The Choreographer in the Purgatorio: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - Part I
This interview with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui was made on the 2nd of May at the Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul, Turkey. Redaction: Ayşe Draz Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Photo: Koen Broos) First of all congratulations; recently you became the artistic director of the Royal Ballet Flanders. I’ll start in September. So in January I said yes to the request. I have been thinking about it for six months; because they have been looking for a new director, because it’s my home town and I felt I know some of the dancers also, and I felt that this was a good moment in my life to try in engage in this kind of a responsibility. I think it is a rare example that a choreographer who has his own company, directs a national company at the same time. There are other people; Benjamin Millipied and also Wayne McGregor from Random Dance; he works very often with the Royal Ballet. So, I think it is two different, let’s say, entities that can manifest different parts of what ...