In-Between Dance Cultures. on the Migratory Artistic
Subtitle: Identity of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoiu and Akram Khan
Publisher: Valiz
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9789492095114
Subjects: Dance; Choreographers
Description: Belgian-Moroccan Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and British-Bengali Akram Khan are two of today's most prolific choreographers. Given their respective backgrounds and the practices they pursue, their artistic universes are largely built around their identity in-between dance cultures. Guy Cools who accompanied both, situates their work within the larger critical debate on the (post)modern and (post- )migrant identity. Cools details some of their iconic choreographic pieces. In-Between Dance Cultures offers a complementary view on questions of cultural identity taking the contemporary dancer's somatic awareness and knowledge of the body as its starting point.