Faun / Noetic

From the reference to Nijinsky’s mythical choreography by the Ballets Russes, after Mallarmé’s poem, in 2009 Sidi Larbi created his own Faun at the request of Sadler’s Wells. Here, the figures take on greater three-dimensionality and show mythological and savage aspects, extremely sexually charged. From Debussy’s music, but also with other interspersed excerpts by Nitin Sawhney, the childish and archaic play are combined to leap from one style to another, from one culture to another, from one century to another.