Orbo Novo: choreographer Sidi Larbi Charkaoui at the NAC.
Choreographer Sidi Larbi Charkaoui has become the undisputed darling of the international dance circuit with his contemporary movements based on a highly dramatic and explosive forms of physical contortion that are extremely original. Of Moroccan and Flemish origin, he grew up in Belgium and studied with Anna Maria de Teersmaker all the while feeding off Hip hop, Modern jazz and a desire to express through dance the multicultural flow of human beings that is in the process of transforming Europe. He has danced with les Ballet contemporains de la Belgique and has gone on to work as a choreographer for the Saddler’s Wells Ballet; He has also choreographed for the Ballet de Monte Carlo, the Royal Danish Ballet. Among his many works he created a startling study of corporeal defiance with 15 Shaolin Monks that was performed at the Avignon Festival before a stunned audience. Later we saw it at the National Arts Centre in the 2008-09 Season.