Sadler's Wells Theatre - Guy Cools with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

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Guy Cools with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - body:language series

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is one of Europe's most successful and inventive choreographers. Well-known for blurring the division between dance and other forms of performance, his work has attracted a wealth of critical and popular acclaim.

Recent highlights at Sadler’s Wells have included his hit collaboration with Akram Khan, zero degrees, and the more recent Sutra, a unique dancework in collaboration with Turner Prize-winning artist Antony Gormley, inspired by and performed alongside Buddhist Shaolin monks.

"The starting point for my talk with Larbi is the book 'Myth and the body', a dialogue between Joseph Campbell, eminent scholar in mythology and Stanley Keleman, specialist in somatic studies. Their main idea that all myths are about the body - its birth, its transformations and its death - is applied to Larbi's creative process and research."
GUY COOLS

This special event is an opportunity to see Sidi Larbi in discussion with Guy Cools, an international curator, writer, and dramaturg who has worked on several productions well known to Sadler's Wells audiences including zero degrees and Sacred Monsters. He is currently teaching, writing, lecturing and publishing in Europe and Canada.