The internationally acclaimed and award-winning choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui – director of the ballet company at the Grand Théâtre de Genève since 2022 – is finally returning to the big Kampnagel stage after seven years:

After “Qutb” and “Mosaic”, NOMAD is the third piece he has developed to the Middle Eastern-inspired music of Felix Buxton (Basement Jaxx) – a choreography of living and inanimate desert creatures. Animals – snakes, lizards and camels – dance in front of a gigantic statue on the back wall of the stage. The dancing bodies show the agility and adaptability of creatures that thrive in the most extreme conditions. Each individual dancer embodies the spirit of togetherness and friendship – key to survival in an inhospitable world that would be uninhabitable without mutual support.