Fri. 3rd and Sat. 4th of May 2024
Grande Halle
starting from €8
duration: 1h30
Metro line 5
Tramway line 3b
Dance, contemporary Dance, contemporary, For all
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Ballet Royal de Flandre
Faun & Memento Mori
Presentation
This two-piece programme is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's fluid choreography in two ways, performed here by the Royal Flemish Ballet.
The first is freely adapted from the famous Afternoon of a Faun, created by Nijinski in 1912 to Debussy's music. Cherkaoui's fauna and nymph, both childish and archaic, wild and instinctive, are immersed here in a recomposed music that surreptitiously takes us from one style to another, from one culture to another, from one century to another.
Memento Mori ("Remember that you're going to die") is the last part of a trilogy created for the Ballets de Monte Carlo. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui enjoins us to look at death with a new eye every day, so that we do not allow ourselves to be locked in a passive fatality but on the contrary re-appropriate our reality every day.
Practical information
Getting here
Porte de Pantin
Porte de la Villette - Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
139, 150, 152 : Porte de la Villette
Before every show the restaurant la Petite Halle is open.
Gallery
Production credits
Visuel Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui © Alice Blangero
Danseurs (Faun) Nicola Wills, Philipe Lens
Memento Mori : Coproduction les ballets de Monte-Carlo, Ballet Royal de Flandre
With Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse
from May 23rd to June 6th 2024
Grande Halle
starting from €20
duration: 1h30
Premiere
Original work
Metro line 5
Tramway line 3b
Rachid Ouramdane / Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève Outsider
With Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse
from June 21st to 24th 2024
Grande Halle
starting from €20
duration: 1h
Original work
Metro line 5
Tramway line 3b
