BABEL (WORDS)

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From the beginning of his career as choreographer, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui was intrigued by man's search for the divine and by the confusion that the Supreme Being produces in mankind. In collaboration with choreographer Damien Jalet, Cherkaoui views his new work, BABEL (words), as the natural continuation of his previous exploration of the human struggle for salvation. BABEL (words) also provides a counterpoint to the mood of reconciliation and peace that shimmer though his previous works Origine and Sutra. BABEL (words) begins with the following premise: what if Babel had been successful? What if the ambition and the arrogance to reach heaven, symbolized by the people of Sinear and their impossibly high tower, had not struck down, but actually achieved?

CHOREOGRAFIE SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI, DAMIEN JALET VISUEEL CONCEPT & DESIGN ANTONY GORMLEY LICHTADVISEUR ADAM CARRÉE KOSTUUMS ALEXANDRA GILBERT MUZIKAAL ADVISEUR FAHRETTIN YARKIN DRAMATURGIE LOU COPE ASSISTENTIE CHOREOGRAFIE NIENKE REEHORST DANSERS|ACTEURS NAVALA CHAUDARI, FRANCIS DUCHARME, JON FILIP FAHLSTROEM, DAMIEN FOURNIER, BEN FURY, KAZUTOMI KOZUKI, CHRISTINE LEBOUTTE, MOYA MICHAEL, JAMES O'HARA, HELDER SEABRA, ULRIKA KINN SVENSSON, DARRYL E. WOODS MUZIKANTEN PATRIZIA BOVI, MAHABUB KHAN, SATTAR KHAN, GABRIELE MIRACLE, SHOGO YOSHII

PRODUCTION Eastman, De Munt/La Monnaie

CO-PRODUCTION Fondation d'Entreprise Hermès (FR), Le Parc et la Grande Halle de la Villette Parijs (FR), Sadler's Wells Londen (GB), Festival Boulevard Den Bosch (NL), Festspielhaus St. Pölten (AT), Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg (LU), International Dance Festival (CH), Migros Culture Percentage (CH), Fondazione Musica Per Roma (IT), Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele (DE) MET DE STEUN VAN Dash Arts for the Season on Arabic Arts 2010 (GB), Garrick Charitable Trust (GB), Nationale Loterij