3S

With 3S Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui turns his gaze on the lone self: solitary yet inevitably bound to the world, to the specificities and universalities of the habitats that nurture, endanger, and define each of us. 3S marks a reunion with three dancers - Nicola Leahey, Kazutomi “Tsuki” Kozuki and Jean Michel Sinisterra Munoz - in a performance composed of three solos. All three draw invisible lines between the lands they were born in — Australia, Japan and Colombia respectively – thus forming a giant triangle across the globe, whose medians touch us all.

So it is with the themes evoked in each solo. Nicola Leahey channels the late poet Alice Eather’s powerful words about the wanton abuse of ancient forests by multinational corporations, a legacy of the colonial oppression of Aborigines. Kazutomi Kozuki evokes both individual and collective trauma over nuclear disaster, the damage it wreaks on bodies and land, the (in)visible wounds that do not heal. Jean Michel Sinisterra Munoz finds reflections of Colombia’s guerrilla warfare – with its deadly capacity to draw in the very young as combatants – in the juggernaut of Syria’s civil war.

Songstresses and musicians Ghalia Benali, Patrizia Bovi and Tsubasa Hori join the dancers to give voice to and, conversely, pierce the depth of human solitude and sorrow. Filmmaker Sabine Groenewegen’s images act as portals that transmit elements from the outer world to the stage, or could it be the other way around?

Karthika Naïr

Presented by STUK.

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Concept and direction  Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Choreography Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Moving image Sabine Groenewegen
Music composition and arrangements Ghalia Benali, Patrizia Bovi, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Karsten Fundal, Tsubasa Hori Sound design moving image Sabine Groenewegen Dance Kazutomi “Tsuki” Kozuki, Nicola Leahey, Jean Michel Sinisterra Munoz Live music  Ghalia Benali, Patrizia Bovi, Tsubasa Hori, Kazutomi “Tsuki” Kozuki Live footage Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern Dramaturgy Timmy De Laet Text Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Arwa Damon (CNN), Alice Eather Light design Krispijn Schuyesmans Costumes Veerle Van den Wouwer Technicians Andries Van Gulck, Maxime Guislain, Elric Reinartz, Janneke Hertoghs Dresser Saar Winters Production/tour manager Tanja Vrancken, Gert Van Overloop, Lars Boot Technical production Manu Van Heuckelom Produced by Eastman Co-commissioned 
TorinoDanza Festival  Copyright video © GREENPEACE © SONUMA-RTBF archive images Thanks to 
Karthika Naïr, Katrina Channells, Anna Sato, Michael Eather, Noni Eather, Grace Eather, Darius Devas (Being Films), Akihide Oishi (Iwakubi Onidaiko), Rintaro Murayama (Iwakubi Onidaiko) With the support of the BNP Paribas Foundation, the Flemish Government and the Belgian Federal Government’s Tax Shelter program.
Eastman is resident at deSingel International Arts Campus, Antwerp.