![]() Later in the week, another Sadler’s Wells associate artist, Russell Maliphant, brought his newest work to London. ![]() ![]() ‘Extraordinarily beautiful and always intriguing’: Russell Maliphant’s Vortex. This level of technique is ferociously hard, but they make it look effortless. Near the end came Boy Blue, the UK’s own superstars, their 40 dancers filling the stage with a thrillingly tight routine, a display of synchronised brilliance, playing on their home crowd advantage to raise the roof. ![]() B-boys Redo and Samuka of ILL-Abilities (from the Netherlands and Brazil) astonished with their power and brilliance, and then, very deliberately, walked away into the wings, forcing a confrontation with our normal ideas of ability and disability the Ghetto Funk Collective slid and grooved in slow, rhythmic motion on silent feet, their bodies loose, their vibe cool. I found I was smiling with delight as one act followed the other, the packed audience responding knowledgably and appreciatively to every nuance of style. BBC Young Dancer 2022 winner Max Revell provided a gentle solo about identity, wearing a suit on backwards, rising and falling like a sad clown in a spotlight the barefoot divas of Company Nicolas Huchard from France struck powerful poses and moved with expansive energy, elbows pumping, waacking in sinuous unison. ![]()
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