Russell Maliphant

RUSSELL MALIPHANT
Russell Maliphant trained the Royal Ballet School and graduated into Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet before leaving to pursue a career in independent dance, working with companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre, Michael Clark & Company, Laurie Booth Company, Rosemary Butcher, Kirsty Simson and Peter Boneham (as choreographic mentor). He has studied anatomy, physiology, bio-mechanics, the Rolfing Method of Structural Integration and has explored a diverse range of techniques including classical ballet, contact improvisation, yoga and capoeira.

Russell began creating and performing in his own works in 1991 and in April 2000 he received an Arts Council Fellowship. He has created over 20 pieces to date, collaborating closely with lighting designer Michael Hulls and has set works on George Piper Dances, Lyon Opera Ballet, Ricochet Dance Company, George Piper Dances, The Batsheva Ensemble and Ballet de Lorraine.

Russell Maliphant has developed a highly individual movement vocabulary receiving a *Dance Umbrella/Time Out Award for Dance Performance* in 1991 for ‘raising improvisational dance to new heights’. In 2003, Russell Maliphant created *Broken Fall* with Sylvie Guillem and George Piper Dances with music by Barry Adamson, which won an *Olivier Award* for *Best New Dance Production*. Russell was awarded a *South Bank Show award for Dance* in 2003. He won Critics Choice Award 2005, South Bank Show Award for Dance 2006 and Laurence Olivier Award for best new dance production 2006.

He teaches regularly in the UK and abroad and maintains a private practice in the Rolfing Method of Structural Integration.