"It's the energy and twisting of his forms that inspires me. I think there's a sense of movement in the sculptor's strength that can be captured. And instead of rendering it in two dimensions, dance can do it in three."

C'est bien l'energie de ses formes, les torsions qui m'inspirent. Je pense qu'il y a un sens du mouvement dans la force du sculpteur, que l'on peut capturer. Et au lieu de le rendre en deux dimensions, la danse le peut en trois.






Russell Maliphant Choreographer

Tuesday 21 February 2012

Rodin seen from the sky



This video shows a parallel between the material in Rodin's sculptures and the surface of the Earth (with Google Earth).
It can be used as a background scenography.

by Olivier Sidawy

Friday 17 February 2012

Rodin Reflections

...is on sale!

Please let your friends and family know tickets can now be purchased from the Sadler's Wells website or ticket office (+44844 412 4300) for the exhibition/performance on Friday March 16th in the Lilian Baylis Studio.



Rodin Reflections

16 March
Exhibition open: 6:30 – 9pm, performances 7 & 8pm
Rodin Reflections presents an evening of performance, installation, design and film inspired by the Russell Maliphant Company’s process for their new production, The Rodin Project. Commissioned especially for the Connect Festival, Rodin Reflections is a unique collaboration between London and Paris students, Sadler's Wells and Théâtre National de Chaillot to explore principles of human sculpture through space, movement, light and flow.*

* May contain images of nudity
Tickets: £5

Photo: Marion Lorillère, Lycée l'Initiative

Trip to Paris and then London

Hello English participants!

Have some of you booked for a trip to Paris around the 6th and the 7th of March?
We have organized a visit of Rodin's atelier for you. We'll also gather with French students in Chaillot and then attend the performance in the Musée Rodin.

Students here are also asking about the possibility to host some of you here and then be hosted in London during the festival.

Please tell us more! We're looking forward to meeting you!

Rehearsal in the Musée Rodin last Sunday

Starting with some warming, and then dancing in the exhibition in the middle of visitors. Some of them even started to draw what was happening... A big success!

















And then the first "performance for real" last Wednesday went perfectly well. We hope to see you for the second one, on the 7th of March!



























































Thursday 16 February 2012

WORK IN PROGRESS- Inspirations- reflections - -





It would be nice to share drawings, reflections, experiences here....




Inspired by Rodin's reflections whilst painting








: "Capturing the model' 


           Inspired by the body, pausing for the artist


First ideas and inspirations for a future performance, 


a live drawing on body through projection of watercolors ...


























Mahana L D

Sadler's Wells Group

Hello Everyone! I was asked some time ago to explain to everyone where the London Participants are with creating their Rodin Reflections work here at Sadler's Wells. We're a bit clearer now so I thought I'd explain a little about the concept that we're working on here!

Together we're looking into creating a 'physical gallery', a kind of living gallery space of physical installations that trace the journey of an artwork from the artist's initial creation of a work through to the reactions of the people who observe it.

We're discussing the idea of projecting images or videos that the performers can interact with or react to. Over the next week or so I will be looking back through the Blog at the great work that you have all been creating with a view to perhaps integrating some of these videos or images - if you wouldn't mind!

If any of you who are creating video or photographic work have a specific interest in providing material for us to use, then feel free to leave a comment to this post or contact me at
info@timcasson.co.uk

Keep up the good work guys, everything I've seen so far is really exciting!

Tim

Friday 10 February 2012

WORKSHOP SUNDAY 5 FEB 2012

Pictures of experimentation led by different groups.

Des images d experimentations menees par differents groupes.








See you soon
A bientot

Wednesday 1 February 2012

Exposition à Chaillot


Une petite exposition le soir de 2 premières et d'un autre vernissage, mais un succès! Bravo à tous et au 9 février pour le spectacle et la rencontre avec Russell.

Et tout de même, bravo aussi à la compagnie pour ce superbe concentré de pure beauté...


A small exhibition the same night as two premieres and another exhibition opening, but a success! Bravo! Next meeting in Chaillot on the 9th for the performance and a discussion with Russell.

And also congratulations to the company for this concentrate of pure beauty...