Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Nomad

The internationally acclaimed and award-winning choreo- grapher Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui – director of the ballet company at the Grand Théâtre de Genève since 2022 – is finally returning to the big Kampnagel stage after seven years: after “Qutb” and “Mosaic”, NOMAD is the third piece he has developed to the Middle Eastern-inspired music of Felix Buxton (Basement Jaxx) – a choreography of living and inanimate desert creatures. There is a giant image filling the back of the stage – snakes, lizards and camels dance. The dancing bodies show the agility and adaptability of creatures that thrive in the most extreme con- ditions. Each individual dancer embodies the spirit of together- ness and friendship – key to survival in an inhospitable world that would be uninhabitable without mutual support.