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Still Current
Sadler's Wells, London EC1
Still Current is a collection of five pieces varying in length by the dancer and choreographer Russell Maliphant.
The duos and trios comprising the programme have been created in collaboration with and as a response to each of his dancers' expressive powers, with Maliphant himself providing a brilliant performance as, defying advancing years, he moves at a rate of knots to defy gravity.
In its most captivating moments Still Current's precise calibration of speed and cross-hatched lighting effects designed by Michael Hulls creates a stunning synthesis of the audio-visual and choreographic.
While Maliphant's presence inevitably draws the eye, it does not detract from Dickson Mbi's coiled-spring physicality in Still and the agility of Thomasin Gulgec's floor work in Afterlight.
But it is Carys Staton, emerging from the dark in Two, who provides the greatest emotional charge as the chiaroscuro-effect lighting makes the boundary between physical presence and absence ever more blurred.
