Overview

• born

  1976 antwerp, belguim
• dual nationality

  flemish and morrocan
• as a child i wanted to

  draw reality
• rien de rien


  -made as a memeber of Les Ballet C.

  -won prize at BITEF festival

  -worked on it with mentor/partner Damien Jalet
• at 19...


  won first prize for solo performance that includedvogueing, african dance and hip-hop motifsat the national dance competition initiated byAlan Platel
• influence ANNA DE KEERSMAEKER

  -studies at her school PARTS

  -training in contemporary, physical theatre, music analysis

  -know techniques of choreographers such as trisha brown, pina bausch
• influence WIM VANDEKEYBUS

  -animalistic qualities

  -how man responds to one single situation

  -created solo 'it' for larbi 2002
• influence TRISHA BROWN

  -contemporary

  -pedestrian movement

  -judsons church
• stylistic features

  -physical theatre approach

  -eclectic, embraces who he works with: hiphop, kathak, ballet, flamenco

  -extreme flexibility via yoga

  -other movement vocab: martial arts, thai chi

  -duet form

  -use of voice/text

  -diverse performers

  -collabaration
• links to icdsb

  -new forms of staging

  -eclectic

  -multiple language and dialect

  -pedestrian

  -identity/nationality
• babel year

  2010
• babel choreo

  slc and damien jalet
• babel set

  antony gormley

  -5 3d lightweight and movable frames
• babel language

  20 languages

  -explores language and its relationship to identity, religion and nationhood
• babel movement example

  -'the american' widens eyes and smiles

  -stands centre sstage surrounded by others dispersed

  -says 'people that don't speak english are illerate by global terms
• sutra themes

  -freedom and containment

  -new and old china

  -building and destroying

  -transformations

  -journey of acceptance
• sutra means

  string or thread in sanskrit
• sutra dancers

  17 monks plus dong dong and slc
• sutra musicians

  5 live

  piano, percussion, string
• why did slc go to the temple?


  -search for enlightenment

  -escape the western world

  -bruce lee- kung-fu

  -respected themonks dynamics, explosive to complete stillness

  -'my work has always been a search for the moral code'

  -'I always felt dancing was a very spiritual experience
• slc asked master shi yan da

  'why are they preaching such peacefullness and yet fighting like madmen?'

  -meditation= quieten the mind

  -kung-fu= quieten the body
• slc diary:

  'i want to stay here forever'

  both slc and the monks didn't drink, ate vegetarian, valued physical movement and spirituality
• dong dong quote

  'in a way dong dong understands me best'

  -most open and curious to work with (10 years old)

  'full potential is still open so you can be anything
• 5 animals of kung-fu

  -dragon

  -snake

  -monkey

  -tiger

  -crane
• milonga quote

  'if there is such thing as my dance style, it is rooted in touch, in physical contact and that is inherent in the tango
• sutra music

  'musicians are following the monks'-larbi

  -devloped the movement after seeing the movement

  -syzmon took a pre-recorded score to china then developed it

  -visit to china, percussion in meditation, mountains and way of life formed syzmons intitial 'soundscape'

  -didn't want traditional chinese music= collabaration
• pascalia

  -made in spain, popular in italy and all of europe

  -mantra

  -4 underying notes with melody over, builds
• syzmon quotes

  -'constant flowing of energy from their bodies to the musicians'

  -'the music has something medatitive about it'

  -'for me this piece is about contradiction'

  -'the music brings an emotion to bring the piece to a different place
• box size and weight

  60 by 60 by 180cm

  32 kilos
• gormley quotes

  -'original plan was containment and shelter'

  -'it's never quite clear if it's a sinister form or a game'

  -'it creates a collective body'

  -interest of gormleys to work with intelligent non-dancer bodies (human form)
• the boxes

  -gormley 'envisoned a rising structure'

  -larbis imprint to use the boxes as dancers

  -'clones' of warrior monks mimic gormley's 'clones' of the body
• re-ordering kung-fu movement like

  'architecture
• What do the boxes symbolise

  Freedom and Containment

  Mind and body connection

  Sometimes the body stops the mind from being free and other times it's the mind that stops the body from developing

  Training your body and training your mind is explicitly linked
• Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s background in a range of styles, including yoga and jazz, is combined with an interest in movement explored from a starting point of theatre.