Fractus V: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui | Eastman Group 

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Fractus V is a creation with five, very different, contemporary dancers. The French virtuosic dancer Dimitri Jourde has a circus formation. The American Johnny Lloyd comes from a Lindy Hop background and is originally a musician. The Spanish dancer Fabian Thomé Duten started his career as a flamenco dancer with Joaquin Cortés and Patrick Williams Seebacher / Twoface earned his credits in hip hop and breakdance battles. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, choreographer of the performance, enriched his own fluent dance language through exchange with different dance traditions for the past 15 years.
All performers have their different dance backgrounds but still put their movements in dialogue with each other. And they share the desire to create an interesting community, both on stage and in daily life.
The live music continues this philosophy. Cherkaoui collaborates with the Japanese percussionist and singer Shogo Yoshii, the Korean singer and musician Woojae Park, the African singer and musician Kaspy N’dia and the Indian, virtuosic Sarod musician Soumik Datta. They are all experts in their own music traditions but also curious for cross-fertilizations.
Nine different nationalities and outspoken identities will dialogue to come to an intense, dramatic and fluent whole.
Fractus V stands for the natural fractures, which are necessary to grow and become stronger.