Hervé Koubi
Herve Koubi trained at the “Ecole de la danse”, notably with Rosella Hightower, Hervé Koubi began his career as a performer in pieces by Jean-Christophe Paré and Emilio Calcagno.
Dancer then at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes 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 it was in 2000 that he decided to develop his choreographic project.
It is first the Tradition, and all the oral and bodily transmission that it carries in it, which will capture his interest. A dance which gathers, which unites, which makes the links between the balls of yesteryear, the rave parties and the dance gatherings of today. It is then notions of traces, memories, and filiations which will lead him in particular to Algeria, in search of his roots.
This is how, in 2009, the man and his artistic career were struck by urban dances, even though they were already present, like a precursor echo, from his first creations. Since then, he has considered the porosity of techniques between them as a space for experimentation that would go beyond technical and aesthetic frameworks and affiliations.
Since 2017, he has collaborated on all of his creations with Fayçal Hamlat, a dancer and choreographer with whom he shares a common vision.
Fayçal Hamlat, a dancer and choreographer from urban dances whom he met when he was the official choreographer of the National Ballet of Algiers, was first a dancer for Hervé Koubi and then became his assistant.
While Hervé Koubi was struck by Hip-Hop dance, Fayçal Hamlat took the opposite path, influenced and nourished in turn by contemporary dance. Fayçal Hamlat has since made his contribution and has today become the necessary collaborator of Hervé Koubi to affirm a mixed writing. Field choreographer is also in the encounter and sharing between his works, the public and the different practices that he develops with his team many projects of territories that question and define the boundaries in hollow of a Ballet of the XXI century at the same time heir of its history, open and current.
He was decorated in July 2015 with the order of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
Dancer then at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes 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 it was in 2000 that he decided to develop his choreographic project.
It is first the Tradition, and all the oral and bodily transmission that it carries in it, which will capture his interest. A dance which gathers, which unites, which makes the links between the balls of yesteryear, the rave parties and the dance gatherings of today. It is then notions of traces, memories, and filiations which will lead him in particular to Algeria, in search of his roots.
This is how, in 2009, the man and his artistic career were struck by urban dances, even though they were already present, like a precursor echo, from his first creations. Since then, he has considered the porosity of techniques between them as a space for experimentation that would go beyond technical and aesthetic frameworks and affiliations.
Since 2017, he has collaborated on all of his creations with Fayçal Hamlat, a dancer and choreographer with whom he shares a common vision.
Fayçal Hamlat, a dancer and choreographer from urban dances whom he met when he was the official choreographer of the National Ballet of Algiers, was first a dancer for Hervé Koubi and then became his assistant.
While Hervé Koubi was struck by Hip-Hop dance, Fayçal Hamlat took the opposite path, influenced and nourished in turn by contemporary dance. Fayçal Hamlat has since made his contribution and has today become the necessary collaborator of Hervé Koubi to affirm a mixed writing. Field choreographer is also in the encounter and sharing between his works, the public and the different practices that he develops with his team many projects of territories that question and define the boundaries in hollow of a Ballet of the XXI century at the same time heir of its history, open and current.
He was decorated in July 2015 with the order of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
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