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Invited by artistic director of 420PEOPLE, Václav Kuneš, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui presented a work-in-progress at the Czech dance festival Tanec Praha in 2017, a performance titled Nomad - with dancers of Eastman (Nemo Oeghoede, Antonin Rioche, Nicola Leahey and Mabrouk Gouicem) and 420PEOPLE (Francesca Maria Amante, Sabine Groenendijk, Vojtěch Rak and Filip Staněk). From this artistic research originated a new creation in 2019, in which Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Eastman further developed Nomad into a full-length performance. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui pieces together a mosaic drawn from the animate and inanimate elements of the desert. Meanwhile, from the dance floor, we get glimpses of the fluidity and adaptability of creatures that thrive in the harshest of conditions; the beautiful transience of sand dunes and winds that change direction and shape and speed in the twinkling of an eye; the intense physical and emotional thirst, the yearning for water and safety, for consolation that guide both animal actions and the human quest for spirituality. And above all, the spirit of togetherness, of friendship and symbiosis, key to survival and evolution in an arid world that would be insurmountable alone.

After Qutb, Mosaic and Stoic, Nomad is the fourth piece with music by Basement Jaxx artist Felix Buxton, based on the Middle-East. Also, it is the fourth collaboration with fashion designer Jan-Jan Van Essche, after Icon, Satyagraha and Memento Mori. His costumes for Nomad are inspired by the richness of fabrics that inhabitants of the desert wear to protect themselves from the heat. And just like in Faun, there’s a giant image filling the back of the stage: Not a forest this time, but a desert. This desolate landscape is a metaphor for ultimate freedom, but also for the impossibility to survive. We even get the feeling that this landscape is not in our own trusted world, especially when the animated backdrop shows the earth floating above the horizon like a moon. The dancing nomads seem to be isolated in this environment, like the world today sometimes seems like a desert in the eyes of minority groups, a dangerous place to be in.

Premiere: 04 June 2017, Jatka78 - Prague (CZ)

Choreography
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Music composition
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Felix Buxton, Kaspy N'dia
Additional music
Fahrettin Yarkin, Sufi Vocal Masters, Al Adhan, Al Qantarah, Fadia Tomb El-Hage, Oli Savill, traditional songs from the Amami islands in Japan
Sound design
Felix Buxton
Dance
Pol Van den Broek, Nemo Oeghoede, Oscar Ramos, Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Verdiano Cassone, Stephanie Amurao, Nick Coutsier, Mohamed Toukabri, Kazutomi 'Tsuki' Kozuki, Wang Qing, Mabrouk Gouicem
Live music
Kaspy N'dia
Second cast
Nicola Leahey, Ema Yuasa, Jonas Garrido Verwerft, Astrid Sweeney, Anna Senognoeva, Helena Olmedo Duynslaeger, Nassim Baddag, Jonas Vandekerckhove, Marina Kushchova, Dayan Akhmedgaliev, Oliver Tida Tida
Costume design
Jan-Jan Van Essche
Set design
Willy Cessa, Adam Carrée
Light design
Willy Cessa, Sam Mary
Video design
Paul Van Caudenberg
Rehearsal director/assistant choreographer
Oscar Ramos, Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern
Rehearsal director
Kazutomi 'Tsuki' Kozuki
Artistic advice
Václav Kuneš
Vocal coach
Anna Sato
Music engineered by
Duncan F. Brown
Technical director
Patrick ‘Sharp’ Vanderhaegen
Technical coordinator
Nils Geernaert
Wardrobe
Renata Epifanio, Saar Swinters, Caroline Wittemans
Implementation set
Martin Baarda
Technician
Elric Reinartz, Willy Cessa, Sam Mary, Krispijn Schuyesmans, Janneke Hertoghs, Maxime Guislain, Michael Pellis, Emmanuel Larue, Chloë Köpping
Production / tour manager
Eline Lenaerts, Arnout André de la Porte, Alessandra Oliveira
Producer
Eastman
Co-producer
420PEOPLE, Cultuurcentrum Berchem
Thanks to
Vojtěch Rak, Nicola Leahey, Filip Staněk, Sabine Groenendijk, Francesca Maria Amante, Antonin Rioche, Jason Kittelberger, Karthika Naïr, Dancers of Satyagraha (Eastman/Theater Basel), Carly Heathcote
With the support of
BNP Paribas Foundation, Flemish authorities, The Belgian Federal Government's Tax Shelter programme
Last modified: 14 January 2023
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