Showing posts with label Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Sutra is a big hit in Taiwan

Sutra finally tours to Taiwan

The Sutra team arrive in Kaoshiung. Photo: Sandra Castell-Garcia

Some seven years since Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Sutra was first performed, the show finally made a stop in Taiwan where it was performed to huge acclaim by the audience.

Post show talk after Sutra. Photo: Sandra Castell-Garcia

The staff at Kaohsiung Festival gave the Sutra team a warm welcome and even provided the audience with some Gormley style boxes to play with. 

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is interviewed in front of boxes resembling the ones made by Antony Gormley for Sutra. Photo: Sandra Castell Garcia

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is mobbed by fans posing in front of Gormley style Sutra boxes. Photo: Sandra Castell-Garcia 

The team were also treated to a tour of the new National Arts Centre which is currently under construction.

The Sutra team at the new National Arts Centre, Taiwan. Photo: Sandra Castell-Garcia

Farewell to Taiwan from the Sutra team. Next stop, France...

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

milonga flirts with New York

m¡longa flirts with New York



Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's m¡longa made it's US debut last week at New York City Center as part of the A Bailar festival. It charmed audiences and critics alike with the New York Times calling it an "impassioned production" with "exceptional dancers"

Read the full review here

Monday, 16 February 2015

milonga melts the snow in Canada

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's milonga takes Canada by storm


Photo: Ghislaine Granger

milonga is back on tour, kicking off 2015 with a tour of Canada. Starting at the Grand Theatre in Quebec and then on to Ottawa where the Valentine's Day performances were a big hit.
"Once again, Larbi manages to create a work of both absolute rigour and immense appeal. His troupe of tangueros create more combustible chemistry than in Walter White’s lab" Ottawa Citizen - read the full review

Next stop, Montreal and then it's off to New York where it will be joining Havana Rakatan in the A Bailor festival.

Friday, 20 June 2014

milonga gets great reviews in Sydney

"They've got legs and they know how to use them" Sydney Morning Herald


Sadler's Wells' celebrated tango show m¡longa by choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui enjoyed sell out success at the Sydney Opera House last week. Audiences were thrilled with the show and the critics obviously were too. Here are a selection of fabulous reviews from down under...