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We may never have spent this much time with our own selves. We certainly have not been this earth-bound, this rooted to our immediate environments, for decades.

In 2013, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui highlighted various shades of the couple as dyad, as an essential unit of life, through 4D, his suite of duets. Today, with 3S, he turns his gaze on the lone self: solitary yet inevitably bound to the world, to the specificities and universalities of the habitats that nurture, endanger, and define each of us. 3S marks a reunion with three dancers: Nicola Leahey, Kazutomi “Tsuki” Kozuki – longstanding associates – and Jean Michel Sinisterra Munoz, formerly of the GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, where he had been a part of Icon. 

All three draw invisible lines between the lands they were born in — Australia, Japan and Colombia respectively – thus forming a giant triangle across the globe, one whose vertices may be far-flung, but whose medians touch us all. So it is with the themes evoked in each solo. Nicola Leahey channels the late poet Alice Eather’s powerful words about the wanton abuse of ancient forests by multinational corporations, a legacy of the colonial oppression of Aborigines. Kazutomi Kozuki evokes both individual and collective trauma over nuclear disaster, the damage it wreaks on bodies and land, the visible and invisible wounds that do not heal. Jean Michel Sinisterra Munoz finds reflections of Colombia’s guerrilla warfare – with its deadly capacity to draw in the very young as combatants – in the juggernaut of Syria’s civil war. 

Songstresses Ghalia Benali, Patrizia Bovi and Tsubasa Hori join the dancers to give voice to and, conversely, pierce the depth of human solitude and sorrow. Filmmaker Sabine Groenewegen’s images act as portals that transmit elements from the outer world to the stage, or could it be other way around? 

Distances collapse and strangers can become kin, for, as Cherkaoui says, echoing Warsan Shire, “When the planet is in pain, we are in pain.”


Karthika Naïr

 

Premiere: 26 September 2020, Teatro Carignano - Turin (IT)

Choreography & direction
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Moving image
Sabine Groenewegen
Music composition
Ghalia Benali, Patrizia Bovi, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Karsten Fundal, Tsubasa Hori
Sound design moving image
Sabine Groenewegen
Dance
Kazutomi 'Tsuki' Kozuki, Nicola Leahey, Jean Michel Sinisterra Munoz
Live music
Ghalia Benali, Patrizia Bovi, Tsubasa Hori, Kazutomi 'Tsuki' Kozuki
Second cast
Christina Guieb, Shogo Yoshii
Live footage
Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern
Dramaturgy
Timmy De Laet
Words
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Arwa Damon (CNN), Alice Eather
Light design
Krispijn Schuyesmans
Costumes
Veerle Van den Wouwer
Rehearsal director
Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern
Stage manager
Patrick ‘Sharp’ Vanderhaegen
Technical coordinator
Nils Geernaert
Technician
Wouter de Groot, Maxime Guislain, Elric Reinartz, Krispijn Schuyesmans, Chloë Köpping
Production / tour manager
Alessandra Oliveira
Producer
Eastman
Commissioned by
TorinoDanza Festival, Teatro Stabile di Torino-Teatro Nazionale
Copyright video
© GREENPEACE, © SONUMA-RTBF archive images
Thanks to
Karthika Naïr, Katrina Channells, Anna Sato, Michael Eather, Noni Eather, Grace Eather, Darius Devas (Being Films), Rintaro Murayama (Iwakubi Onidaiko), Akihide Oishi (Iwakubi Onidaiko)
With the support of
BNP Paribas Foundation, Flemish authorities, The Belgian Federal Government's Tax Shelter programme
Last modified: 17 January 2023
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