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Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Belgian dancer and choreographer
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Occupation(s) | Choreographer, dancer, director |
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (born 10 March ) is a Belgian dancer and choreographer and director.
He has made over 50 choreographic pieces and received two Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, three Ballet Tanz awards for best choreographer (, , ), the KAIROS Prize ()[1] and the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities ().[2]
Early life
He was born on 10 March in Antwerp, Belgium,[3] to a Flemish mother and a Moroccan father.[4]
After being talent-spotted, he participated as a dancer in variety of shows and television programs.
At the age of 19 he won his first prize for his solo performance that included a mixture of vogueing, African dance and hip-hop motifs, at the national dance competition initiated by Alain Platel.[citation needed]
Later on he started studies at P.A.R.T.S., the dance school run by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
Here he got to know techniques of such choreographers as William Forsythe, Pina Bausch and Trisha Brown.
Sidi larbi cherkaoui biography samples pdf By date. The only memory I have is just how much I wanted to dance afterwards, because it was so contagious to see the dancers. Is this contagious aspect of dancing something you think about when you create? It kind of straightaway had an impact on you.During these studies, Cherkaoui also worked together with hip-hop and modern jazz dance companies.[citation needed]
Career
Cherkaoui debuted as a choreographer in with Andrew Wale in the contemporary musical Anonymous Society. But he gained a broader acknowledgment with his work at les ballets C de la B with such pieces as Rien de Rien (), Foi () and Tempus Fugit ().
Whilst working there he undertook several other projects, including D’avant () with artistic partner Damien Jalet and zero degrees () with Akram Khan. He has also collaborated with abundance of theatres, opera houses and ballet companies, like Geneva Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in New York.[4] From to Cherkaoui was the associate artist at the Toneelhuis theater in Antwerp.
Sidi larbi cherkaoui biography samples The Belgian choreographer operates beyond, quote, unquote, contemporary dance, an expression he does not seem to fancy using. So that helped us develop an affinity with English from a very young age. There were a couple of moments, in a way. In the same year, Cherkaoui created a new production Fractus V for his company Eastman, in which he also performs.There he produced such works as Myth () and Origine (). In , he won the KAIROS Prize.[citation needed]
After premiering Sutra in , working around the world and collaborating with various artists (Dunas with María Pagés, Faun (both )), he founded his own company in January called Eastman in Antwerp, resident at deSingel International Arts Campus.[citation needed]
In the spring of , Cherkaoui won his first Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production for Babel(words) together with choreographer Damien Jalet and Antony Gormley.
In he gained his second Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production for Puz/zle.[citation needed]
In , he directed his first full-length theatre production Pluto in Tokyo and was movement director for Hamlet (Lyndsey Turner) at the Barbican Centre in London. In he also launched a new production called Fractus V for his company Eastman.[1]
Starting in , Cherkaoui was the artistic director at the Royal Ballet of Flanders, where he produced such works of his as Fall (), Exhibition () and Requiem ().
Cherkaoui was also an associate artist at Sadler's Wells, London.[citation needed] He left the Royal Ballet of Flanders to become the artistic director of Le Grand Théâtre de Genève in Switzerland in [5]
In February , he appeared in a dancing presentation in Woodkid's release "I Will Fall for You".[6]
Original works
Cherkaoui's work can be divided chronologically in five periods: Debut (1), Les Ballets C.
de la B. (2), Toneelhuis (3), Eastman (4) and Royal Ballet Flanders/Eastman (5).
Debut
- Iets op Bach ()
- Anonymous Society ()
Les ballets C. de la B.
- Rien de Rien ()
- OOK ()
- It ()
- d’avant ()
- Foi ()
- Tempus Fugit ()
- In Memoriam ()
- Loin ()
- zero degrees ()
- Corpus Bach ()
- Mea Culpa ()
- End ()
Toneelhuis
- Myth ()
- L'Homme de Bois ()
- La Zon-Mai ()
- Origine ()
- Sutra ()
- Orbo Novo ()
- Faun () for Sadler's Wells Theatre
- Dunas ()
Eastman
- Babel(words) ()
- Rein ()
- Play ()
- Shoes ()
- Bound ()
- Das Rheingold ()
- Labyrinth ()
- TeZukA ()
- Pure ()
- Constellation ()
- Puz/zle ()
- Automaton ()
- Anna Karenina ()
- Siegfried ()
- 生长genesis ()
- 4D ()
- Boléro () for Paris Opera Ballet
- m¡longa () for Sadler's Wells Theatre
- Noetic () for the Göteborg Opera Dance company
- Mercy ()
- Shell Shock () for La Monnaie
- Pluto () for Bunkamura
- L'Oiseau de Feu () for Stuttgart Ballet
- Harbor Me () for L.A.
Dance Project
- Fractus V ()
- Qutb ()
Royal Ballet Flanders / Eastman
UnitedHumans Award
In Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet were the first to win the UnitedHumans Award for Mutual Respect. This award is granted to individuals, associations or organizations that applies mutual respect, sincere friendship and equality in dignity to life in a sustainable or a leading and remarkable way or having en effective impact on society.[7]
Europe Theatre Prize
In , Cherkaoui was awarded the XV Europe Prize Theatrical Realities, in Saint Petersburg, with the following motivation:
Creator of a dance theatre with no artistic, geographical or style boundaries, finding in it all kinds of connections, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui knows how to build performances of ‘soul’, of great formal beauty and a strong emotional impact.
His works put into dance terms West and East, the worlds of dance and contemporary art, Chinese martial arts or Japanese manga, strangely incandescent worlds from beyond the grave where one can seek harmony through song, or beautifully disturbing visions of a future genesis, to call up but a few of them. The use of the body, movement, space and objects, his conceptual approach to dance, make every production by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui a scenic event whose language achieves a particular stylistic form, perfect and truly captivating.[8]
References
- ^ ab"Eastman – Overview".
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- ^"XVII EDIZIONE". Premio Europa per il Teatro (in Italian). Retrieved 15 January
- ^Craine, Debra; Mackrell, Judith (1 January ), "Cherkaoui, Sidi Larbi", The Oxford Dictionary of Dance, Oxford University Press, doi/acref/, ISBN, retrieved 17 May
- ^ abRoy, Sanjoy (17 December ).In memoriam No, not really, but I love the fact that you pointed it out. Is that something you would agree with, or is it just a caricature I have in my mind? Premio Europa per il Teatro in Italian. Career [ edit ].
"Step-by-step guide to dance: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 March
- ^Laubacher, Kyra (12 July ). "Comings and Goings: Ballet Is Seeing Some Major Leadership Changes". Pointe.
- ^Woodkid YouTube channel: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Woodkid - "I Will Fall For You"
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- ^"Catalogue XVII edition - Europe Theatre Prize"(PDF). 10 November p.
Sources
Further reading
- Wouter Hillaert, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui – Seeing connections, in: Theo Van Rompay (ed.), P.A.R.T.S.
20 years – 50 portraits, P.A.R.T.S., , p.89 – 93, ISBN
- Katie Verstockt, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Eastman, in: Contemporary Dance from Flanders – An Online Special by Flanders Arts Institute