Compagnie Hervé KOUBI

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Mail: herve.koubi@wanadoo.fr
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Les abattoirs, fantaise...

Five years ago I fell in love with the traditional music from the centre of France, which was previously totally unknown to me, and I would never have imagined to what point they would cause me to question myself. Through Les abattoirs, fantasie…& I would like to share a sensitive but critical view on what touches me and on the elements which have inspired and constructed me.

Courtly dance, night clubs and rave parties, village dances and video clips are amongst many types of presentation – ‘clichées’ or exagerations – from a society which likes to dance in public.

Meanwhile I ask myself endlessly what could be hidden behind the apparent reality of these images which we sometimes form into strange phenomenon. The sense of life raised through dance has always moved the masses, persuaded that they hold onto a universal fashion. However, beyond catagorised genres, people dance to traditional music as they dance to electronic music and they tirelessly continue because ‘living’ has eternally rhymed with ‘dance’.

Les abattoirs, fantasie…& is perhaps only a show which has a single aim of creating the urge to dance but the abattoirs are my own fantasy, and it is up to you to make your own…

Hervé KOUBI

Credits:

• Choreography: Hervé KOUBI
  Choreographic Assistant: Guillaume Gabriel
  Assistant Producer: David Gauchard
  Dancers: Aline Courivaud-Jaulin, Olivier Durif, Guillaume Gabriel, Grégory Jolivet, Mamajung Kim, Jean Malbernard, Guillaume Marie, Thomas Regnier, Rolando Rocha, Laurent Rousseau
  Voice: Isabelle Machado
  Lighting: Claire Debar

Legal notices:

• Production: Compagnie Hervé KOUBI, Ville de Cannes Direction des Affaires Culturelles – Made in Cannes, Ville de Brive-la-Gaillarde Saison culturelle
  Coproduction: Ballet National de Marseille Centre Chorégraphique National / Ballet Biarritz Centre Chorégraphique National / Ecole Nationale de Musique, de Danse et d’Art Dramatique de Brive-la-Gaillarde / Sémaphore de Cébazat Scène conventionnée / Théâtre du Puy-en-Velay
  
  Thanks to: The work L’Album Auvergnat – commande de l’ADDMD 63 – has worked as a laboratory and prefigured Les abattoirs, fantaisie… Thanks to the artistic team of l’Album Auvergnat and thanks to Delphine Perrin and Yvan Karvaix for their support and confidence.

Partners:

• La compagnie Hervé KOUBI is subsidised by: la DRAC Limousin, le Conseil Régional Limousin, le Conseil Général de la Corrèze, le Conseil Général des Alpes-Maritimes, la Ville de Brive-la-Gaillarde, la Ville de Cannes et la SPEDIDAM.
  La compagnie Hervé KOUBI receives sponsorship from l’Imprimerie Fabrègue and the Atelier des Tulipiers in Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche

Distribution:

• 18 November 2004: Théâtre du Puy en Velay
  19 November 2004: Théâtre du Puy en Velay
  26 November 2004: Théâtre de Brive la Gaillarde
  30 November 2004: Sémaphore de Cébazat Scène conventionnée
  1 December 2004: Sémaphore de Cébazat Scène conventionnée
  10 December 2004: Théâtre la licorne Festival Made in Cannes
  14 January 2005: Espace Coevrons à Evrons
  15: February 2005: Espace Agora à Boulazac
  21 February 2005: Théâtre Gréco de Carros
  22 February 2005: Théâtre Gréco de Carros
  26 March 2005: Salle Culturelle de Marvejols
  8 April 2005: Centre culturel Margerit d’Isle
  20 May 2005: Centre culturel de Bergerac
  27 May 2005: Centre culturel de Sarlat
  28 May 2005: Festival détours de Gaillac
  25: June 2005: Théâtre d’Aurillac