TEDxFlanders - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui -- Eastman - Choreographer of Movement

Founded in January 2010, Eastman was set up to produce and spread the works of Artistic Director/Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Cherkaoui’s work provides the audience with a vast array of projects and collaborations; ranging from contemporary dance, theatre, ballet, opera, musicals and other forms of performance. His non-hierarchical thinking on movement, body language, and culture, is the basis of his artistic approach. Set in his native harbor city Antwerp, Eastman forms the central point for all of Cherkaoui’s work. Eastman is an associated partner with deSingel International Arts Campus, Antwerp and partner with Toneelhuis, Antwerp. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is also the Associate Artist at Sadler’s Wells and the Artistic Director of Dance at the Fondazione Musica per Roma. In his work, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui treats themes that have been with him for a long time, such as the intrinsic equality of different cultures and religious viewpoints. In April this year he was awarded the title of