Award-winning choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui explores grief and connection while paying homage to North Africa and the Middle East.

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Ihsane

Festival Theatre Edinburgh

Is movement dance or dance movement? Siblings Imre and Marne van Opstal see themselves not only as choreographers in the classical sense but also as movement directors. Their multi-layered and often surreal approach to dance is hugely popular around the world. Collaborating for the first time with the Semperoper Ballett, the creative duo are providing the company with a brand-new work.

Vice Versa

Semperoper Dresden

Contemporary dance and ancient martial arts combine in this award-winning collaboration between Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, sculptor Antony Gormley, composer Szymon Brzóska, and 20 Buddhist monks from the Shaolin Temple in China’s Henan Province.

Sutra

Cal Performances

To save himself from a fatal storm, King Idomeneo promises the god Neptune that he will kill the first human he encounters. Unfortunately, that turns out to be his son Idamante. The king becomes torn between fatherly love and his promise to the gods. This fateful dilemma is central to Mozart's masterpiece.

Idomeneo, re di Creta

National Opera & Ballet

Marc Brew and world renowned choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui bring a stunning collaboration to the stage for the first time.

an Accident / a Life

King's Theatre

When Australian-born dance artist Marc Brew was involved in a car crash, it took him from ballet dancer to paraplegic in a split second.

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.

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Events

Upcoming events

13 - 14 Nov, 2026

an Accident / a Life · Capital Theatres

13 - 14 Nov, 2026

an Accident / a Life · National Theatre of Scotland

13 - 15 May, 2027

Ihsane · La Monnaie / De Munt

Past events

18 - 20 Aug, 2026

Ihsane · Edinburgh International Festival

6 - 19 Mar, 2026

Vice Versa · Semperoper Dresden

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