BABEL 7.16 Dance by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Modern & Contemporary Dance
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1h 50m
7.16 refers as much to software codes as to verses of a sacred text, at a contemporary date, as to the power of archaic numerology. The piece conjures up the clash of languages and bodies carrying different nationalities, diversity and the difficulty of being in coexistence and confronts the uniqueness of the community. It questions our relationship to change where technology is constantly modifying our empathies and connections.
As the son of a Moroccan father and Flemish mother, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui knows in his bones how deep the divisions of culture can go. His previous works Foi and Myth were both inspired, if ultimately unhinged by, the vastness of that subject. But in Babel, which completes the trilogy, Cherkaoui and his co-choreographer Damien Jalet contain their material within the most fiercely resonant dance theatre of the decade.
The work takes its title and tone from the apocalyptic Bible story in which God punitively divides his people into competing nations and tongues. Long sections work up to a vivid chaos of snarling, multilingual chatter, some of it angry, some funny, and all delivered by an astonishingly multitalented cast of dancers, actors and musicians.
Director: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Damien Jalet (Choreography)
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