Made in 2013, 生长 genesis, was born between Beijing and Antwerp, Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.
Genesis 生长interweavesphilosophicalideasaboutaperson'splaceinsocietywithclinical and almost dystopian imagery, set to the sounds of live music drawn from global roots. Figures in white coats wearing masks over their mouths, observing and conducting tests on other people. Between them stand glass cages suggestive of gigantic test tubes. GENESIS 生 长, as the title suggests, is a show about the origins of things. We are born and then we die, and in the meantime we undergo constant testing and increasing estrangement from the natural world.
To use Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s words, “It is about growth, whether global, personal or artistic”. He translates philosophical ideas about life, the pressures imposed on us by our society to perform and conform, into beautiful sequences of movement in which East and West, life and death, come together.