landscapes is an evening featuring three extraordinary solo works from Russell Maliphant Dance Company, sculpting the flow of movement with light and sound - each piece a uniquely crafted world.
AfterLight part 1, performed by the exceptional Daniel Proietto, draws inspiration from Vaslav Nijinsky’s visionary spirit. Circles, spirals and fleeting sketches come alive through Proietto’s luminous performance, accompanied by Erik Satie’s meditative Gnosiennes 1-4. Praised as a “miniature masterpiece”(The Telegraph), it is a meditation on time, memory and transformation.
The iconic solo Two, performed by special guest artist Alina Cojocaru, transforms precision and power into something elemental. Long hailed as “transfixing” and “utterly original”, Two is a charged meeting of rhythm, light and energy - a moment that lingers long after it ends.
Finally, Maliphant himself performs In a Landscape, a new creation of shifting light and sound made in collaboration with Panagiotis Tomaras (lighting design), Dana Fouras (music) and Stevie Stewart (costume/cloth). Shadows, fabric and figure become sculptural forms, evoking a journey both intimate and expansive.
LANDSCAPES is co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells, London and supported by Cockayne & The London Community Foundation.
DOWNLOAD LANDSCAPES PROGRAMME (The programme is flexible to be presented by all 3 solos or by 1 or 2 of them)
“AfterLight” photo by Johan Persson; Dancer - Daniel Proietto
★★★★
“Watching Daniel Proietto dance Afterlight must be one of the best ways you could spend 15 minutes. This beautifully arresting piece of dance is the antidote to stimulation overload: one single smooth thread of movement finely spun across the spare piano chords of Erik Satie’s Gnossiennes. As Proietto circles into deep backbends bathed in a pool of light, it’s like a 21st-century Dying Swan.”
-The Guardian, Lyndsey Winship
“Two” photo by Elliot Franks;
Dancer - Alina Cojocaru
★★★★
“Two is Maliphant’s great party trick and here the pleasure is in seeing Cojocaru master its stealth and beauty. Essentially a ballet for the upper body, it contains her within a single square of light (more clever effects from Hulls) and it’s amazing how much pulsating physical expression she can deliver in such a small space. Propelled by Andy Cowton’s rhythmic score, Two gradually builds momentum until it leaves you begging for more.”
-Times, Debra Craine
“In a Landscape” photo by Deborah Jaffe; dancer - Russell Maliphant
★★★★
“Lit by Panagiotis Tomaras with a percussive electronic score by Dana Fouras, the 30-minute piece makes beguiling use of gauze curtains and clever shadowplay. The veteran dancemaker, dressed in a dark boiler suit, is just visible through the draperies but cunningly positioned sidelights add two dancing partners who form a confiding pas de trois.”
-The Financial Times, Louise Levene