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Premiere

2002/07/15 — Avignon

Season

2002-2003

In 2002 Les Ballets C. de la B. dancer and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui was invited by Le vif du Sujet, a project by the author's rights organisation SACD during the Festival d'Avignon.  In the frame of this project a dancer is invited to create a 30-minute performance with a choreographer of their choice. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui chose to work with Wim Vandekeybus. it became performance in which the very specific movement languages of both choreographers meet and influence each other. Departure point was The Circular Valley, a short story by Paul Bowles about the Atlájala, a ghost living in a abandonned monastery capable of taking on different forms. Accompanied on stage by a talking donkey, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui squirmed over the dance floor, moving like a snake onto a pillar and sitting motionless on top of this high perch for minutes. Originally an open-air performance, it was later reworked as a 50-minute full-evening performance, including film images shot by Wim Vandekeybus. For the sound concept Vandekeybus and Cherkaoui chose to work with Spanish composer Charo Calvo.

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