maliphantworks4 – The Coronet Theatre
A two-part program comprised of In a Landscape (Russell Maliphant) and Afterlight (Daniel Proietto), maliphantworks4 puts out a fourty-five minute program full of twists and turns. Its first act, a solo performance by Russell Maliphant, founder of the much awarded Russell Maliphant Dance Company and choreographer of both of the evening’s performances, is a conversation between shadow, light, and movement, brilliantly designed by Panagiotis Tomaras and dramatically scored by Dana Fouras.
Maliphant himself is utterly captivating but it is the interplay between his stage presence and the diaphanous and dynamic set dressings that unfurl and undulate throughout the performance that make In a Landscape so inescapably enthralling.
The miasmic nature of simultaneously revealing and obfus...