Larbi’s Influences

Question 1

Explain who Wim Vandekeybus is and how he is one of Larbi’s influences

Answer 1

-animalistic movement quality through his use of conflict, tension, impulses, and physicality from a range of sources
-larbi learnt his style while studying at P.A.R.T.S

Question 2

Explain who Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker is and how she is one of Larbi’s influences

Answer 2

-Associated with post modern dance qualities and deconstructing dance
-non linear, heavily gestural based, lots of manipulation through motif development
-she is the owner of the school P.A.R.T.S which larbi attended for 3 years

Question 3

Explain who Pina Bausch is and how she is one of Larbi’s influences

Answer 3

-multidisciplinary production, humour, singing, acting, engage with audiences
-set is important and layered with different things creating a multi sensory experience
-emotive from the inside out, and can come across quite brutal as the physical presentation mirrors the internal emotions

Question 4

Explain who Trisha Brown is and how she is one of Larbi’s influences

Answer 4

-uses release technique by skinner
-anatomical efficiency of the body appearing effortless

Question 5

Explain who William Foresythe is and how he is one of Larbi’s influences

Answer 5

-mathematical structuring and geometric form
-complex choreography with layering

Question 6

Explain who Bruce Lee is and how he is one of Larbi’s influences

Answer 6

-he is representative of popular culture, music videos and film
-as a teenager Bruce loved watching Bruce Lee films fascinated by the Kung Fu movements
-hip hop was just beginning to influence mainland Europe
-he started imitating artists such as Prince and Janet Jackson and other 80s pop artists doing routines where they all moved around together which appealed to him

Question 7

Explain who Alain Patel is and how he is one of Larbi’s key influences

Answer 7

-Larbi’s first professional mentor
-known for radical dance theatre and Les Ballet C de la B
-he was born in Belgium like Larbi
-he often casts children and fairground performers and features dancers with both c,así al and contemporary training
-he loved theatre and mime
-typically his working method is free-form and he improvises with his dancers as they move, sing and recite text.
-in one of his works Wolf (2003) fourteen dogs wonder the stage