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Invited by the Festival of Avignon and coproduced by the late Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui created Tempus Fugit as a response to the darkness of Foi. Focusing this time on migration of birds and people, on the natural flow of time and gravity, this piece had a very different tone and pace; it was much lighter and more innocent, like a child's drawing. Set in a forest of climbable poles suggesting trees as much as a metro station or revolving doors, a bunch of childlike similarly clothed students grow up quickly to become very different cultural Technicolor icons of migration. Each character is a distinct immigrant to the other, they interact with each other through rotation and gravity, humor and love. Musical partner Weshm brings mediterranean musical traditions to life in a contemporary way. Circus artist Ali Ben Lotfi Thabet brings in the technique of Chinese pole climbing. Tribal dances mix with folklore, Bollywood fantasies come to life and tango surfaces (an eternal kiss shared by Lisi Estaràs and Cherkaoui himself); the colorful cast has no limits and dares to play the game of the overdose with humor and harmony.

Premiere: 19 July 2004, Festival d'Avignon - Avignon (FR)

Director
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Choreography
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Music composition
Weshm, Najib Cherradi
Set design
Wim Van de Capelle, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Dance
Ali Ben Lotfi Thabet, Marc Wagemans, Nicolas Vladyslav, Serge-Aimé Coulibaly, Nam Jin Kim, Lisi Estaras, Damien Jalet, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Isnelle Da Silveira, Christine Leboutte
Live music
Coordt Linke, Floris Dercksen, Osama Abdulrassol
Assistant choreographer
Damien Jalet, Darryl E. Woods
Costume design
Isabelle Lhoas, Frédérick Denis, Lorraine Frennet
Light design
Carlo Bourguignon, Krispijn Schuyesmans
Video design
Olivier Spiro, Anaïs Spiro
Production / technical manager
Jan Mergaert, Serge Vandenhove, Iris Raspoet, Griet Van Laer
Sound design
Caroline Wagner
Producer
Les Ballets C. de la B.
Co-producer
Festival d’Avignon, Tanztheater Wuppertal, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Ghent)
Photography
Kurt Van der Elst
Last modified: 07 November 2012
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