Babel
Organisation: Dash Arts
Time: 18 May 2010 7:30pm - 19 May 2010 7:30pm
Place: Sadler’s Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4TN
Dash Arts presents:
Babel
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet & Antony Gormley
Working in and around Gormley’s 5 giant boxes, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui with collaborator Damien Jalet, will lead Babel’s 17 dancers and musicians in an investigation into his own Arabic roots. Featuring Sufi trance led by Fahrettin Yarkin, Babel will explore how language, both spoken and physical, is the driving force behind all human interaction.
Combining a western vocabulary with those of four ‘zones’ including Beirut, Baghdad, Istanbul and Casablanca, themes of conflict and coexistence emerge that can be traced back to the collapse of civilisations, countries and people.
Co-commissioned by Dash Arts for the Dash Arabic Series, Babel is the third instalment of the Sidi Larbi triptych, beginning with Foi (2003) and Myth (2007), that reflects a profound curiosity in man’s search for the divine.
Tuesday 18 & Wednesday 19 May 2010 | 7.30pm
Sadler’s Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4TN
Tickets: £10 - £25
Click here to book online or call the Ticket Office on 0844 412 4300.
For more information contact Dash Arts on:
T: 020 7377 6606
E: info@dasharts.org.uk
W: www.dasharts.org.uk
Wider Programme:
Pre-show live music with Yazid Fentazi
Tuesday 18 & Wednesday 19 May | 6-7pm | Free
Dash Café, Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells
Babel: Free talk with Dr. Irving Finkel
Tuesday 18 May | 5.15-6pm | Free
Dash Café, Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells
Lunch-time talk with Damien Jalet
Wednesday 19 May | 1.15-2pm | Free
Dash Café, Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells
Post-show talk with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Damien Jalet
Wednesday 19 May | Free
Dash Café, Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells
Reviews:
Reviews from the premiere in Brussels:
"An avalanche of surprising images, full of humour, imagination and poetry… a remarkable show" LE SOIR, BRUSSELS (29 April 2010)
"Babel is not only the most innovative dance piece of the year; its language of movement is as new as Pina Bausch’s was in the seventies. It is also one of the strongest works of the year" TANZNETZ.DE (April 2010)
"If there is a God, he’s definitely created Cherkaoui and Jalet to be his messengers. The trilogy Foi – Myth – Babel is of heavenly beauty" CJP (April 2010)