Event

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

World Premiere of New Work by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - Program B

Saturday, February 18, 2017 - 1:00am to 3:00am
Sunday, February 19, 2017 - 1:00am to 3:00am
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 12:30am to 2:30am
Friday, February 24, 2017 - 1:00am to 3:00am
Saturday, February 25, 2017 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Internationally acclaimed Flemish choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, brings new work to New York.

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 fully-fledged choreographic pieces and picked up a slew of prestigious awards.

He works with a variety of theatres, opera houses and ballet companies from the world (Dutch National Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, GöteborgsOperan Danskompani, Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon in Tokyo, Stuttgart Ballet. Los Angeles Dance Company). Cherkaoui also received much international acclaim for his choreography in Joe Wright’s feature film Anna Karenina (2012). Cherkaoui directed and choreographed Shell Shock (2014), an opera for La Monnaie (Brussels) with music by Nicholas Lens and text by Nick Cave.
In 2015, Cherkaoui directed his first full-length theatre production Pluto based on the award-winning manga series by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki at Bunkamura in Tokyo.

Cherkaoui assumed the role of artistic director at the Royal Ballet of Flanders in 2015. He is also associate artist at Sadler’s Wells, London, guest artistic director of the National Youth Dance Company, as well as dance director of Festival Equilibrio in Rome.

More info about Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: www.east-man.be/en/35//

The Martha Graham Company returns to The Joyce bringing three diverse programs collected under the season theme Sacred/Profane, including the premiere of a new work by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, who draws on Sufi mysticism to create a piece set to traditional Middle Eastern music.

Program B – Feb 17, 18 at 8 pm; Feb 21 at 7:30 pm; Feb 23 at 8 pm; Feb 25 at 2 pm
Primitive Mysteries; Rust; World Premiere of New Work by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui; Diversion of Angels