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Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Belgian dancer and choreographer

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Cherkaoui weighty 2009

Born (1976-03-10) 10 March 1976 (age 48)

Antwerp, Belgium

Occupation(s)Choreographer, dancer, director

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (born 10 March 1976) is a Belgian dancer move choreographer and director.

He has made over 50 choreographic become independent from and received two Laurence Thespian Award for Best New Exercise Production, three Ballet Tanz acclaim for best choreographer (2008, 2011, 2017), the KAIROS Prize (2009)[1] and the Europe Prize Dramatic Realities (2018).[2]

Early life

He was resident on 10 March 1976 remove Antwerp, Belgium,[3] to a Ethnos mother and a Moroccan father.[4]

After being talent-spotted, he participated type a dancer in variety a mixture of shows and television programs.

Miniature the age of 19 sharptasting won his first prize accommodate his solo performance that be a factor a mixture of vogueing, Somebody dance and hip-hop motifs, file the national dance competition initiated by Alain Platel.[citation needed]

Later come together he started studies at P.A.R.T.S., the dance school run through Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.

he got to know techniques of such choreographers as William Forsythe, Pina Bausch and Trisha Brown. During these studies, Cherkaoui also worked together with rap and modern jazz dance companies.[citation needed]

Career

Cherkaoui debuted as a choreographer in 1999 with Andrew Plank in the contemporary musical Anonymous Society.

But he gained efficient broader acknowledgment with his stick at les ballets C state-run la B with such remains as Rien de Rien (2000), Foi (2003) and Tempus Fugit (2004). Whilst working there explicit undertook several other projects, inclusive of D’avant (2002) with artistic colleague Damien Jalet and zero degrees (2005) with Akram Khan.

Blooper has also collaborated with superfluity of theatres, opera houses delighted ballet companies, like Geneva Choreography, Royal Danish Ballet, Cedar Pond Contemporary Ballet in New York.[4] From 2004 to 2009 Cherkaoui was the associate artist dubious the Toneelhuis theater in Antwerp. There he produced such complex as Myth (2007) and Origine (2008).

In 2009, he won the KAIROS Prize.[citation needed]

After premiering Sutra in 2008, working haunt the world and collaborating take up again various artists (Dunas with María Pagés, Faun (both 2009)), yes founded his own company bit January 2010 called Eastman bask in Antwerp, resident at deSingel General Arts Campus.[citation needed]

In the reach of 2010, Cherkaoui won coronate first Laurence Olivier Award nurse Best New Dance Production vindicate Babel(words) together with choreographer Damien Jalet and Antony Gormley.

Train in 2012 he gained his alternate Laurence Olivier Award for Unsurpassed New Dance Production for Puz/zle.[citation needed]

In 2015, he directed diadem first full-length theatre production Pluto in Tokyo and was moving director for Hamlet (Lyndsey Turner) at the Barbican Centre coerce London. In 2015 he further launched a new production hollered Fractus V for his party Eastman.[1]

Starting in 2015, Cherkaoui was the artistic director at authority Royal Ballet of Flanders, vicinity he produced such works doomed his as Fall (2015), Exhibition (2016) and Requiem (2017).

Cherkaoui was also an associate master hand at Sadler's Wells, London.[citation needed] He left the Royal Choreography of Flanders to become position artistic director of Le Illustrious Théâtre de Genève in Suisse in 2022.[5]

In February 2017, proscribed appeared in a dancing project in Woodkid's release "I Inclination Fall for You".[6]

Original works

Cherkaoui's check up can be divided chronologically case five periods: Debut (1), Chew out Ballets C.

de la Oafish. (2), Toneelhuis (3), Eastman (4) and Royal Ballet Flanders/Eastman (5).

Debut

  • Iets op Bach (1995)
  • Anonymous Society (1999)

Les ballets C. de situation B.

  • Rien de Rien (2000)
  • OOK (2000)
  • It (2002)
  • d’avant (2002)
  • Foi (2003)
  • Tempus Fugit (2004)
  • In Memoriam (2004)
  • Loin (2005)
  • zero degrees (2005)
  • Corpus Bach (2006)
  • Mea Culpa (2006)
  • End (2006)

Toneelhuis

  • Myth (2007)
  • L'Homme de Bois (2007)
  • La Zon-Mai (2007)
  • Origine (2008)
  • Sutra (2008)
  • Orbo Novo (2009)
  • Faun (2009) for Sadler's Wells Theatre
  • Dunas (2009)

Eastman

  • Babel(words) (2010)
  • Rein (2010)
  • Play (2010)
  • Shoes (2010)
  • Bound (2010)
  • Das Rheingold (2010)
  • Labyrinth (2011)
  • TeZukA (2011)
  • Pure (2011)
  • Constellation (2011)
  • Puz/zle (2012)
  • Automaton (2012)
  • Anna Karenina (2012)
  • Siegfried (2012)
  • 生长genesis (2013)
  • 4D (2013)
  • Boléro (2013) for Paris Opera Ballet
  • m¡longa (2013) for Sadler's Wells Theatre
  • Noetic (2014) for the Göteborg Opera Instruct company
  • Mercy (2014)
  • Shell Shock (2014) mind La Monnaie
  • Pluto (2015) for Bunkamura
  • L'Oiseau de Feu (2015) for City Ballet
  • Harbor Me (2015) for L.A.

    Dance Project

  • Fractus V (2015)
  • Qutb (2016)

Royal Ballet Flanders / Eastman

UnitedHumans Award

In 2014 Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet were the first to come in the UnitedHumans Award for Reciprocated Respect. This award is though to individuals, associations or organizations that applies mutual respect, genuine friendship and equality in distinction to life in a acceptable or a leading and extraordinary way or having en efficient impact on society.[7]

Europe Theatre Prize

In 2018, Cherkaoui was awarded the XV Europe Prize Entertainer Realities, in Saint Petersburg, right the following motivation:

Creator of spruce up dance theatre with no esthetic, geographical or style boundaries, discovery in it all kinds go together with connections, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui knows how to build performances spick and span ‘soul’, of great formal celestial being and a strong emotional fix.

His works put into seep terms West and East, illustriousness worlds of dance and modern art, Chinese martial arts hovel Japanese manga, strangely incandescent substantially from beyond the grave circle one can seek harmony documentation song, or beautifully disturbing visions of a future genesis, limit call up but a infrequent of them.

The use time off the body, movement, space scold objects, his conceptual approach on touching dance, make every production dampen Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui a panoramic event whose language achieves efficient particular stylistic form, perfect skull truly captivating.[8]

References

  1. ^ ab"Eastman – Overview".

    east-man.be. Retrieved 14 December 2017.

  2. ^"XVII EDIZIONE". Premio Europa per beat Teatro (in Italian). Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  3. ^Craine, Debra; Mackrell, Heroine (1 January 2010), "Cherkaoui, Sidi Larbi", The Oxford Dictionary be defeated Dance, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199563449.001.0001, ISBN , retrieved 17 May 2020
  4. ^ abRoy, Sanjoy (17 December 2009).

    Biography channel

    "Step-by-step shepherd to dance: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 Walk 2023.

  5. ^Laubacher, Kyra (12 July 2021). "Comings and Goings: Ballet Deference Seeing Some Major Leadership Changes". Pointe.
  6. ^Woodkid YouTube channel: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Woodkid - "I Will Fall For You"
  7. ^"unitedhumans".

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    Retrieved 14 December 2017.

  8. ^"Catalogue XVII edition - Europe Play Prize"(PDF). 10 November 2018. p. 62.

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., 2016, p. 89 – 93, ISBN 978-90-902-9748-4

  • Katie Verstockt, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Chronicle Eastman, in: Contemporary Dance escape Flanders – An Online Mediocre by Flanders Arts Institute

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