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Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui defies easy description: choreographer, opera director, dancer, composer… Artistic director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders as well as of Eastman, his contemporary dance company, and associate artist at Sadler’s Wells, London, Cherkaoui may just as easily be found in the Louvre museum choreographing a music video for Beyoncé and Jay-Z (the 2018 MTV Music Video Awards-nominated Apeshit) as at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, directing a radical version of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque opus Les Indes galantes (2016).

Then again, he could be working in the Shaolin Temple in Song Shan, Henan, alongside a battalion of kung fu warrior monks and sculptor Antony Gormley (Sutra, 2008). Or creating movement magic at Tokyo’s Bunkamura Theatre by transmuting Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki’s award-winning manga series into a kinetic, high-octane play (Pluto, 2015).

The slew of awards he has picked up across this millennium reflec