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Hervé Koubi
Field choreographer
Trained at the ‘school of dance’, notably with Rosella Hightower, Hervé Koubi began his career as a performer in pieces by Jean-Christophe Paré and Emilio Calcagno. He then danced at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes with Claude Brumachon and Benjamin Lamarche, then at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen with Karine Saporta and in the Compagnie Thor in Brussels with Thierry Smits. In 2000, he decided to develop his own choreographic project.
It was first and foremost tradition, and all the oral and physical transmission that it carries with it, that captured his interest. A dance that brings people together, that unites, that creates links between the balls of yesteryear, raves and dance gatherings. It was then notions of traces, memories and filiations that led him to Algeria in particular, in search of his roots.
Thus, in 2009, the man and his artistic journey were struck by urban dances, even though they were already present, like a forerunner echo, in his earliest creations.
He views the porosity between techniques as a space for experimentation that transcends technical and aesthetic boundaries and affiliations.
As a field choreographer, it is also through encounters and exchanges between his works, audiences and practices that he develops numerous regional projects that question and define the boundaries of an open and contemporary 21st-century ballet.
In July 2015, he was awarded the Order of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by Brigitte Lefèvre.
