BABEL(words) Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Damien Jalet OFFICIAL

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Damien Jalet join forces with UK visual artist Antony Gormley to create ’Babel (Words)’, a dance performance that explores language and its relationship with nationhood, identity and religion. Taking the tale of ’The Tower of Babel’ as its starting point, Gormley’s huge 3-dimensional frames hint at a nameless intersection in a faceless future-city near the nowhere border of no man’s land. We watch as the action flows from private to public, intimate to extrovert, and individual to collective - while choices of faith, space and community are made and we are reminded that to some the tale of Babel represents the gates to enlightenment, to others -- chaos, confusion and conflict. As with their previous collaborations, the show is informed by a profound ’belief in the belief that something matters’. ’Babel (Words)’ takes us on a search for what that might be, telling both a bold and tender story of personal, physical, cultural, polit