Russell Maliphant Still Current Marketing and press pack
Adam Kirkham and Carys Staton. Photo by Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones
For further information contact:
Lucy White, Marketing Rob James, Press Sadler’s Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London Sadler’s Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4TN EC1R 4TN T: 00 44 (0)20 7863 8104 T: 00 44 (0)20 7863 8114 E: [email protected] [email protected]
Contents 1. Still Current billing 7. Press quotes 2. Target audience 8. Sample direct mail 3. Selling points 9. Images 4. Box office briefing notes 10. Logos 5. Brochure copy & short copy 11. Video 6. Sample press release 12. Biographies
Important note All copy must be used as provided. No changes are permitted without the agreement of Sadler’s Wells. All information contained in this document, along with high resolution images, can be downloaded from http://www.sadlerswells.com/tour-marketing/still-current All publicity material, including venue brochures, nightly audience programmes and press releases must be proofed by Sadler’s Wells before going to print. Please contact Louise Shand- Brown, Producer, Sadler’s Wells, Tel: +44 (0)20 7863 8087 / louise.shand- [email protected] or Lucy White, Marketing Manager, Sadler’s Wells, Tel: +44 (0)20 7863 8104 [email protected]
1. Crediting (Advance publicity & press release) The following short billing must appear on all advance publicity including posters, venue/festival brochures, ads (where space allows) and press releases:
Short billing
Russell Maliphant Still Current
A Sadler’s Wells / Russell Maliphant Production Co-produced by Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg Co-commissioned by DanceEast Supported by artsdepot
Full Credits To be used when space allows. It must appear in all programmes.
Russell Maliphant Still Current
A Sadler’s Wells / Russell Maliphant Production Co-produced by Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg Co-commissioned by Dance East Supported by artsdepot
Direction and Choreography: Russell Maliphant Lighting and Projection Design*: Michael Hulls (* for Still Current and Still) Animation: Jan Urbanowski Composers: Armand Amar, Andy Cowton & Mukul Costume Design: Stevie Stewart Video Programmer: Andy Downie Collaborative Assistant: Dana Fouras Dancers: Thomasin Gülgeç, Adam Kirkham (selected venues) Carys Staton, Russell Maliphant (selected venues), Dickson Mbi
2. Target audience
• Dancers and dance students. Russell is a leading choreographer in the UK whose work is very much admired by dancers and is very accessible to dancers looking to experience high quality contemporary dance. • Regular dance attendees. This programme incorporates many styles and influences including martial arts, ballet, popping and contemporary so will appeal to a broad range of dance attendees. • Visual arts attendees. The lighting and animated projection used in the performance will be of great interested to people who attend galleries or visual arts. • People interested in contemporary and electronic music. Especially people who attend live performances and gigs. • Students studying theatre/dance lighting. Particularly further and higher education students.
3. Selling Points
Russell Maliphant • Russell Maliphant is a multi award-winning choreographer with international recognition. • His works, including Afterlight, Eonnagata and PUSH, have toured around the world. • He trained at The Royal Ballet School and graduated into Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet before leaving to pursue an independent career. • His collaborations with Michael Hulls have bought him much critical acclaim as the pair use light and Maliphant’s trademark style of beautifully fluid movement to sculpt dancers’ bodies. “Dancing bodies rarely look more beautiful than in the work of Russell Maliphant” The Guardian • Russell has worked extensively with the BalletBoyz and choreographed Fallen for The Talent, the new generation of male dancers who make up the company. • Russell Maliphant is a Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist. • Russell will be working with English National Ballet on a new programme of work commissioned to commemorate the centenary of the First World War. Guardian article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2013/jun/10/akram-khan-russell- maliphant-enb
Michael Hulls • Michael Hulls is a multi award-winning lighting designer who was the first non dancer/choreographer to become a Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist. • In 2012 he was nominated for a TMA award for outstanding achievement in dance. • In 2010 he was entered into the Oxford Dictionary of Dance
Afterlight (Part One) • Afterlight (Part One) was first performed as part of In the Spirit of Diaghilev at Sadler’s Wells, commissioned to celebrate the anniversary of the Ballets Russes. • It was inspired by Nijinsky’s drawings and contains beautiful animated projections. • It won a Critic’s Circle National Dance award for best modern choreography in 2010, as well as an Olivier award nomination.
Two • First created on Dana Fouras it later gained further international recognition by world famous dancer Sylvie Guillem who made it her own as part of PUSH. Now danced by Carys Staton, it is as close to the original as it has ever been.
About the dancers • Dickson Mbi is famed for his exceptional popping style. He has won multiple awards including the UK B-boy championships in 2008, 2009 and 2012. • Dickson performed in Russell Maliphant’s The Rodin Project and has also appeared in a TV ad for Lucozade which was choreographed by Russell. • Thomasin Gülgeç and Carys Staton also appeared in The Rodin Project. • Thomasin Gülgeç danced with Rambert from 2003 - 2011. • Adam Kirkham is a member of BalletBoyz and recently appeared in a Lexus ad alongside Carys Staton, choreographed by Russell Maliphant.
Jan Urbanowski • Jan Urbanowski is an animation artist who has worked with several big names in the world of music including Lady GaGa, George Michael, Pet Shop Boys and Kasabian.
Stevie Stewart • Stevie Stewart has created costumes for many international music tours including several for Kylie Minogue, Leona Lewis, Westlife and Britney Spears. • She was a designer for influential 80s fashion label BodyMap http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/6120/1/fashion-archive-bodymap
Armand Amar • French-Morrocan Armand Amar has scored many films and is touring his first oratorio this year.
Mukul • Mukul is a cutting edge composer working out of the artist-run ambientspace studio in London. • His previous projects have included an audio-visual performance based on the preparation of food, and a (playable) harp with razor wire strings. • He has worked extensively in dance including with Shobana Jeyasingh and BalletBoyz. This is his fourth collaboration with Russell Maliphant.
4. Box office briefing notes
About Still Current
• Still Current is a mixed bill which includes two famous pieces of dance by Russell Maliphant: Afterlight (Part One) and Two. • The evening will also feature three new works: two duets and a trio. • A video clip is available here:
About Russell Maliphant
• Russell Maliphant is an internationally acclaimed contemporary dance choreographer. • He trained with the Royal Ballet and was accepted in to the Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet (now Birmingham Royal Ballet) before leaving to pursue an independent career. • He is well known for his choreography for the ballet superstar Sylvie Guillem and the BalletBoyz.
Running Time Approx 1hr and 15 mins plus one 20 minute interval (subject to change)
Age Suitability Age guidance is 8+. We are not expecting there to be any adult content, violence or nudity.
Special Effects There are strobe lighting effects used in the production. Haze effects are not used in this production.
Running Order
Two Dancer: Carys Staton Traces Dancers: Thomasin Gulgec, Dickson Mbi, Russell Maliphant Still Dancers: Dickson Mbi, Carys Staton
Interval
Afterlight (Part One) Dancer: Thomasin Gülgeç Still Current Dancers: Russell Maliphant, Carys Staton
5. Brochure copy
Russell Maliphant Still Current
Still Current is an evening of work by the internationally acclaimed Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Russell Maliphant; it features newly created duets and trios danced by his remarkable company and by Maliphant himself.
Joining Maliphant on stage are Carys Staton, whose energetic elegance and dedication are showcased in the new creations, and Dickson Mbi, famed for his strength and incredible popping style. The evening also features Thomasin Gülgeç, whose fluid agility and grace are demonstrated in new works, and in the award-winning solo Afterlight (Part One), included as part of the programme. There is a diverse physical language across the pieces, integrating qualities and vocabulary from contemporary dance, ballet and martial arts.
The lighting and projection designs for the evening are by Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Michael Hulls. Musically, the evening includes an eclectic mix of sound with compositions from Eric Satie, long time collaborator Andy Cowton and a newly commissioned score by the sublime Armand Amar, well known for his film scores. Costume designs are by Stevie Stewart with animation created by Jan Urbanowski.
A Sadler’s Wells / Russell Maliphant Production Co-produced by Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg Co-commissioned by DanceEast Supported by artsdepot
Short copy 103 words
Still Current is an evening of work by internationally acclaimed choreographer Russell Maliphant.
Featuring newly created duets, trios and solos danced by a remarkable company including Dickson Mbi, famed for his incredible popping style, Thomasin Gülgeç and Carys Staton, all of whom recently stunned audiences in Maliphant’s The Rodin Project. The award winning solos Afterlight (Part One) and Two will also be included.
A diverse physical language links the pieces, integrating vocabulary from contemporary, ballet and martial arts. The evening includes outstanding lighting by long-term collaborator Michael Hulls, musical compositions from Eric Satie, Andy Cowton and new music by Armand Amar and Mukul.
6. Sample press release
A Sadler’s Wells/Russell Maliphant Company Production Russell Maliphant Company Still Current www.rmcompany.co.uk
“Constantly absorbing and beautiful” Daily Telegraph
Still Current is a dynamic evening from internationally acclaimed choreographer and Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Russell Maliphant, featuring three new works and two of Maliphant’s most iconic pieces. The evening offers audiences the chance to see Maliphant perform alongside his company of dancers; Thomasin Gülgeç, Dickson Mbi and Carys Staton.
The evening presents a diverse physical language that integrates qualities and vocabulary from ballet, contemporary dance and martial arts that celebrates the technical strength of Maliphant’s world class company.
The evening’s performance features three new works, Still Current, a duet created for Carys Staton and Russell Maliphant, drawing on Staton’s strength and versatility as a dancer. The evening also features Traces, a trio drawing on amongst other things, the style of the Brazilian martial art of capoeira that sees Maliphant perform alongside the award-winning dancer Thomasin Gülgeç and Dickson Mbi. Still Current also features Still, choreographed on Dickson Mbi who recently stunned audiences with his strength an exceptional popping style in The Rodin Project, the dance film Erebus and the Lucozade Revive commercial.
Along with these three new works Still Current features the critically acclaimed Afterlight (Part One), winner of the Critics Circle National Dance Award for Best Choreography. Performed by Thomasin Gülgeç, this solo showcases his fluid agility and grace. He is joined by Carys Staton whose energetic elegance and delicate strength are showcased in the new creations and in her performance of the modern-classic solo Two.
Still Current includes an eclectic mix of music with compositions from Éric Satie and long time collaborator Andy Cowton and a newly commissioned score by Armand Amar, well known for his film scores. Costume designs are by Stevie Stewart, formerly one half of the influential design label BodyMap, recently she has worked with Michael Clark and Rambert as well as designing costumes for Kylie Minogue and Britney Spears, and animation by Jan Urbanowski who created the opening credits for Danny Boyle’s 2013 film Trance. For Still Current Maliphant once again works in collaboration with his long-standing collaborator, lighting designer and Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Michael Hulls.
Russell Maliphant: Still Current is a Sadler’s Wells/Russell Maliphant production, co- commissioned by Dance East, supported by artsdepot.
For further information, biographies or to arrange interviews please contact Sadler’s Wells Press Officer Rob James on 020 7863 8114 or [email protected]
Notes to Editors
Still Current is a Russell Maliphant Company/Sadler’s Wells Production, co-produced by Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, co-commissioned by DanceEast and supported by artsdepot.
7. Press quotes of Russell Maliphant’s past shows
About Still Current
“Constantly absorbing and beautiful” Daily Telegraph
About Russell Maliphant
“Dancing bodies rarely look more beautiful than in the work of Russell Maliphant” The Guardian
“A genuinely innovative choreographer” Daily Telegraph
About Afterlight (Part One)
***** “A spellbinding piece from Russell Maliphant” Sunday Telegraph
**** “Afterlight is a work that consumes the eye and seduces the senses” The Times
**** “A miniature masterpiece” Daily Telegraph
**** “What Hulls is doing with Maliphant is nothing less than giving visual shape to the transforming power of the dancing body, and the dancing imagination” The Guardian
About The Rodin Project
***** “The dancers hang, slide, tumble and contort themselves, while the choreography shapes a language of delight from a vocabulary of torment” EVENING STANDARD
***** “Russell Maliphant is now Britain’s leading modern dance creator. Two years ago his AfterLight won awards right left and centre and I believe his Rodin Project will top even that (…). Maliphant’s The Rodin Project is a unique contribution to the art of dance.” DAILY EXPRESS
**** “Throughout the work, Maliphant is playing with contrasts: with those inherent in sculpture itself where soft flesh is captured in hard stone and metal, with the appositions between weight and weightlessness, the fluid and the fixed. Like The Thinker, he makes thought visible. It is that density that makes me admire The Rodin Project so much (…). It provides some of the most beautiful images and profound ideas I’ve experienced in dance this year.” DAILY TELEGRAPH
“An astounding duet for Tommy Franzén and Dickson Mbi is equally unmediated. Performed to a yearning cello on a vertical surface which is at once rock face and prison wall, the two men seem almost weightless as they defy the limitations of their situation. Gravity reclaims them, of course, as his historical subject reclaims Maliphant. But not before we, and they, have glimpsed unbounded space.” THE GUARDIAN
8. Sample direct mail Russell Maliphant Still Current xxx Dates to go here xxx
A new evening of work by internationally acclaimed choreographer Russell Maliphant and masterful lighting and projection designer Michael Hulls.
Still Current comprises five works: three new pieces, and two iconic pieces of Maliphant’s choreography. The evening features diverse range of movement styles, integrating qualities and vocabulary from ballet, martial arts and yoga, celebrating the unparalleled technical strength of Maliphant’s world class company.
The evening’s new work includes a duet created for Carys Staton, drawing on her strength and versatility as a dancer, a solo choreographed on dancer Dickson Mbi who recently stunned audiences in The Rodin Project, and a work for three male dancers, drawing on the styles of Brazilian martial art of capoeira.
“Dancing bodies rarely look more beautiful than in the work of Russell Maliphant” The Guardian
The programme also includes the acclaimed and Olivier Award-nominated solo Afterlight (Part One) performed by Thomasin Gülgeç, and the powerful solo Two. Created for former Royal Ballet dancer Dana Fouras in 1997, Two has received critical acclaim when danced Sylvie Guillem, touring the world as part of PUSH.
**** “Afterlight is a work that consumes the eye and seduces the senses” The Times
Musically, the evening includes an eclectic mix of sound with compositions from Eric Satie, long time collaborator Andy Cowton and a newly commissioned score by the sublime Armand Amar, well known for his film scores. Animation has been created by Jan Urbanowski, and costume designs are by Stevie Stewart, who has worked with Michael Clark and Rambert as well as designing costumes for Kylie Minogue and Britney Spears.
Book now for this dynamic programme of iconic, award-winning dance and daring new choreography from one of Britain’s best-loved choreographers.
A Sadler’s Wells / Russell Maliphant Production Co-produced by Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg Co-commissioned by DanceEast Supported by artsdepot
9. Images
Images can be downloaded from http://www.sadlerswells.com/tour-marketing/still- current/marketing.asp
10. Logos
Venues should include Sadler’s Wells’ logo on all print including flyers, posters, programmes. The logo can be downloaded from http://www.sadlerswells.com/tour- marketing/still-current/marketing.asp
Venues should also include the list of co-producers on brochures, posters, and programmes. Where space allows, the logos should be included.
For co-producers logos, please contact [email protected]
11. Video
A promo clip of Afterlight (Part One) can be downloaded from http://www.sadlerswells.com/tour-marketing/still-current/marketing.asp
12. Biographies
RUSSELL MALIPHANT Director / Choreographer
Russell Maliphant trained at The Royal Ballet School and graduated into Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet before leaving to pursue a career in independent dance. He danced with DV8, Michael Clark, Rosemary Butcher and Laurie Booth – with whom he was awarded a Time Out Live award for ‘raising improvisational dance to new heights’.Between 1991–1994 Maliphant studied anatomy, physiology and biomechanics, and qualified as a practitioner of the Rolf Method of Structural Integration (or Rolfing) in 1994. These studies inform both his teaching and choreographic work, along with a diverse range of body practices and techniques including classical ballet, contact improvisation, yoga, capoeira and tai chi. Since 1994 he has collaborated closely with lighting designer Michael Hulls, evolving a language where movement and light are intimately connected and the meeting point becomes a new language in itself. He formed Russell Maliphant Company in 1996 and has also worked with renowned companies and artists including Sylvie Guillem, Robert Lepage, Isaac Julian, Balletboyz and Lyon Opera Ballet. In 2002 he received the Time Out Live award for outstanding collaboration for his work Sheer and in 2003 received a South Bank Show dance award for the piece Choice. At the end of that year he created Broken Fall for Sylvie Guillem and Balletboyz which premiered at the Royal Opera House and received an Olivier award for best new dance production.
Broken Fall was restaged in 2004 as part of the programme Rise and Fall, containing three of Maliphant’s works, and received the Critics’ Circle National Dance award for best modern choreography. Rise and Fall toured for two years and in 2005 Sylvie Guillem invited Maliphant to create an evening of work for them both, culminating in the duet PUSH. This premiered at Sadler’s Wells and received a South Bank Show award and an Olivier award in 2006. PUSH has since toured throughout the world and continues to do so. Its creation was followed by two artistically diverse collaborations: Cast No Shadow with visual artist Isaac Julien, and Eonnagata which was created and performed with theatre director Robert Lepage and Sylvie Guillem.
In 2009 Maliphant created part one of Afterlight for In the Spirit of Diaghilev, Sadler’s Wells’ celebration of Les Ballets Russes. This received the Critics’ Circle National Dance award for best modern choreography in 2010 and was also nominated for an Olivier award. Parts two and three ofAfterlight followed and toured as a full evening together with part one. The Rodin Project opened at Thtre National de Chaillot in Paris at the end of January 2012 and was adapted for film, in a collaboration with the directors Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones, and re-titled 'Erebus'.
In 2011, Maliphant was awarded an honorary doctorate of arts from Plymouth University. Russell Maliphant became an Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells in 2005.
MICHAEL HULLS Lighting and Projection Designer
Michael trained in dance and theatre at Dartington College and was awarded a bursary by the Arts Council to attend dance lighting workshops with Jennifer Tipton in New York and Paris.
Over the last 20 years he has worked exclusively in dance, particularly with choreographer Russell Maliphant. Their collaborations have won international critical acclaim and many awards: Sheer won a Time Out Award for Outstanding Collaboration, Choice won a South Bank Show Dance Award, Push, with Sylvie Guillem, won four major awards including the Olivier for Best New Dance Production and Afterlight won two Critics Circle awards. Michael and Russell also collaborated on Broken Fall, commissioned by Ballet Boyz, which also featured Sylvie Guillem and won an Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. In 2007 Michael’s and Russell’s work was the subject of Ballet Boyz’s Channel 4 documentary Light and Dance and The Daily Telegraph hailed their collaboration as ‘possibly the most important creative partnership in modern British dance.’
Michael has also worked with Ballet Boyz on their productions of Russell’s Critical Mass, Torsion and most recently on the highly acclaimed Fallen. He also lit the Ballet Boyz’s productions of Christopher Wheeldon’s Mesmerics and Liam Scarlett’s Serpent.
Eonnagata, Michael’s collaboration with Sylvie Guillem, Robert Lepage and Russell Maliphant, for which Michael won the 2009 Knight of Illumination Award for Dance, opened at Sadler’s Wells and along with Afterlight led to Michael being nominated for the 2010 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance, and a second Knight of Illumination Award.
Michael has also worked over many years with Akram Khan on his pieces Fix, Rush, In-I his duet with Juliette Binoche, and most recently on his highly acclaimed full length solo DESH, winner of the 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, and In the Shadow of Man. He is also working on Akram’s forthcoming work duet with Flamenco virtuoso Israel Galvan.
He has also worked with Javier De Frutos on the pieces Cattle Call, Paseillo, Los Picadores, Blue Roses, Elysian Fields and the controversial Eternal Damnation, and with Jonathan Burrows on The Stop Quartet, and on Walking/Music, commissioned by William Forsythe for Ballett Frankfort.
In 2009 Michael was delighted to become an Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells Theatre and in 2010 his contribution to dance was recognised with his entry into the Oxford Dictionary of Dance. Michael was recently nominated for the 2012 Theatre Managers Association award for Acheivement in Dance for his ‘brilliant contribution to lighting for dance; in particular for DESH, Torsion and The Rodin Project.’
Michael is currently working with Russell on commissions for English National Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet and Ballet Munchen as well as a new programme of work for the Russell Maliphant Company and Akram’s forthcoming duet with Flamenco virtuoso Israel Galvan.
JAN URBANOWSKI Animation Direction
Jan began working with moving image and post production after developing techniques in special effects for film and television whilst working for companies such as Glassworks and CFC- Framestore.
He progressed into design and editing, employed as a motion graphics director for CC- Lab where he composed music, edited and animated content.
He was shortly picked up by Flynn productions as senior in house editor and from here began his independent directing career working closely with Onedotzero who explore and develop new generation filmmakers.
Projects covered areas including live visuals, promos, installations, commercials and emergent technologies.
Clients Jan has worked with include Lady Gaga, George Michael, Q Tip, Nitin Sawhney, Pet Shop Boys & Kasabian.
He currently works from his studio in Clerkenwell, London, as an image maker, video designer, director, filmmaker and animator working on music videos, film titles, visuals & commercials.
ARMAND AMAR Composer
Born in Jerusalem and of French-Morroccan origin, Armand learned to play Tablas, Zarb and Congas under various masters of traditional music. He first started composing for dance in 1976 and has worked with numerous choreographers including Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Carolyn Carlson and Francesca Lattuada, and he also lectured on composition at Patrice Chéreau’s Actors’ School and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur, focusing on the relationship between music and dance.
A highly accomplished composer for film, Armand has created scores for Eyewitness (2000), The Axe (2005) and Eden is East (2009), all by Costa-Gavras; The Concert (2009 and winner of the César for Best Soundtrack), Live and Become (2006) and The Source (2011), all by Radu Mihaileanu; Days of Glory (2006) and Outside the Law (2010), both by Rachid Bouchareb, Blame it on Fidel (2006) by Julie Gavras; The First Cry (2007) by Gilles de Maistre, The Maiden and the Wolves (2008) and You Will Be My Son (2011) by Gilles Legrand; Sagan (2008) by Diane Kurys, Like Five Fingers (2009) by Alexandre Arcady, HOME (2009) by Yann Arthus- Bertrand and Free Men (2010) by Ismaël Ferroukhi. In 2012 Armand Amar composed the original scores of two Brazilian films: My Sweet Orange Tree by Marcos Bernstein and Amazonia Eterna by Belisario Franca, as well as the recent films Planète Océans by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, What the Day Owes to the Night by Alexandre Arcady, and The Capital by Costa-Gavras. He is currently working on the music for Diane Kurys’ Pour une femme, and Nicolas Vanier’s Belle et Sébastien.
He co-founded the record label Long Distance in 1994, which now boasts more than 60 titles. His own work is released through Naive, Long Distance, Universal and Sony.
Armand also created for the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco, his first oratorio named Leylâ & Majnûn, which uses an international cast of over forty singers and musicians. It will tour internationally in 2013.
ANDY COWTON Composer
Andy has been composing music for film and television for over 20 years. His first film, with BBC’s Modern Times, was for Lucy Blakstad’s highly acclaimed film LIDO. Since then he has composed on a wide range of award winning projects spanning film, drama and contemporary dance for which he has received a Time Out Award.
As a composer in contemporary dance he has composed for numerous companies but most notably for Russell Maliphant whos works include PUSH (Olivier and South Bank Awards) a duet with Sylvie Guilllem and most recently Cut for Akash Odedra (currently touring).
Babeldom, a new feature film by Paul Bush (another long time collaborator) is screening in cinemas from March and Lay Bare, a short animation film has just received best experimental film award in Tindirindis and continues in competition throughout Europe.
His compositions for television have covered a wide range of styles from Penny Woolcock's Tina series to high end documentary series such as Simon Schamas American History series.
February sees the latest transmission of Wild Pictures highly acclaimed prison series HMP Aylesbury on ITV, whilst on BBC2, Century Films six part series on The Railway begins its epic journey!
MUKUL Composer
Mukul Patel is codirector of ambientspace, an artist-run studio in London that produces critical, intermedia work at the intersection of society and technology, often involving public participation. He plays predominantly with sound, language, and processes. Past projects include Av Dinners, an audio-visual performance of the preparation and consumption of a meal, and Orchestra of Anxiety, a (playable) harp with strings of razor wire. As sound artist, he has composed for experimental film (Manu Luksch, Shaina Anand & Ashok Sukumaran, Isaac Julien) and dance (Athina Vahla, Shobana Jeyasingh, Ballet Boyz/Akram Khan). His writing ranges from film scripts (FACELESS dir. Manu Luksch 2009, voice: Tilda Swinton) to nonfiction in the realms of art, mathematics, and technology – including books for children. His current influences include the music of North India, early electronic music, and Oulipo. His first degree was in Social & Political Sciences, and he is currently studying mathematics.
This is Mukul’s fourth collaboration with Russell Maliphant – he previously composed the music for Choice (2003), Twelvetwentyone (2004, for L’Opéra de la Ballet de Lyon) and Transmission (2006).
STEVIE STEWART Costume Designer
Formerly one half of the innovative and influential fashion design label, BodyMap, Stevie now works with top creative names in fashion, music, film and advertising as a costume, set and production designer and fashion stylist.
In the dance world, she began collaborating with Michael Clark in 1984, creating memorable costumes for many of his productions. She has also costumed Rambert Dance company and Jean Abreau. She has had previous collaborations with Russell Maliphant Company and worked with him on Afterlight. Other theatrical collaborations include: costume design for Jan-Willem van den Bosch’s Mother Courage and Her Children (Graeae Theatre Company) and costume design for The Importance of Being Earnest directed by David Fielding (Bristol Old Vic). Film credits include: production and costume designer for Jan Dunn's Ruby Blue; costume designer for Baillie Walsh’s Flashbacks of a Fool starring Daniel Craig; and costume and production designer for Jan Dunn’s The Calling.
Stevie has also designed costumes for several international music tours, including Kylie Minogue’s KYLIEX2008 ,Showgirl and Homecoming international tours, as well as The Circus starring Britney Spears Tour 2009.
Recently she has costumed Kylie Minogue's Aphrodite tour, Leona Lewis's tour and Westlife's tour. Stevie worked on William Baker's The Hurly Burly Show as costume and set designer.
THOMASIN GÜLGEÇ Dancer
Thomasin trained at Swindon Dance and the Rambert School before joining Rambert 2003-2011 where he danced in works by many renowned international choreographers. In 2010 he received The Critics' Circle Award for outstanding male dancer (modern) in Christopher Bruce's Hush. Thomasin began work as a freelance artist in 2011 with Film Director Joe Wright and Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui on the movie Anna Karenina and with Akram Khan in his piece for The London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony. Recently he has worked with Douglas Thorpe's Mad Dogs Dance Theatre and is a dancer with Company Chameleon.
In 2012 Thomasin joined the Russell Maliphant Company for The Rodin Project which toured internationally and also performed Afterlight in California and most recently Afterlight (Part One) in London.
ADAM KIRKHAM Dancer
Adam started his training at the Arts Educational School before gaining a full scholarship to train at the English National Ballet School. Whilst there he performed in the company’s production of Coppelia as well as being a member of the National Youth Ballet of Great Britain.
Upon graduation, he moved to Denmark where he worked exclusively with The Peter Schaufuss Ballet, creating many roles in original ballets and toured throughout Scandinavia, Europe and the UK.
He also appeared in BalletBoyz: The Next Generation for More4 and has performed with the BalletBoyz for three seasons. Adam has recently appeared in a television commercial for Lexus, which was choreographed by Russell Maliphant.
DICKSON MBI Dancer
Dickson started dancing in 2005, his main styles being popping and boogaloo. He has won several competitions in the UK and Europe, and participated in many commercial works. After meeting contemporary dance teacher Stuart Thomas in 2008, he sought further training and undertook a foundation and access course in dance at Lewisham College before going on to train at London Contemporary Dance School.
He was studying at the school when Russell Maliphant saw Dickson dancing at Sadler’s Wells in Breakin’ Convention 2011 and asked Dickson to join him for The Rodin Project. Dickson has also appeared in television commercials for Lucozade and Audi, both of which were choreographed by Russell Maliphant.
CARYS STATON Dancer
Carys trained at the Centre of Advanced Training at Swindon Dance, where she performed works by Luca Silvestrini and Kenneth Tharp, and Henri Oguike’s Fish Tales at Sadler’s Wells.
She continued her training at The Rambert School and graduated in 2011 with a first class honors degree. During her training, Carys performed works by Mark Baldwin and Kerry Nicholls and also performed a self-choreographed solo at Sadler’s Wells’ Lilian Baylis Studio and Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio.
In her final year, Carys was invited to tour nationally with Rambert performing Itzik Galili’s A Linha Curva. She joined Russell Maliphant Company in 2011. Carys has recently appeared in a television commercial for Lexus, which was choreographed by Russell Maliphant.