Elements Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui with Damien Jalet and Marina Abramovic

Mar 1, 2025

1h 32m

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Overview

Noetic, Faun and Boléro: Three elements, three visions, three journeys through dance. Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's show offers a profound reflection on our intimate connection with the world around us. From putting mathematics in movement to Ravel's Boléro as a dance of death, Cherkaoui transcends the boundaries of the stage to offer us a unique philosophical perception of the world.

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Cast

Ballet du Grand Théâtre

Orchestre de la Suisse romande

A slow-motion study by Norman McLaren of the pas-de-deux adagio, one of the most exacting and difficult dances of classical ballet. A ballet originally choreographed by the Russian ballet master Asaf Messerer is performed for this film by the internationally known Canadian pair, David and Anna Marie Holmes, to the music of Albinoni’s Adagio. A film to heighten the aesthetic appreciation of classical ballet and to afford observation of the technique and mechanics of the adagio movements.

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Café Müller

May 20, 1985

Pina Bausch created and performed Café Müller for her dance company Tanztheater Wuppertal. The dance was inspired by and based on her childhood memories of watching her father work at his café in Germany during and immediately following World War II. In this silent style featurette, Bausch shows a restaurant after closing, in which the ghosts of the departed customers stumble blindly into walls and onto chairs but fail to find one another.

6.7

Coppelia

Mar 3, 2022

When everyone in town falls under the spell of charismatic cosmetic surgeon Doctor Coppelius, feisty Swan must act to save her sweetheart Franz, before his heart is used to spark life into Coppelia – the ‘perfect’ robot-woman the Doctor has created.

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Campus Sleuth

May 4, 1948

A photographer is murdered just outside a college dance. The body is found by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears, as it's being whisked from one point to another on campus by an ex-con night watchman. However, he isn't the killer, and Freddie, Dodie, Betty and Lee set out to find the culprit who put a big damper on their big event.

7.0

Sink or Swim

Mar 12, 2014

Two friends dealing with the peer pressure in a desolate swimming pool. How far can they go and is their friendship important enough?

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No Palco

Jun 20, 2024

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7.5

Turn: The Street

Mar 31, 2021

A story of a dance crew and their long-suffering wanderings to bring together their dreams, after a long audition process.

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2020 Vision

Nov 23, 2020

A short film written by Hussain Manawer about 2020 and mental health.

5.3

Pop in Q

Dec 23, 2016

The story begins the day before the graduation ceremony. Five middle school girls each are preoccupied with their real everyday lives. These girls meet each other in a fantasy world after being sent there through a sudden occurrence. There, they learn about the impending crisis that this world is facing. The way to avert this crisis is for the five to collaborate and bring their five hearts together as one through dance. However, the five cannot come to love the world, and cannot tell their true feelings to one another, so their hearts are unable to unite. The time limit is fast approaching. Can the dance of the five girls save the world? And will they be able to graduate?

10.0

Dance Kahani

Aug 5, 2016

With her dream of pursuing a professional dance career shattered, Nizzy, an upscale British Pakistani, must now fight the odds to keep it alive in a society she never wanted to be a part of.

10.0

Fainting Flicker

Jul 23, 2016

Two young strangers meet in Naples and begin to flirt and dance in the street.

3.3

Kaunis Veera eli ballaadi Saimaalta

Sep 22, 1950

Tar Steam Princess Armada travels along Lake Saimaa to St. Petersburg and back during the years of Russian rule over Finland. The ship's crew gets tired of their sophisticated coffee maker and replaces her with Roma girl Veera, who has escaped from an arranged marriage. On the way back, mysterious passengers appear on the ship.

6.2

Sensations of 1945

Jun 30, 1944

As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of stealing her husband and then fires a gun at her. After Ginny collapses and is taken to her dressing room, the woman, Julia Westcolt, a friend of Ginny's, dashes backstage, discards her veil, and then congratulates her friend on their successful publicity stunt. When Ginny's press agents, Gus Crane and his son Junior, visit their client backstage, she brags about her feat and chides them for not being more creative in promoting her. Horrified at Ginny's brashness, Junior, a conservative Harvard graduate, chastises her and leaves the room.

6.0

She Stays

May 21, 2024

Throughout a night out in downtown Tijuana, Laura waits for her destiny to arrive.

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Indak

Aug 7, 2019

This song-and-dance musical follows the journey of an island girl with a natural gift for dancing as she navigates through life in the city to follow her dreams and find love along the way.

4.8

Liberty's Secret

Nov 4, 2016

The daughter of a preacher becomes the centerpiece for a conservative political campaign but finds herself falling in love with a woman.

Elements Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui with Damien Jalet and Marina Abramovic

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