AUSTRIAN PREMIERE
FESTSPIELHAUS COPRODUCTION

Dance/Live-Music  A cosmopolitan, bridge-building chameleon: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui has an almost unrivalled ability among contemporary choreographers to bring together a pulsating cosmos of cultures and art forms. Born in multilingual Belgium as the son a Flemish mother and a Moroccan father, he has been driven to explore the question of his own roots from the very beginning. In Vlaemsch (chez moi), together with visual artist Hans Op de Beeck, fashion designer Jan-Jan Van Essche and lutenist Floris de Rycker, he investigates their common background. Each using their own artistic signature, these four contemporary “Flemish masters” probe the deeper levels of their flat country and travel back in time from the present into the past.

CAST

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Concept, direction & choreography, Hans Op de Beeck Scenography, Jan-Jan Van Essche Costume design, Floris De Rycker Musical direction, Tsubasa Hori Creation soundscape & additional music

Ratas Del Viejo Mundo (Carla Nahadi Babelegoto, Eugénie De Mey, Timothy Ferguson & Jan Van Outryve), Christine Leboutte, Kazutomi 'Tsuki' Kozuki, Khalid Koujili El Yakoubi, Tister Ikomo, Tsubasa Hori Live music

Dorotea Saykaly, Helena Olmedo Duynslaeger, Marina Kushchova, Christine Leboutte, Kazutomi ‘Tsuki’ Kozuki, Dayan Akhmedgaliev, Patrick ‘TwoFace’ Williams Seebacher, Nick Coutsier, Pau Aran Gimeno, Jonas Vandekerckhove, Ido Gidron, Tister Ikomo, Darryl E. Woods, Khalid Koujili El Yakoubi Creation & Performance

Hendrik Conscience, Guido Gezelle, Jason Silva, John Berger, jasminesgarden23, Amina Belôrf, Herman Teirlinck and performers Text

Kevin Vivès Rehearsal director & assistant of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Robbie Moore Second rehearsal director, Greet Van Poeck Assistant director & dramaturgy, Timmy De Laet Dramaturgy, Elric Reinartz, Johannes Bellinck Sound design & sound technician, David Stokholm Lighting design, Krispijn Schuyesmans Light technician, Veerle Van den Wouwer Styling and design of the historical costumes, Andrea Kränzlin Costume coordination Jan-Jan Van Essche, Saar Swinters Coordination dressers, Andrea Kränzlin, Alessandra Oliveira Dressers, Gert Van Hyfte Stage manager, Luc Laroy Assistant stage manager & props, Alessandra Oliveira, Lars Boot Assistant production, Karthika Naïr & Gert Van Overloop Producer

An Eastman Production. Coproduction with De Munt/La Monnaie, KVS, Festspielhaus St. Pölten, Théâtre National De Chaillot, Sadler's Wells, Théâtre National De Bretagne, Les Théâtres De La Ville De Luxembourg, Perpodium and Theaterproductiehuis Zeelandia/Zeeland Nazomerfestival. With the support of the Flemish Government and the Belgian Federal Government’s Tax Shelter Programme.