"Vlaemsch (chez moi) is Flemish-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's love letter to his native Flanders. Like so many love letters, it's full of anger, pain and recrimination. Its tone is by turns overblown, infuriated, accusatory, ironic and tender. It is, nonetheless, a love letter in the guise of a piece of dance-theatre. Cherkaoui's background is as complex as that of his native Flanders. He was born in Antwerp, the son of a Moroccan father and a Flemish mother;"
"The visual artist Hans Op de Beeck is responsible for a predominantly grey set, a reference to the gloomy tones of Flemish skies and landscape, that shows the outlines of a two-storey house with its V-shaped roof flanked by an old-fashioned turret. Downstage to our right, a large skull sits atop an open book alongside a candle and some fruit. So many symbols to decode"
Vlaemsch (chez moi) is Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's dance-theatre exploration of Flemish identity that mixes anger, pain, recrimination, irony and tenderness. The choreographer's Flemish-Moroccan origins mirror Belgium's hybrid identities, with French-speaking Wallonia and Dutch-speaking Flanders alongside a traumatic colonial past. The production interrogates immigration, gender, Flemish artistic tradition and religious piety through dense, symbolic sequences and a multinational cast of fourteen dancers. Hans Op de Beeck's predominantly grey set evokes Flemish skies and outlines a two-storey house populated by emblematic objects such as a skull on an open book. Religious tableaux, including a Christ figure and a Last Supper-like dinner, foreground faith and identity construction.
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