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"  Photo: Courtesy of Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones London&amp;#039;s annual Frieze Art Fair\u2014the Big Smoke&amp;#039;s answer to Art Basel Miami Beach\u2014kicks off this week, and with it a slew of parties and exhibitions are getting underway. In addition to the action at Regent&amp;#039;s Park, cool-kid fave Richie Culver will be showing &amp;quot;The Four Letter Word&amp;quot; at the Sanderson Hotel, where Damien Hirst&amp;#039;s Other Criteria will also be staging a pop-up show tonight. If you happen to be in London today, consider your dance card full. Tonight also marks the launch party and private view of Erebus, a short film directed by Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones, in collaboration with award-winning choreographer Russell Maliphant. The duo\u2014best known for their fashion imagery and work with the likes of Bj\u00F6rk, Massive Attack, and Alexander McQueen\u2014first met Maliphant when they asked him to choreograph a performance for Unkle&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Follow Me Down&amp;quot; music video starring Liberty Ross.   Photo: Courtesy of Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones &amp;quot;We clicked as artists and continued the creative handshake and got involved visually with his next production, &amp;#039;The Rodin Project,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Thornton Jones told us, referring to Maliphant&amp;#039;s use of dance to convey the form and grace of Auguste Rodin&amp;#039;s sculptures. The result is Erebus, named for a deity who personifies darkness in mythology. Du Preez and Thornton Jones used Maliphant&amp;#039;s dancers by embodying classicism with their nude, impossibly lithe bodies. The dancers populate an ominous underworld ruled by the title character, portrayed by Dickson Mbi. Select works stemming from the film will be sold via EastofMayfair.com.      &amp;quot;[Mbi] has this otherworldly mien, an embodiment of many feelings and mythologies becoming at once a living version of Rodin&amp;#039;s sculpture and a supernatural fantasy,&amp;quot; du Preez noted. And did we mention his killer thighs? For du Preez and Thornton Jones, Erebus was all about &amp;quot;creating an interplay with surrealism and classicism.&amp;quot; But when it comes to their own careers, it&amp;#039;s the surreal moments that stand out.  Photo: Courtesy of Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones &amp;quot;Creating the bird of light sculpture Lee McQueen commissioned us to do for the &amp;quot;La Dame Bleue&amp;quot; spring 2008 show (in homage to the late Isabella Blow) was surreal, bizarre, and probably one of our proudest achievements,&amp;quot; Thornton Jones added. Quite the feather in one&amp;#039;s cap, no? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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