★★✰✰✰ Cherkaoui looks older than his years, so much so that his relationship in Play with Shivalingappa risks being unsettling. As dancers, they are no longer equals, as they must have been in 2008.
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★★★✰✰ Yo Carmen was originally billed as a radical reimagining of Bizet’s opera and that’s not exactly the case. Don’t go along to this thinking that you will see any representation of the story with gypsies and bullfighters, or any male characters dancing.
Tango coach and dancer Nelida Rodriguez de Aure has been helping Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui with his show, "m¡longa". About to tour the UK it sees a unique coming together of tango and contemporary dancers. Diane Parkes talks to Nelida about the background and what makes tango so very special...
While other Cherkaoui collaborations have generally crossed boundaries to link contemporary movement with the borrowed style, in Genesis there appears to be a multiplicity of influences.
IBERIAN SUITE: global arts remix Kennedy Center Festival – details www.kennedy-center.org Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras Voces, Suite Flamenca 9 March 2015 www.sarabaras.com Born in the Gypsy community in the impoverished Andalusia region of southern Spain more as self-expression than dance, flamenco has over the centuries become an inherent part of Spanish culture and the country’s most...
What a strange world flamenco dancer Rocío Molina conjures up for us in her latest show...
It’s a very satisfying package of liquid, sinuous movement delivered by idiosyncratic and characterful performers.
This is not Cherkaoui’s most successfully realised work but his affection and respect for tango shine through, and the dancers are a joy to watch.