Eastman / Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Nomad

Eastman / Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Nomad
© Filip Van Roe

Description

The theme of Nomad is the desert and its people: the dry, cracked earth, traversed by nomads and their animals, by fugitives and seekers. In images that are both sad and surreal, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui depicts the thirst for water and community, the comfort of mutual aid, without which no one can survive in the vast emptiness – and the boundless freedom of this desolate landscape. To music combining African and Oriental sounds, we see the proud, patient nomads struggle against the elements, raindrops falling on the desert and people who themselves become sand.

After many forays into other genres, from ballet to opera, Cherkaoui returns to his own company, Eastman, for which he has created all his independent works, with this homage to his Moroccan roots. Once again, he fearlessly reaches beyond dance and, like a magician, draws images, music and foreign traditions into his soft, flowing style. A solitary song echoes through the desert light, and alongside the endless wandering, the dance is characterized by the beauty of Arabic ornamentation. But when the evening glow of the sand dunes becomes too deep a red, too menacing, the desert is all that remains of humanity. It expands to encompass the whole planet, all the way to the apocalypse.

With live music

Duration: approx. 65 minutes no intermission
Age guidance: from 6 years

For Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, dancing means telling the story of the desert through the body. The performers are simultaneously sand, wind, movement and emotion. — Arts-chipels.fr

Subtly, he unfolds the beauty of the desert as a phenomenon of change leading into a new, uncertain era. — Kölnische Rundschau

This performance transports us to a powerful and poetic world that leaves us deeply shaken. Beautiful! — Arts-chipels.fr

A unique experience, which will truly move you. — L’Etincelle

A piece between fantasy and nightmare. The dance is organic, yet inventive: the choreographer forges a vocabulary of his own, borrowing elements from hiphop, martial arts, contemporary dance, with arms and torsions like sensual calligraphies flowing through the dancers' bodies. — Le Figaro Culture

Duration: approx. 65 minutes no intermission
Age recommendation: From 12 years

Participants

  • Choreography & directed by
    Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
  • Music Composition
    Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
  • Felix Buxton
  • Kaspy N'dia
  • Additional Music
    Yarkin Türk Ritm Grubu
  • Gökhan Filizman
  • Ahmet Şahin
  • Mehmet Kemiksiz
  • Macadi Nahhas
  • Al Qantarah
  • Oli Savill (Percussion)
  • Mohammed El Arabi-Serghini
  • traditional songs from the Amami islands in Japan
  • Sound Design
    Felix Buxton
  • Dance
    Mabrouk Gouicem
  • Pol Van den Broek
  • Kazutomi 'Tsuki' Kozuki
  • Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern
  • Nassim Baddag
  • Oliver Tida Tida
  • Jonas Vandekerckhove
  • Christina Guieb
  • Zoe Hollinshead
  • Jonas Garrido Verwerft
  • Live Music
    Kaspy N'dia
  • Costumes
    Jan-Jan Van Essche
  • Set Design
    Willy Cessa
  • Adam Carrée
  • Light Design
    Willy Cessa
  • Sam Mary
  • Video Design
    Paul Van Caudenberg
  • Assistant Choreographer
    Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern
  • Oscar Ramos
  • Rehearsal director
    Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern
  • Artistic Advisor & Associate
    Václav Kuneš
  • Vocal Coach
    Anna Sato
  • Music engineered by
    Duncan F. Brown
  • Implementation Set
    Martin Baarda
  • Technician
    Geoffrey Oelbrandt (Artfex) (Technische Koordination & Licht // Technical Coordination & Lights)
  • Ken De Bosscher (Artfex) (Video)
  • Dimitri Meersschaut (Artfex) (Sound)
  • Eline Willemarck (Assistenz Bühne // Stage Assistant)
  • Wardrobe
    Amber De Saeger
  • Logistics
    Nils Geernaert
  • Artistic Production / Tour Manager
    Alessandra Oliveira
  • Produced by
    Eastman
  • Co-commissioned by
    420PEOPLE
  • Cultuurcentrum Berchem
  • Thanks to
    Francesca Maria Amante
  • Sabine Groenendijk
  • Vojtěch Rak
  • Antonin Rioche
  • Filip Staněk
  • Nicola Leahey
  • Jason Kittelberger
  • Satyagraha Tänzer:innen von Eastman/Theater Basel // Satyagraha dancers of Eastman/Theater Basel
  • Karthika Naïr
  • Carly Heathcote
  • With the support of
    der BNP Paribas Stiftung the BNP Paribas Foundation
  • der flämischen Regierung the Flemish Government
  • und dem „Tax Shelter“-Programm der belgischen Regierung and the Belgian Federal Government’s Tax Shelter programme

Tickets and dates

Presale: Kat. 1: 55,— / erm.: 48,— // U18: 29,— // Kat. 2: 49,— / erm.: 41,— / U18: 23,— // Kat. 3: 42,— / erm.: 34,— / U18: 17,— // Kat. 4: 32,— / erm.: 25,— / U18: 14,— // Kat. 5: 21,— / erm.: 17,— / U18: 9,— €
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