Don't Put Me in a Box | 2025 SF Dance Film Festival

Director: Romain Girard

Choreographer: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

(2024) 85 minutes

Documentary

Step inside the singular creative world of choreographer, visionary, and cultural shapeshifter Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Don’t Put Me in a Box is an intimate documentary that follows Cherkaoui across two years and three continents as he blurs borders between traditions, aesthetics, and identities. From Sufi poetry to cyberpunk spectacle, the film reveals how Cherkaoui’s Flemish-Moroccan heritage and artistic curiosity converge in groundbreaking work that defies genre. Offering glimpses of rehearsal processes, sketchbooks, and social media posts, the film is as layered and genre-bending as the artist himself.

5:00p | House Opens

5:30p | Program begins

Runtime: 105 minutes

Tickets purchased at the door will cost $1 additional per ticket.

Venue Accessibility: Brava Theater is located at 2781 24th Street. Curb cuts for the sidewalk to the Brava Theater Center are located on the corner of York and 24th Street. The entrance of the theater is on the ground floor and there is an elevator to seating in the upper level of the theater.

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