Like his onetime employer, Martha Graham, he is unafraid of tackling big themes, including Greek mythology.
Linbury Studio theatre, London, 29 September-4 October (020-7304 4000) Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is never shy of tackling major themes.
She has a way of tackling big themes with the same emotional intimacy most artists use to describe their inner lives.
At the conference today the theme is "tackling the causes of poverty" and the main speeches will come from Andrew Lansley, Michael Gove, Kenneth Clarke, Iain Duncan Smith and Andrew Mitchell.
During a 2011 trimester on the theme of food, students tackled topics and issues ranging from nutrition to molecular gastronomy to fair trade.
Indie titles like the heavily spiritual Journey and Rohrer's collaborative narrative adventure Sleep is Death explore the sorts of themes tackled by the great indie filmmakers, and do so in similarly expressionistic ways.
In the first iteration of its new theme, the class tackles four of the basic needs everybody has to survive: air, water, food and energy.
That was one of the themes tackled by Barry Eichengreen, the economic historian, when he spoke this lunchtime at a Centre for European Reform event in the Clive room of the East India club (itself a venue with a degree of historical resonance).
Its theme: business opportunities in tackling climate change.
A new three-part exhibition at the Swiss Institute in New York will present a progression of artworks tackling this theme, using the 50th anniversary of Mr. Tinguely's performance as its jumping-off point.
But it was not simply that Dylan had transgressed the festival's acoustic bias: the intemperate reception was in part a protest that the folk scene's unrivalled laureate had turned his back on the "duty" to protest, in a style of singalong simplicity, in favour of more personal themes, tackled in a more personal language.
