a group of dancers covered in clay and lit by thematic lighting move hypnotically

Kairos

Visual Arts and Design • Dance
United Kingdom • Australian Premiere

Kairos is an installation by Russell Maliphant in collaboration with film artists Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones. Using three screens, it envelops its viewers in a rich visual landscape of sculptural bodies in motion, accompanied by an absorbing and evocative score from composer Mukul. 

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 his masterful control of flow, form and dynamics. 

'Maliphant has made something formal enough to satisfy the Académie, and sexy as (the gates of) hell' - Evening Standard

Presented by: Russell Maliphant and Lewis Major

Russell Maliphant OBE is one of Britain's most acclaimed modern dance creators. With a career spanning nearly 40 years, he has created over 20 works on artists as varied as Sylvie Guillem, Robert Lepage, Lyon Opera Ballet, The Batsheva Ensemble and Ballet Boyz. An associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells since 2005, his work is characterised by a unique and lauded approach to flow and energy and an ongoing exploration of the relationship between movement, light and music.

A free, rolling installation in the late hours at Light Adelaide