• NOMAD 420PEOPLE & EASTMAN

When they first met six years ago, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Václav Kuneš recall, the similarities quickly proved to be so much stronger than the differences in their immediate worlds. The shared passion for diversity, not just in dance languages, but in the backgrounds of their dancers and their aspirations; their unflagging desire to provide opportunities for the dancers to enrich and be enriched by the collective experience; and to create an environment that fostered respect and humanity.

Today, as they approach their first joint artistic adventure, the joy and the hope are palpable. In Václav Kuneš's words, "I feel that this creation will be very human, that every dancer is able to let his or her voice to be seen and at the same time they can be proudly part of a bigger, larger mechanism, which, at the same time, is extremely organic."

And Sidi Larbi, who, with the dancers and artistic team of Eastman and 420People, is piecing together a mosaic drawn from the animate and inanimate elements of the desert, echoes the sentiment. Meanwhile, from the dance floor, we get glimpses of the fluidity and adaptability of creatures that thrive in the harshest of conditions; the beautiful transience of sand dunes and winds that change direction and shape and speed in the twinkling of an eye; the intense physical and emotional thirst, the yearning for water and safety, for consolation that guide both animal actions and the human quest for spirituality. And above all, the spirit of togetherness, of friendship and symbiosis, key to survival and evolution in an arid world that would be insurmountable alone.

Cast

Choreography:
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Artistic advisor and associate:
Václav Kuneš

Assistant choreographer:
Jason Kittelberger

Music composition:
Yarkin featuring The Sufi Vocal Masters, Al Adhan, Al Qantarah, Fadia Tomb El-Hage, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Felix Buxton

Costumes:
Jan-Jan Van Essche

Set design:
Adam Carree, Willy Cessa

Light design:
Willy Cessa

Music & sound design:
Felix Buxton

Dancers:
Francesca Maria Amante, Sabine Groenendijk, Mabrouk Gouicem, Nemo Oeghoede, Vojtěch Rak, Antonin Rioche, Filip Staněk, Nicola Leahey

Production assistant:
Eline Lenaerts, Petra Kašparová, Marta Lajnerová

Premiere:
4. 6. 2017, Jatka78, within the festival TANEC PRAHA

Reruns

There are no planned performances. 

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The project is co-produced by 420PEOPLE, Eastman, TANEC PRAHA festival and Jatka78, with support of the Foundation BNP Paribas, the City of Prague, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the State Fund for Culture, the Flemish Representation in the Czech Republic and the National Theatre in Prague.

Special thanks to the Satyagraha dancers of Eastman/Theater Basel & Karthika Naïr. Eastman is supported by the Flemish Government and the BNP Paribas Foundation and is resident at deSingel International Art Campus (Antwerp). 

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