THE RODIN PROJECT
After the triumph of his Olivier Award-nominated and Critics’ Circle National Dance Award-winning Afterlight, this production was inspired by the works of the great French sculptor, Auguste Rodin.
Maliphant collaborated with a group of extraordinary performers, using a movement vocabulary influenced by the dance forms of popping, breaking and contemporary dance, integrated through Maliphant’s language of flow, form and dynamics.
The Rodin Project was performed to a newly commissioned score by Russian composer Alexander Zekke and made in collaboration with lighting designer Michael Hulls, set designers Es Devlin and Bronia Housman and costume designer Stevie Stewart.
A Sadler’s Wells/Russell Maliphant Production, co-produced by Théâtre National de Chaillot, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, and The Joyce Theater New York
PRESS
"Michael Hulls’ cleverly apportioned lighting"
– The Times
"It is ravishing, and made even more so by the dreamy colour washes of Michael Hulls’ lighting"
– The Guardian
"Lit by Michael Hulls with the artistic eye of a Chardin"
– The Telegraph
"Michael Hulls, the Caravaggio of stage lighting, defines and transforms the space"
– The Sunday Telegraph
"Breathtaking lighting"
– The Arts Desk
CREATIVE TEAM
CHOREOGRAPHY
Russell Maliphant
LIGHTING DESIGN
Michael Hulls
SET DESIGN
Es Devlin & Bronia Housman
PERFORMED BY
Tommy Franzen, Thomasin Gülgeç, Dickson Mbi, Ella Mesma, Carys Staton, Jenny White
COSTUME DESIGN
Stevie Stewart
PHOTOGRAPHS
Laurent Phillipe, Charlotte MacMillan