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СИДИ ЛАРБИ ШЕРКАУИ

Noetic

source: kampnagelde

Unter dem Titel SPIRIT präsentieren Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui und Saburo Teshigawara, Weltstars des zeitgenössischen Tanzes, zwei herausragende Arbeiten, die um das Thema Existenz, Werden und Vergehen kreisten. Der Doppelabend ist eine Auftragsarbeit für das Ballett Göteborg.

NOETIC ist das Prinzip, das ein kosmisches mit jedem individuellen Bewusstsein verbindet. Die Schönheit dieses Ordnungsgedanken findet sich in Cherkaouis expressiven Tanzbewegungen sowie in den geometrischen Stahlgebilden des Bildenden Künstlers Antony Gormley gespiegelt. Die atmosphärische Dichte wird durch einen traditionellen japanischen live-Perkussionisten und Gesang intensiviert. Raum, Ordnung und Geist werden hier nicht als starre Strukturen, sondern als fließende poetische Strömungen gezeigt.

Saburo Teshigawara ist Bildender Künstler, Poet und »Tanz-Macher«. Im Kontext von SPIRIT präsentiert er eine ebenso schöne wie schmerzhafte Arbeit – die Metamorphose: Denn »selbst wenn wir glauben, dass wir komplett ruhig sind, sind unsere Körper in Bewegung. Diese Bewegung ist das Leben. Zu stoppen bedeutet sterben. Das Leben ist wie Rad fahren – wenn Du stoppst, verlierst Du das Gleichgewicht und fällst um. Leben ist Balance in Bewegung« (Teshigawara ).
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source: east-manbe

Noetic explores man’s instinctive need to structure every detail of our existence, and our longing to break free of the rules and discover what lyes beyond them. The dancer´s movements in Noetic are mechanical and automated in appearance. Larbi wants to show the audience how we create structure for and to one another. They build, change and deconstruct reality.
The word “noetic” comes from the Greek word noetikos which means “intuitive mind” or “inner ability”. Edgar Mitchell, the American astronaut, who founded The Institute of Noetic Sciences dedicated to research the role of consciousness in human evolution, revived the use of the word.
The set is designed by widely acclaimed artist Antony Gormley. It will give the dancers both bodily extensions and the constructive elements to create a potential architecture for individual and collective action. The harmonic and emotional music is composed by Szymon Brzóska for the Göteborg Opera Orchestra led by Henrik Schaefer. Percussionist Shogo Yoshii brings a flavor of traditional Japanese music to the creation. Miriam Andersén, Swedish singer and “riksspelman” will take part in Noetic as a vocal soloist. Costume design by Belgian fashion design team Les Hommes.
Premiere: 08 March 2014, The Göteborg Opera – Göteborg (SE)
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source: artsaliveca

Belgian contemporary dance / interdisciplinary creation / Les Ballets C. de la B.
(1976- )

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui fuses various techniques – including hip hop, modern, jazz, ballet, Irish, African and kathak – into his own choreographic style. His works are theatrical, dynamic, music-driven productions.

Growing up in Antwerp, Belgium, Cherkaoui taught himself to dance by watching music videos. With a Flemish mother and a Moroccan father, Cherkaoui says his dual upbringing made him feel in-between. He soon realized that dance and music could also be that way.

Cherkaoui began dancing for television and performed hip hop with The Bang Gang Dance Company before studying at Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s dance school, PARTS (Professional Arts Research and Training Studios). He received his first award in 1995 for Best Belgian Dance Solo in a competition in Ghent launched by Alain Platel.

Two years later, Platel asked Cherkaoui to work on Iets op Bach (1998). The production was staged by Les Ballets C. de la B., a choreographic collective formed by Platel. Iets op Bach became a worldwide success and toured internationally from 1998 until 2001.

Cherkaoui has won many awards, including the Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1999, the Barclay Theatre Award in 2000 and Best Choreography at the Movimentos Awards in Wolfsburg, Germany, in 2003. He has staged subsequent works like Rien de Rien (2000) and Foi (2003) through Les Ballets C. de la B.
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source: east-manbe

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s debut as a choreographer was in 1999 with Andrew Wale’s ‘contemporary musical’, Anonymous Society. Since then he has made more than 20 full-fledged choreographic pieces and picked up a slew of awards, including the Fringe First award in Edinburgh, the special prize at the BITEF Festival in Belgrade, the promising choreographer prize at the Nijinsky Awards in Monte Carlo, the Movimentos award in Germany and the Helpmann award from Australia in 2007. In 2008 Sadler’s Wells named him an Associate Artist and in 2009 the Alfred Toëpfer Stiftung conferred its Kairos prize to him in recognition of his artistic philosophy and his quest for cultural dialogue. In 2008 and 2011 he was declared Choreographer of the Year by the dance magazine Tanz.

While Cherkaoui’s initial pieces were made as a core member of the Belgian collective, Les Ballets C. de la B. – Rien de Rien (2000), Foi (2003) and Tempus Fugit (2004) – he also undertook parallel projects that both expanded and consolidated his artistic vision. Ook (2000) was born from a workshop for mentally disabled actors held by Theater Stap in Turnhout with choreographer Nienke Reehorst; D’avant (2002) from an encounter with longstanding artistic partner Damien Jalet, Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola and Luc Dunberry of Sasha Waltz & Guests company; and zero degrees (2005) with friend and choreographer Akram Khan. He has worked with a variety of theatres, opera houses and ballet companies, but from 2004–2009 Cherkaoui was based in Antwerp where he was artist in residence at Toneelhuis, the theatre that produced Myth (2007) and Origine (2008).

In 2008 Cherkaoui premiered Sutra at Sadler’s Wells. This award-winning collaboration with Antony Gormley and the Shaolin monks continues to tour the world to great critical acclaim. After his first commissioned piece in North America, Orbo Novo (for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet) and a series of duets such as Faun (which premiered at Sadler’s Wells as part of In the Spirit of Diaghilev) and Dunas with flamenco danseuse María Pagés (both in October 2009), he launched his new company Eastman in 2010, resident at deSingel International Arts Campus.
Spring 2010 saw him reunited with co-choreographer Damien Jalet and Antony Gormley to make Babel(words), the third part of a triptych that began with Foi and Myth. That same year he created Rein, a duet featuring Guro Nagelhus Schia and Vebjørn Sundby, as well as Play, a duet with kuchipudi danseuse Shantala Shivalingappa and Bound, a duet for Shanell Winlock and Gregory Maqoma as part of Southern Bound Comfort. Babel(words) triumphed at the 2011 Laurence Olivier Awards, winning best new dance production and outstanding achievement in dance for Antony Gormley.

2011 saw the creation of TeZukA, a new piece for 15 performers about the works of the master of Japanese manga, Osamu Tezuka. Cherkaoui also created Labyrinth for Dutch National Ballet.
In 2012 he created Puz/zle with 11 dancers and the Corsican men’s choir A Filetta, Lebanese singer Fadia Tomb El-Hage and Japanese musician Kazunari Abe. He also helmed the choreography for Anna Karenina, the film by Joe Wright, featuring ao Keira Knightley and Jude Law.
During the spring of 2013 Cherkaoui made several pieces: 4D for Eastman, Boléro (in collaboration with Damien Jalet and Marina Abramovic) for the Paris Opera Ballet and m¡longa, a tango performance, for Sadler’s Wells. Autumn 2013 saw the premiere of 生长genesis, a new Eastman production,in Beijing.
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source: enoperase

Multiple award winning and constantly topical Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui creates Noetic, along with a distinguished team comprising sculptor Antony Gormley, fashion designer duo Les Hommes, and composer Szymon Brzóska. The creation explores man’s instinctive need to structure every detail of our existence, and our longing to break free of the rules and discover what lies beyond them. With at times mechanical, at times flowing, classical movements, the dancers construct, change and deconstruct reality.
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s roots are in the cultures of both Morocco and Central Europe. His artistic identity has been influenced by many years of involvement in the Belgian dance company Les Ballets C de la B, whose work belongs among the most exciting things to have happened within dance in recent decades.
Cherkaoui is known for bringing together art forms, cultures and traditions. His dance company, Eastman, is attributed the title of European cultural ambassadors in 2013. The harmonic and emotional music in Noetic is composed for The Göteborg Opera Orchestra.

Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture in the seventies through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions of where human beings stand in relation to nature and the cosmos. Antony Gormley and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui have collaborated on three previous projects; Sutra, Babel and Zero Degrees. His set design for Noetic will give the dancers both bodily extensions and the constructive elements to create a potential architecture for individual and collective action.

Saburo Teshigawara, KoreografNORIFUMI INAGAKI
Virtuoso Saburo Teshigawara – sculptor, poet, visual artist and “dance maker” – has received great honours for his choreographies and body installations both in his home country of Japan and internationally. Faithful to the culture of his homeland, Teshigawara is minimalist – everything he creates is aesthetic, beautiful and pared down. It is also spiritual and subtle.
His Metamorphosis, inspired by Kafka’s novels, is an art work filled with pain and breathtaking beauty. At its centre is the body’s constant changes, the cells’ constant renewal – the metamorphosis: “Even when we believe we are completely still, our bodies are moving. That movement is life. To stop is to die. Life is like cycling – if you stop you lose your balance and fall over. Life is balance in motion.”
Metamorphosis, created for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, is also about controlling, and allowing oneself to be controlled.
The Göteborg Opera Chorus also feature on stage, their ethereal voices contrasting with the dancers’ sometimes constrained bodies.
The works that The Göteborg Opera Chorus performs in Metamorphosis include:
Olivier Messiaen: O sacrum convivium!, choral motet (1937)
Maurice Ravel: Soupir (Suck), the first of three songs from Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (1913) transcribed by Clytus Gottwald for a cappella choir.
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source: territoryfestru

Сиди Ларби Шеркауи
Родился в 1976 году, в конце 90-х участвовал в работах бельгийского коллектива Les Ballets C. de la B., как хореограф дебютировал в 1999 году при создании «современного мюзикла» Эндрю Вейля «Анонимное общество». С тех пор Сиди Ларби создал более 20 полноценных хореографических постановок в театрах США и Европы и был удостоен множества наград, таких как: Fringe First Award в Эдинбурге, специальный приз фестиваля BITEF в Белграде, Премия Нижинского для многообещающих хореографов в Монте-Карло, Премия Movimentos в Германии и Премия Helpmann в Австралии в 2007 году. В 2009 Фонд Альфреда Тёплера Стифтунга (Alfred Toëpler Stiftung F.V.S.) присудил ему премию Kairos в знак признания творческой философии Шеркауи, а также его заслуг в укреплении диалога культур. В 2008 и 2011 годах он был назван Хореографом года балетным журналом Tanz. В 2010 году основал собственную танцевальную компанию в родном Антверпене – Eastman. В 2011 спектакль «Вавилон» был удостоен Премии Лоуренса Оливье за лучшую постановку нового танца. Недавняя работа Сиди Ларби – квинтэссенция его творческого метода, подразумевающего пересечение культур: в 2012 он поставил «Паззл» с 11 танцорами и корсиканским мужским хором A Filetta, ливанской певицей Фадией Томб Аль-Хаге и японским музыкантом Казунари Абе. Помимо прочего, Шеркауи руководил хореографией для «Анны Карениной» – фильма Джо Райта с Кирой Найтли и Джудом Лоу в главных ролях.

Слово «территория» предполагает наличие неких границ. Но наш фестиваль, приглашая на свою территорию, на самом деле доказывает, что в современном мире не должно быть границ. Нам близка идея общности культур, взаимных пересечений и дополнений различных жанров и видов искусства. Не только на сценах и в выставочных залах «Территории», но и в аудиториях и зрительных залах фестиваля царит увлекательное многоголосье – для фестиваля принципиально важно оставаться школой, на которую съезжаются студенты и театральная молодежь из многих городов России и ближнего зарубежья. Международная программа, как и всегда, дополнена мастер-классами и образовательными проектами – у участников «Территории» есть уникальный шанс осмыслить свое место в современном культурном контексте, научиться мыслить самостоятельно и бесстрашно. Сегодня именно это – насущная задача. Программа фестиваля построена так, чтобы зритель мог почувствовать богатство и разнообразие актуального искусства.
Одна из важнейших его тем – «я и другой», и многие события «Территории» прямо касаются этой темы, исследуя ее исторические, политические, социальные и культурные аспекты. Вообще, сегодня спектр исполнительских искусств – чрезвычайно широк, поэтому в программе и свидетельский театр, и современный танец, и «живая» инсталляция, и музыка, и спектакль-дискуссия, и site-specific theatre, и жанры, у которых еще даже нет названий. В этом и есть задача фестиваля – быть на шаг впереди от общепринятого, с любопытством заглядывать в завтра.