Sidi larbi cherkaoui – biography — nsproductions

Since then he has made over 50 full-fledged choreographic pieces and picked up a slew of awards, including two Olivier Awards, three Ballet Tanz awards for best choreographer , , and the Kairos Prize for his artistic vision and his quest for intercultural dialogue. He has worked with a variety of theatres, opera houses and ballet companies.

From — Cherkaoui was based in Antwerp as artist in residence at Toneelhuis, which produced Myth and Origine This award-winning collaboration with artist Antony Gormley and the Shaolin monks continues to tour the world to great critical acclaim.

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's debut as a choreographer was in with Andrew Wale's contemporary musical, Anonymous Society.

Spring saw him reunited with choreographer Damien Jalet and Antony Gormley to make Babel words which won an Olivier. That year he also collaborated with Joe Wright on his film Anna Karenina , for which Cherkaoui helmed the choreography. In , 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, bringing the beloved manga character Astro Boy to life on stage, and was movement director for Lyndsey Turner's Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch at the Barbican Centre in London.

He also made a trio Harbor Me commissioned by the L. Dance Project, and choreographed a new Firebird for Stuttgart Ballet. In the same year, Cherkaoui created a new production Fractus V for his company Eastman, in which he also performs. Since , Cherkaoui assumed the role of artistic director at the Royal Ballet of Flanders, where he has created Fall , Exhibition and Requiem For more info visit: east-man.

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