Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Damien Jalet join forces with UK visual artist Antony Gormley to create ‘Babel(Words)’, a dance performance that explores language and its relationship with nationhood, identity and religion. Taking the tale of ‘The Tower of Babel’ as its starting point, Gormley’s huge 3-dimensional frames hint at a nameless intersection in a faceless future-city near the nowhere border of no man’s land. We watch as the action flows from private to public, intimate to extrovert, and individual to collective – while choices of faith, space and community are made and we are reminded that to some the tale
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