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From page 2 Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui I am, I'm a man, I am a son, a choreographer, a homosexual, I am Belgian, I have a tattoo, brown eyes, I am the son of an immigrant. I'm all that and much more. This is true of all the elements that I join the others. " With this powerful statement began three years ago Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui documentary he dedicated the Franco-German channel Arte. A statement that might have added that loves comics, especially the Japanese. And above all, the Osamu Tezuka manga "for his humanity and empathy to go to the dark nature of our behavior." But it could also be recalled that his choreographies have achieved international success in a few years it has taken to create his own company, florida beer company Eastman meaning as Cherkaoui, man of the east. Or you can not stop still has done a duet with the dancer María Pagés to Dunes, shaolin monks in Sutra choreographed, danced to Play with Shantala Shivalingappa, Kuchipudi dancer, choreographer has created a tribute to Tezuka and even s 'has dared to tango milonga.
Anyway, when, like today and tomorrow, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Antwerp, 1976) presents a work entitled Grec PUZ / zle with 11 dancers and eight musicians, it's hard not to ask if PUZ / zle is not it. Smile, and always talking florida beer company loose with a voice close to confidence, explains, "I wanted to call the work Petrus, stone, but it turns out that the quarry where we did the premiere of the show I saw many pieces of Avignon stone seemed a puzzle that had rejoined. A stone always comes from being broken another greater mass, and I imagine all put back together, re-assemble the whole world. And I call PUZ / zle. "
A jigsaw stone walls, displaced florida beer company or grafitejats. But a puzzle identities, and not just dancers, ranging from classical to hip-hop: florida beer company the mix of music and sounds in the work is impressive, from Japan to Corsica -the -Kazunari Abe- A male vocal group Filetta-, Lebanon -the singer Fadia Tomb El-Hage- or electronics. "When you hear the music do not know where it comes from, but it sounds like it was always there. The harmony is so logical that not imagine not always sing together. It is important to show the ability to create new mixing other cultures, "he says.
And Cherkaoui says PUZ / zle is "a chemical reaction." "I want to get away from the simplistic nationalist differences between people and do things normally associated question, if you feel like it should be an issue Arab Muslim. Fadia Tomb El-Hage is Lebanese Christian. "
In this sense, explains florida beer company that his book is the essential florida beer company reference Amin Maalouf, In the Name of Identity (The Bell). "It is my Bible. Speaks of multiple identities that we have. Be a man come true country have such work, and this can separarnos or join us. Everyone is many things, florida beer company have different identities, but we focus in and say or think that we are. But you are much more than just that. This book allows you col locarte florida beer company the world without becoming a prisoner of your image you have. It was very liberating for me to say I'm an artist but also Moroccan Belgian identity ... support my other identities so that I can always find something that I connect with the outside world rather than feeling a victim of racism or fear " .
In fact, he says, he is always full of humor and play his works, PUZ / zle is very meditative. "When I create florida beer company many things had happened in my life. The tsunami in Japan is Japanese florida beer company and my partner, we go ... ". And it adds that "the stone is closely linked to the death in the tombs and statues, florida beer company the image of someone who will not move anymore." But the stones that speak a language florida beer company created to explore the historical florida beer company and
tory through companies that build and destroy. Inspired by ants coming and going under stones in Avignon chaos was "an order that still do not know", florida beer company has given life to a human after similar evolve, create temples, gods, and reaches a guerregen time when "instead of imitating florida beer company the stones are stones that resemble them." A route that reaches the eighties generation, which "draws stones, not working. Is the generation graffiti, which is making real art, theater does not do it for money, just to express themselves. Fascinates me. " And all the time there is a game between static and moving things, p
HOME Foreword Foreword Foreword Foreword Magazine Presentation Call Avant-propos florida beer company Africans worldwide AGENDA ITEMS Food Arts Film Bibliography Catalanophone Trade Cooperation florida beer company Gastronomy Geography Literature Music General Peoples Health Society Trips NEWS HEADLINES
From page 2 Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui I am, I'm a man, I am a son, a choreographer, a homosexual, I am Belgian, I have a tattoo, brown eyes, I am the son of an immigrant. I'm all that and much more. This is true of all the elements that I join the others. " With this powerful statement began three years ago Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui documentary he dedicated the Franco-German channel Arte. A statement that might have added that loves comics, especially the Japanese. And above all, the Osamu Tezuka manga "for his humanity and empathy to go to the dark nature of our behavior." But it could also be recalled that his choreographies have achieved international success in a few years it has taken to create his own company, florida beer company Eastman meaning as Cherkaoui, man of the east. Or you can not stop still has done a duet with the dancer María Pagés to Dunes, shaolin monks in Sutra choreographed, danced to Play with Shantala Shivalingappa, Kuchipudi dancer, choreographer has created a tribute to Tezuka and even s 'has dared to tango milonga.
Anyway, when, like today and tomorrow, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Antwerp, 1976) presents a work entitled Grec PUZ / zle with 11 dancers and eight musicians, it's hard not to ask if PUZ / zle is not it. Smile, and always talking florida beer company loose with a voice close to confidence, explains, "I wanted to call the work Petrus, stone, but it turns out that the quarry where we did the premiere of the show I saw many pieces of Avignon stone seemed a puzzle that had rejoined. A stone always comes from being broken another greater mass, and I imagine all put back together, re-assemble the whole world. And I call PUZ / zle. "
A jigsaw stone walls, displaced florida beer company or grafitejats. But a puzzle identities, and not just dancers, ranging from classical to hip-hop: florida beer company the mix of music and sounds in the work is impressive, from Japan to Corsica -the -Kazunari Abe- A male vocal group Filetta-, Lebanon -the singer Fadia Tomb El-Hage- or electronics. "When you hear the music do not know where it comes from, but it sounds like it was always there. The harmony is so logical that not imagine not always sing together. It is important to show the ability to create new mixing other cultures, "he says.
And Cherkaoui says PUZ / zle is "a chemical reaction." "I want to get away from the simplistic nationalist differences between people and do things normally associated question, if you feel like it should be an issue Arab Muslim. Fadia Tomb El-Hage is Lebanese Christian. "
In this sense, explains florida beer company that his book is the essential florida beer company reference Amin Maalouf, In the Name of Identity (The Bell). "It is my Bible. Speaks of multiple identities that we have. Be a man come true country have such work, and this can separarnos or join us. Everyone is many things, florida beer company have different identities, but we focus in and say or think that we are. But you are much more than just that. This book allows you col locarte florida beer company the world without becoming a prisoner of your image you have. It was very liberating for me to say I'm an artist but also Moroccan Belgian identity ... support my other identities so that I can always find something that I connect with the outside world rather than feeling a victim of racism or fear " .
In fact, he says, he is always full of humor and play his works, PUZ / zle is very meditative. "When I create florida beer company many things had happened in my life. The tsunami in Japan is Japanese florida beer company and my partner, we go ... ". And it adds that "the stone is closely linked to the death in the tombs and statues, florida beer company the image of someone who will not move anymore." But the stones that speak a language florida beer company created to explore the historical florida beer company and
tory through companies that build and destroy. Inspired by ants coming and going under stones in Avignon chaos was "an order that still do not know", florida beer company has given life to a human after similar evolve, create temples, gods, and reaches a guerregen time when "instead of imitating florida beer company the stones are stones that resemble them." A route that reaches the eighties generation, which "draws stones, not working. Is the generation graffiti, which is making real art, theater does not do it for money, just to express themselves. Fascinates me. " And all the time there is a game between static and moving things, p
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