Several dancers stand one behind the other in extremely red light. They stand with their knees slightly bent and stretch their arms out to the sides, peeking out behind the dancer in front. The background consists of a dry tundra.
© Filip Van Roe
Several dancers stand one behind the other in extremely red light. They stand with their knees slightly bent and stretch their arms out to the sides, peeking out behind the dancer in front. The background consists of a dry tundra.
© Filip Van Roe

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Nomad

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44/36/24/14 (conc. from 9 Euro, [k]-Karte from 7 Euro)

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Thursday

12/5/24

8:00 PM

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Saturday

12/7/24

8:00 PM

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Sunday

12/8/24

6:00 PM

The internationally acclaimed and award-winning choreo- grapher Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui – director of the ballet company at the Grand Théâtre de Genève since 2022 – is finally returning to the big Kampnagel stage after seven years: after “Qutb” and “Mosaic”, NOMAD is the third piece he has developed to the Middle Eastern-inspired music of Felix Buxton (Basement Jaxx) – a choreography of living and inanimate desert creatures. There is a giant image filling the back of the stage – snakes, lizards and camels dance. The dancing bodies show the agility and adaptability of creatures that thrive in the most extreme con- ditions. Each individual dancer embodies the spirit of together- ness and friendship – key to survival in an inhospitable world that would be uninhabitable without mutual support.

Three men lift a woman in a red top with their hands - her feet higher than her head. She appears to be floating on their hands, her gaze gently to the side, her hands fall relaxed to her sides.
© Filip Van Roe
Two people stand in front of a projection of a dry tundra landscape. Both are bent unnaturally. The one in front stands on all fours with his stomach up and looks out from between his shoulders. The other crosses his arms behind his back.
© Filip Van Roe
Six people stand one behind the other in front of a dry tundra landscape. They catch each other as they fall backwards.
© Filip Van Roe
Seven people lie on their backs on a dark stage floor and raise their legs outstretched upwards. They swing their legs around, supporting themselves with their arms on the floor.
© Filip Van Roe
Four people with naked upper bodies stand with their backs to the camera in front of a dry, red tundra landscape with a sunset.
© Filip Van Roe
Several dancers stand one behind the other in extremely red light. They stand with their knees slightly bent and stretch their arms out to the sides, peeking out behind the dancer in front. The background consists of a dry tundra.
© Filip Van Roe
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Choreography & directed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Music composition Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Felix Buxton, Kaspy N’dia Additional music Yarkin Türk Ritm Grubu, Gökhan Filizman, Ahmet Şahin, Mehmet Kemiksiz, Macadi Nahhas, Al Qantarah, Oli Savill (Percussion), Mohammed El Arabi-Serghini, traditional songs from the Amami islands in Japan Sound design Felix Buxton Dance Mabrouk Gouicem, Mohamed Toukabri, Pol Van den Broek, Kazutomi ‘Tsuki’ Kozuki, Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Nassim Baddag, Oliver Tida Tida, Jonas Vandekerckhove, Christina Guieb, Zoe Hollinshead Live music Shak Shakito Costumes Jan-Jan Van Essche Set design Willy Cessa, Adam Carrée Light design Willy Cessa, Sam Mary Video design Paul Van Caudenberg Assistant choreographer Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Oscar Ramos Rehearsal director Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern Artistic advisor and associate Václav Kuneš Vocal coach Anna Sato Music engineered by Duncan F. Brown Implementation set Martin Baarda Technicians Elric Reinartz (sound), Geoffrey Oelbrandt (Artfex) (lights & stage), Simon Foubert (Artfex) (video), Amber Van Rooijen (stage assistant) Wardrobe Eline Willemarck Logistics Nils Geernaert Artistic production / tour manager Alessandra Oliveira Produced by Eastman Co-commissioned by 420PEOPLE, Cultuurcentrum Berchem Thanks to Francesca Maria Amante, Sabine Groenendijk, Vojtěch Rak, Antonin Rioche, Filip Staněk, Nicola Leahey, Jason Kittelberger, Satyagraha dancers of Eastman/Theater Basel, Karthika Naïr, Carly Heathcote With the support of the BNP Paribas Foundation, the Flemish Government and the Belgian Federal Government’s Tax Shelter programme.

Supported by Mara und Holger Cassens Stiftung and by the Alliance of International Production Houses and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.