Troika (Dance)
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Troika (Dance)
Ihsane Ballet Du Grand Théâtre De Genève & Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Eastman
Presentation
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui was a teenager when his father died. Thirty years later, now a world-renowned choreographer, he searched in vain for his father’s grave in an overcrowded cemetery in Tangier. Today he continues to search for him in this very personal creation, developed in collaboration with the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève and Eastman.
In Arabic, the word ‘Ihsan’ represents an ideal of goodness, kindness and benevolence. In Belgium, however, the word is also associated with a racist and homophobic crime that took place in Liège in 2012: Ihsane, a young homosexual man of Moroccan origin, was beaten to death outside a nightclub. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui identifies with him and honours him through this production, a stage on the quest for inner peace, an attempt to transcend conflict, abandonment and forgetting.
Together with an artistic team that reflects the effervescence and vitality of this region of the world to which he is linked through his ancestors, the choreographer reveals the invisible threads that bind us, despite the contemporary discourse on identity.
This production is part of Troika Dance
Dates & tickets
13, 14, & 15.5.2027
Location
Prices
Start ticket sale 16.6.2026
Running time
1h30 (without interval)
Gallery
Dates
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Thu 13 May 2027
Time20:00
Venue -
Fri 14 May 2027
Time20:00
Venue -
Sat 15 May 2027
Time15:00
Venue -
Sat 15 May 2027
Time20:00
Venue
Cast
Cast
Premiere 13.11.2024, Grand Théâtre de Genève
ChoreographerSIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI Set DesignerAMINE AMHARECH Costume DesignerAMINE BENDRIOUICH Music & Musical DirectionJASSER HAJ JOUSSEF Lighting DesignerFABIANA PICCIOLI Video DesignerMAXIME GUISLAIN DramaturgeEL ARBI EL HARTI Sound DesignerALEXANDRE DAI CASTAING
DanceBALLET DU GRAND THÉÂTRE DE GENÈVE,
EASTMAN SingersFADIA TOMB EL-HAGE,
MOHAMMED EL-ARABI SERGHINI Viola d’amoreJASSER HAJ YOUSSEF OudYASAMIN SHAHHOSSEINI PianoGAËL CADOUX PercussionsGABRIELE MIRACLE BRAGANTINI
ProductionBALLET DU GRAND THÉÂTRE DE GENÈVE Co-productionEASTMAN, THÉÂTRE DU CHÂTELET (Paris), LES THÉÂTRES DE LA VILLE DE LUXEMBOURG, TANZ KÖLN, INTERNATIONAAL THEATER AMSTERDAM, FESTSPIELHAUS ST. PÖLTEN (Österreich), GREC FESTIVAL BARCELONA 2025, CENTRE NATIONAL DES ARTS (Ottawa)
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