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Downtime with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
FromDOWNTIME - interviews with dance artists & arts leaders, talking about dance & the arts
Downtime with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
FromDOWNTIME - interviews with dance artists & arts leaders, talking about dance & the arts
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Length:
71 minutes
Released:
Jul 13, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Belgian/Moroccan Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is one of the world’s most sought after choreographers. He’s made over 50 shows, works in contemporary dance, ballet, film and theatre and has picked up a frankly embarrassing haul of awards.Collaborators include Antony Gormley, Damien Jalet, Marina Abramovic and Beyonce – to name but a few.I worked with Larbi and Gormley on Sutra, and with Larbi and Damien Jalet on the Olivier Award winning Babel (words) around 2008 – 2010.As well as running his own company Eastman, since 2015 he has been the Artistic Director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders.Conversations with Larbi are always extremely free-flowing. Here our wide-ranging chat covers his experience of Covid-19 as a person, a choreographer and the AD of Ballet Vlanderen, as well as how the intimacy of his practice has evolved in response to both his position as a leader, and an awareness engendered by the #MeToo movement.I popped up on his screen while he was at home in Antwerp in late May 2020.Enjoy!
Released:
Jul 13, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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Downtime with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui by DOWNTIME - interviews with dance artists & arts leaders, talking about dance & the arts