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Russell Maliphant Dance Company & Encore East
Edd Arnold and Alethia Antonia created a new work for Encore East inspired by Russell Maliphants production Silent Lines, premiering at Dance East in 2021.
Alongside the creation of the work, RMDC conducted research with Helen Laws and Claire Farmer, using dance science methods to investigate the potential of Russell Maliphant’s physical practice to objectively measure improvements in strength, range of motion and ease of movement for the dancers.
“Edd and Alethia have a powerful focus on the dance and the choreographic task, being neither patronising nor judgemental but projecting a sense of being in the moment. They showed, rather than talked this approach. It was non-verbal, authentic and compelling. At times we loved feeling like part of a puzzle to be solved, a dancers’ toy box. But when Edd and Alethia solved the puzzle the results were astounding. They added flow, focus and richness of movement to the phrases we created, and we were collectively overjoyed as we experienced our choreography expand.” - Encore East dancer
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