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In the work of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui duets play an important part. Together with Akram Khan he danced zero degrees, with María Pagés Dunas and with Shantala Shivalingappa Play. But he also creates exciting duets for his dancers. 4D is a suite of four of his best recent duets. One of them he created in close collaboration with French-Belgian choreographer Damien Jalet. The four duets demonstrate the versatility and innovative character of Cherkaoui's work, who is at this moment considered one of the most inspirational contemporary choreographers in the world.

The four duets were born in very diverse settings. 

Matter in its initial avatar was a pivotal sequence in the 2008 work Origine: it is an ode to the omnipresence of objects around us, and their role as buffers to our extreme solitude in today's world.

Pure was originally made as part of a site-specific festival on the beaches of Oostende - this lyrical, virtuosic duet also featured in TeZukA, Cherkaoui's 2011 homage to Osamu Tezuka, founding father of modern manga.

Sin grew out of double Laurence Olivier Award-winning Babel(words), which was co-choreographed by Damien Jalet in 2010 for Eastman and La Monnaie and designed by visual artist Antony Gormley.

Faun was originally commissioned by Sadler’s Wells as part of its centennial offering to the great impresario, Sergei Diaghilev, the 2009 mixed bill ‘In the spirit of Diaghilev’. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui has been nominated for Best Modern Choreography for Faun at the National Dance Awards in 2010.

These four duets were revised, nurtured to realize their potential as freestanding works and brought together to form a full-fledged program.

To these four duets the music video Valtari was added. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui created the video together with director Christian Larson for the title track of Icelandic rockband Sigur Rós’s cd.

Premiere: 12 March 2013, Toneelhuis

Choreography
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet
Assistant choreographer
Nienke Reehorst
Music composition
Patrizia Bovi, Gabriele Miracle, Mahabub Khan, Sattar Khan, Jacopo da Bologna, Claude Debussy, Nitin Sawhney
Additional / traditional music
Olga Wojciechowska, Woojae Park, Tsubasa Hori
Dance
Navala 'Niku' Chaudhari, Damien Fournier, Kazutomi 'Tsuki' Kozuki, James O’Hara, Daisy Phillips, Guro Nagelhus Schia, Vebjørn Sundby
Live music
Patrizia Bovi, Tsubasa Hori, Mahabub Khan, Sattar Khan, Gabriele Miracle, Olga Wojciechowska
Second cast
Nemo Oeghoede, Olivia Ancona, Philipe Lens, Jon Filip Fahlstrøm, Jennifer White, Nicola Leahey, Oliver Tida Tida
Sound design
Jens Drieghe
Light design
Adam Carrée
Video design
Paul Van Caudenberg
Costume design
Frédérick Denis, Alexandra Gilbert, Sasa Kovacevic, Isabelle Lhoas, Hussein Chalayan, Elisabeth Kinn Svensson
Wardrobe
Nadine Scheuer
Technical director
Patrick ‘Sharp’ Vanderhaegen
Technical coordinator
Tom Van Aken
Technician
Mathias Batsleer, Ken Hioco, Kim Rens, Jonas Stessel
Production / tour manager
Meriem Fadil El Alaouiova
Producer
Eastman
Co-producer
Het Toneelhuis (Antwerp), Théâtre du Beauvaisis, Theater im Pfalzbau (Ludwigshafen), deSingel International Arts Campus (Antwerp)
Last modified: 10 June 2021
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