Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
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PRESENTATION
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In 2000 Hervé KOUBI created his first project entitled Le Golem. Since 2001 he has formed a collaboration with Guillaume Gabriel ...
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Of Algerian origin, and with a diploma achieved in a Doctorate of Pharmacology/ Clinical Biology he has equally developed his career ...
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In 2000 Hervé KOUBI created his first project entitled
Le Golem. Since 2001
he has formed a collaboration with Guillaume Gabriel for the entirity
of his works. Hervé KOUBI then created Ménagerie
(2002) and Les abattoirs, fantaisie...
(2004). In 2006 he worked with the musician Laetitia Sheriff to create
4'30''.
In 2007 he adapted a deambulatoire made for the Croisette de
Cannes (1997)
Les Heures Florissantes,
for the festival of Arcachon and also attempted a mixture of modern writing
and Hip-Hop movement with Moon Dogs.
One of the preoccupations of Hervé KOUBI is that of the
construction and the writing of choreography. In 2008 he undertook an
attempt at adapting three pieces of choreography to three pieces of writing:
Coppélia, une fiancée
aux yeux d'émail... / Les
Suprêmes / Bref
séjour chez les vivants. He has also worked alongside
the writer Chantal Thomas during the creation of Les Suprêmes
and with the notation writer Romain Panassie (Benesh Movement Notation)
on the creation of Bref séjour chez les vivants with the
intention of deepening his knowledge of writing and to develop his research
into the notion of trace.
"But whose trace is it? His? Theirs? That which is followed or which
will remain? Is it from there that we came? Where have we passed, and
what has guided and built this path? Or maybe it is a part of what is
experienced today, that which is given to others as a play thing, to dance
with…
Could this trace be a path drawn day after day, formed by experiences
and encounters? Will it be an imaginary line on a card, a path forged
which will remain for others in the hope that they may wish to walk it?
In his work Hervé KOUBI attempts to reply to these questions:
this trace, he says, is the foundation of his dance, that which nourishes
him. He devines the curves, the lines, the to-and-fro on stage; he imagines
multiple roads which cross and sometimes collide, the dead ends, the passages,
the dark lanes and the great avenues…"
Stephane Chazelon