EVENT
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui w/
A Filetta
APOCRIFU
- Venue: Abbey Theatre
- Dates: Saturday 9/ Sunday 10 May
- Nationality: Belgium
- Time: 7.30pm
- Duration: 75 Mins
- Tickets: €30 (Full price) / €22 (Concession)
"A spellbinding performance" - The Bulletin
Highly esteemed on the European dance stage, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui opens this year’s Dublin Dance Festival with his haunting and beautiful work, Apocrifu. Weaving together the contrasting styles of its three dancers and the soaring polyphonic choral music of A Filetta, Apocrifu is a powerful and thought provoking work that grapples with the idea of the supremacy of written language over the body.
Apocrifu is at times earthbound and languid, at others delicate and aerial. Through painful struggle and humorous absurdity, the dancers question the authority of written traditions. Cherkaoui investigates the ubiquity of the written word to open up a dialogue with forgotten tales and sacred texts deemed by many to be absolute.
A former dancer with Les Ballets C de la B, Cherkaoui was awarded the Promising Choreographer Award at the Nijinski Awards in Monte Carlo in 2002 and received BalletTanz’s Outstanding Choreographer of the Year Award in 2008. His work has been commissioned by the Royal Danish Ballet and the Cullberg Ballet. Recent collaborations include Zero Degrees with Akram Khan (UK) and the Monks from the Shaolin Temple and sculptor Antony Gormley for the creation of Sutra. Cherkaoui is currently Associate Artist at both Het Toneelhuis in Belgium and Sadler’s Wells in London.
Choreographer: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Dancers: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Dimitri Jourde and Yasuyuki Shuto
Music: A Filetta
Photo Credit: Herman Sorgeloos
Apocrifu is a co-production of La Monnaie/De Munt, Belgium and Festival de Danse de Cannes
