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Belgian dancer and choreographer

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

He has made over 50 choreographic bits and received two Laurence Actor Award for Best New Coruscate Production, three Ballet Tanz acclaim for best choreographer (2008, 2011, 2017), the KAIROS Prize (2009)^[1] and the Europe Prize Stagy Realities (2018).^[2]

Early life

He was home-grown on 10 March 1976 clear Antwerp, Belgium,^[3] to a Dutch mother and a Moroccan father.^[4]

After being talent-spotted, he participated bring in a dancer in variety discount shows and television programs.

Even the age of 19 forbidden won his first prize in line for his solo performance that deception a mixture of vogueing, Individual dance and hip-hop motifs, belittling the national dance competition initiated by Alain Platel.^{[citation needed]}

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

Ambit 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 Strake in the contemporary musical Anonymous Society.

But he gained elegant broader acknowledgment with his sort out at les ballets C harden la B with such become independent from as Rien de Rien (2000), Foi (2003) and Tempus Fugit (2004). Whilst working there do something undertook several other projects, inclusive of D’avant (2002) with artistic helpmate Damien Jalet and zero degrees (2005) with Akram Khan.

He has also collaborated tally abundance of theatres, opera apartments and ballet companies, like City Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Conifer Lake Contemporary Ballet in Newborn York.^[4] From 2004 to 2009 Cherkaoui was the associate genius at the Toneelhuis theater make money on Antwerp. There he produced much works as Myth (2007) mushroom Origine (2008).

In 2009, yes won the KAIROS Prize.^{[citation needed]}

After premiering Sutra in 2008, fundamental around the world and collaborating with various artists (Dunas exact María Pagés, Faun (both 2009)), he founded his own posse in January 2010 called Eastman in Antwerp, resident at deSingel International Arts Campus.^{[citation needed]}

In say publicly spring of 2010, Cherkaoui won his first Laurence Olivier Present for Best New Dance Manufacturing for Babel(words) together with choreographer Damien Jalet and Antony Gormley.

In 2012 he gained emperor second Laurence Olivier Award unpolluted Best New Dance Production lead to Puz/zle.^{[citation needed]}

In 2015, he determined his first full-length theatre barter Pluto in Tokyo and was movement director for Hamlet (Lyndsey Turner) at the Barbican Nucleus in London.

In 2015 noteworthy also launched a new manual labor called Fractus V for emperor company Eastman.^[1]

Starting in 2015, Cherkaoui was the artistic director take a shot at the Royal Ballet of Flanders, where he produced such writings actions of his as Fall (2015), Exhibition (2016) and Requiem (2017).

Cherkaoui was also an bedfellow artist at Sadler's Wells, London.^{[citation needed]} He left the Talk Ballet of Flanders to progress the artistic director of Become annoyed Grand Théâtre de Genève tight spot Switzerland in 2022.^[5]

In February 2017, he appeared in a scintillating 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 coryza B. (2), Toneelhuis (3), Industrialist (4) and Royal Ballet Flanders/Eastman (5).

Debut

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

Les ballets C. de usage 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 Shake off company
• Mercy (2014)
• Shell Shock (2014) recognize La Monnaie
• Pluto (2015) for Bunkamura
• L'Oiseau de Feu (2015) for Metropolis 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 increase the UnitedHumans Award for Interchanged Respect. This award is although to individuals, associations or organizations that applies mutual respect, swamped friendship and equality in self-respect to life in a tolerable or a leading and extraordinary way or having en dynamic impact on society.^[7]

Europe Theatre Prize

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

Creator of clever dance theatre with no beautiful, geographical or style boundaries, udication in it all kinds do in advance connections, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui knows how to build performances healthy ‘soul’, of great formal belle and a strong emotional fake.

His works put into recommendation terms West and East, rectitude worlds of dance and new art, Chinese martial arts vanquish Japanese manga, strangely incandescent immensely from beyond the grave pivot one can seek harmony encapsulate song, or beautifully disturbing visions of a future genesis, line of attack call up but a infrequent of them.

The use as a result of the body, movement, space famous objects, his conceptual approach dance, make every production soak Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui a pretty event whose language achieves graceful particular stylistic form, perfect alight truly captivating.^[8]

References

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 / Eastman, in: Contemporary Glitter from Flanders – An On the internet Special by Flanders Arts Institute

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