FOI

In 2003, Sidi Larbi created his first major choreography with les ballets C. de la B.
Foi had toured the world successfully for 2 years.
It is now returning to the stage by popular demand.

The piece brings together 18 performers, singers, dancers and musicians in a traditional-style creation of a medieval/contemporary opera. In collaboration with the ensemble Capilla Flamenca and Christine Leboutte, the choreography stages pieces of scholarly music from the fourteenth century, written scores and songs from the oral tradition. 

The connection with faith and myth is easy to make: what did you learn from your parents, what have you heard people tell, what have you read? What do you still believe? Why do you still believe? What do you want to survive or be passed down? Are you convinced of this?
It is on these questions that Foi is constructed.

DIRECTION & CHOREOGRAPHY SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI BY CHRISTINE LEBOUTTE, JOANNA DUDLEY, ALEXANDRA GILBERT, ULRIKA KINN SVENSSON, ERNA ÓMARSDÓTTIR, LAURA NEYSKENS, DARRYL E. WOODS, DAMIEN JALET, NAM JIN KIM, NICOLAS VLADYSLAV, MARC WAGEMANS MUSIC CAPILLA FLAMENCA DRAMATURGY ISNELLE DA SILVEIRA COACHING NIENKE REEHORST COSTUMES ISABELLE LHOAS SET DESIGN RUFUS DIDWISZUS LIGHT DESIGN JEROEN WUYTS DISTRIBUTION FRANS BROOD PRODUCTIONS

PRODUCTION les ballets C de la B | UITVOEREND PRODUCENT Toneelhuis, Eastman vzw

CO-PRODUCTION Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin (DE), Théâtre de la Ville Paris (FR), Monaco Dance Forum (MC), Holland Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht & Springdance | Works Utrecht (NL), kunstencentrum Vooruit, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent, South Bank Centre London (UK), tanzquartier Wien (AT), Pact Zollverein Essen|Choreographisches Zentrum nrw (de)

DURATION 90 min