Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

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Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, June 2009, final applause at Apocrifu , Villa Adriana , Tivoli

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (born March 10, 1976 in Antwerp ) is a Belgian dancer and choreographer of Flemish - Moroccan descent. Cherkaoui's choreographies use elements from many cultures, religions and art styles at the same time. For him, the common basis of this diversity is movement. He has created over 50 choreographic pieces and received two Olivier Pris for the best new dance production, three BallettTanz prizes (2008, 2011, 2017) and the KAIROS Prize (2009).

Life

Cherkaoui's father is Moroccan and Muslim who came to Belgium as a migrant worker, his mother is Belgian and Catholic. He was raised in French, although French was also a foreign language for his parents. The language of instruction in his state secular school was Dutch , in the Koran school he got to know the Koran . His career aspiration to be a dancer developed when he saw the dance film Fame - The Road to Fame on television at the age of seven , and later he also danced after Michael Jackson . Cherkaoui's father was against his choice of profession because he considered dance to be an art without a job. From classical ballet to flamenco to breakdance , he took all dance courses that were offered.

Cherkaoui (far left) with the Corsican singer group A Filetta at the end of Apocrifu , 2009, Villa Adriana

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's choreographies are characterized by the combination of elements from different cultures, religions and artistic styles. In his piece Sutra , which was voted the best performance of the year by ballet-tanz magazine in 2009 , he had seventeen young Shaolin monks perform. These apply the sequences of movements and punching sequences of kung fu in a choreography with, on, in, under and against wooden boxes.

In 2010, he premiered Babel (Words) , a total work of art consisting of live concert, theater, dance, text and sculpture at the Cirque Royal in Brussels. At the Movimentos Festival in Wolfsburg in May 2011, Cherkaoui danced with the flamenco dancer Maria Pagès in the world premiere of his piece Dunas . Cherkaoui's ballet Labyrinth had its world premiere in Het Muziektheater Amsterdam ( Das Musiktheater Amsterdam ) in June 2011 . The next world premiere of Cherkaoui followed on September 6, 2011 in the Sadler's Wells Theater in London with the dance piece TeZukA , which deals with the life of the manga artist Osamu Tezuka .

In 2013 Cherkaoui staged the Boléro by Maurice Ravel at the Paris Garnier Opera together with Damien Jalet . The costumes for this ballet were designed by the Italian fashion designer Riccardo Tisci , who works for Givenchy , in collaboration with the Serbian artist Marina Abramović . In December 2013 his piece Genesis had the world premiere in Beijing with the Chinese dancer Yabin Wang . In the 2014/15 season he staged Stravinsky's first ballet composition Der Feuervogel , a ballet piece that was written for the Ballets Russes in 1910 for the Stuttgart Ballet .

Since September 2015 Cherkaoui has been director of the Koninklijk Ballet Vlaanderen in Antwerp, which merged with the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp and Ghent to form the Kunsthuis in January 2014 .

In his dance theater piece “Fractus V” (2016) five men dance, act, speak and sing on the subject of fractures and violence. In 2017 he staged the Philip Glass opera Satyagraha , which depicts Gandhi's early years in South Africa, as a co-production by Theater Basel , Komische Oper Berlin and Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp and Gent .

Awards (selection)

Original works

Debut

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

Les Ballets C de la B

  • Rien de Rien  (2000)
  • OOK  (2000)
  • It  (2002)
  • D'Avant  (2002)
  • Foi  (2003)
  • Avignon  (2004)
  • In Memoriam  (2004)
  • Zero Degrees  (2005)
  • Corpus Bach  (2006)
  • Mea Culpa  (2006)
  • End  (2006)

Toneelhuis

  • Myth (2007)
  • L'homme de bois (2007)
  • Zone May (2007)
  • Origine (2008)
  • Sutra (2008)
  • Dunas (2009)
  • Orbo Novo (2009)

Eastman

  • Babel (words)  (2010)
  • Pure  (2010)
  • Play  (2010)
  • Shoes  (2010)
  • Bound  (2010)
  • The Rheingold  (2010)
  • Labyrinth  (2011)
  • TeZukA  (2011)
  • Constellation  (2011)
  • Puz / zle  (2012)
  • Automaton  (2012)
  • Anna Karenina  (2012)
  • Siegfried  (2012)
  • 生长 genesis  (2013)
  • 4D (2013)

Other works

  • Noetic  (2014)
  • Mercy  (2014)
  • Fall  (2015)
  • Exhibition  (2016)
  • Requiem  (2017)
  • Qutb  (2016)
  • Les Indes Galantes  (2016)
  • Satyagraha  (2017)
  • Icon  (2016)
  • Mosaic  (2017)

Movies

Dance films

  • Puz / zle. Direct broadcast from the Avignon Theater Festival , France, 2012, 90 min., Director: Don Kent, production: arte France, La Compagnie des Indes, German first broadcast: July 14, 2012, summary by arte, ( Memento of March 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  • Sutra. Score of the movements. Dance theater recording, Great Britain, 2008, 70 min., Director: Deborah May, German first broadcast: December 3, 2009, summary ( memento from June 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) by tanzsommer.at .
  • FOI / belief. Recording of a dance theater performance at the Dance Biennale Lyon , France, 2004, 89 min., Original version with subtitles, director: Andreas Morell, production: ZDF, first broadcast: May 21, 2005, announcement by arte, ( memento from April 18, 2013 in Web archive archive.today ).
  • Ballet Vlaanderen dances Ravel . Dance theater recording from June 3rd and 4th, 2016 in the Royal Flemish Opera House in Antwerp, Germany, 2016, 80 min., Production: 3sat , series: Festival Summer 2016 , first broadcast: 3rd September 2016 by 3sat, summary by ARD .

Documentaries

  • Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Babels dreams. (OT: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - Rêves de Babel. ) TV documentary, France, 2009, 59 min., Book: Christian Dumais-Lvowski, director: Don Kent, production: Bel Air Média, arte France, German premiere: 31. May 2010, table of contents by arte, ( Memento from May 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  • Monastery life, kung fu and modern dance theater. The choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in conversation. Documentation, Germany, 2008, 25 min., Director: Birgit Adler-Conrad, production: ZDF , first broadcast: December 6, 2009, summary by tv14 .

motion pictures

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Anke Dürr: iDance In: KulturSpiegel , No. 6, May 31, 2010.
  2. ↑ Anke Dürr: Dance star Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Bruce Lee in Babylon. In: KulturSpiegel , January 8, 2011.
  3. ↑ Summary of: Monastery life, Kung-Fu and modern dance theater. ( Memento from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: ZDFtheaterkanal / tv14 .
  4. ↑ The Habitation Containers of Babylon. In: FAZ , April 30, 2010, p. 39, beginning of the article.
  5. ↑ Wiebke Hüster: Dance nomads pitch their tents. German premieres by Cherkaoui, Martin-Gousset and Decouflé at the “Movimentos” festival in Wolfsburg. In: FAZ , May 30, 2011, p. 27.
  6. ↑ Wiebke Hüster: Millions of bacteria are in it. In: FAZ , September 13, 2011, p. 40, beginning of the article.
      see. this: calligraphy and manga aesthetics. In: Deutschlandradio , September 8, 2011.
  7. ↑ Bony men delicately charm you. In: FAZ , May 7, 2013, p. 29, beginning of the article.
  8. ↑ Wiebke Hüster: Life is information. In: FAZ , January 12, 2014.
    Lilo Weber: “Genesis” by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in Antwerp. Combining styles, forms and cultures. In: NZZ , January 16, 2014.
  9. ↑ Irmela Kästner, Annette Stiekele: We live to die. In: Die Welt , February 5, 2014.
  10. ^ Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui appointed new artistic director of Royal Ballet Flanders. In: operaballet.be , February 4, 2015, (English).
  11. ↑ Koninklijk Ballet Vlaanderen became 'Kunsthuis'. In: Het Nieuwsblad , 22 January 2014, ( Flemish ).
  12. ↑ Ditta Rudle: "Fractus V": Dance the predetermined breaking point. In: Die Presse , January 12, 2017.
  13. ^ Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - KAIROS Prize Winner 2009. In: Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS
  14. ^ Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui received the title of Commander from L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. In: east-man.be , May 14, 2013, accessed on February 4, 2015.
  15. ↑ Wiebke Hüster: From Gogo through the Middle Ages to yoga for Tolstoy. The Belgian Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is the most famous and at the same time one of the youngest contemporary choreographers. In: FAZ , Thursday, December 6, 2012, p. 33, interview with the dancer.
personal data
SURNAME Cherkaoui, Sidi Larbi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp