Orbo Novo creation process by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Orbo Novo the New World explores a construct of the mind. Inspired by Jill Bolte Taylors My Stroke of Insight, a book in which she expresses her experience of having a stroke, Orbo Novo tries to create a universe where past and future meet. The piece tackles issues of freedom, contamination, perspective, loneliness and enlightenment. Searching for the perfect balance between left and right, between heaven and earth, Orbo Novo is in a way an exploration of the present moment, the Now, by trying to untangle the future from the past.

I see it not so much as choosing to hope, but more as hoping for the ability and insight to choose.

-Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, 2009

Choreography
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Composer
Szymon Brzóska

Assistants to the Choreographer
James O'Hara, Alexandra Damiani

Lighting Design
Jim French

Scenic Design
Alexander Dodge

Costume Design
Isabelle Lhoas

Assistant to the Costume Designer
Frederic Denis

Musicans
Mosaic String Quartet: Jane Chung & Liza Zurlinden, violins, Tawnya Popoff, viola, & Greg Hesselink, cello, with guest pianist Aaron Wunsch

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Entertainment

Tags:

• dance
• ballet
• cedar lake
• sidi larbi cherkaoui
• new york

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