Compagnie Hervé KOUBI

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Moon Dogs

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A piece for 7 Hip-Hop dancers
For a duration of 31 minutes

A meeting, and then another…
…and again another.
A trial, for a little dance…attempt to say something, however there is someone/something before us, when I dance, when he dances and finally when we all dance…
…to the music composed by Moondog.


Two different worlds. Two conceptions of dance. Some self-taught hip-hop dancers, a contemporary choreographer. A meeting! Mix the ingredients: rich and varied propositions from the hip-hop dancers confronted by a significant limitation of space with it’s unexpected and unavoidable constraints. The shock? Certainly not ! The reason ? Simply an opening of the spirit and a tolerance from both sides ! An experience worth renewing ? Why not ? A creation ? Absolutely! With all the indispensable implications and energy!
Marc-Antoine Cueille

Often confronting one another face-to-face, in a remarkable form of codified movement, Hip-Hop dancers always make me think of classical dancers when, in the middle of a piece, we applaud the performance of the principle dancer and can name each movement that is performed. However, this dance is also from our time, a very physical dance, athletic, where the body is forcefully engaged, where contact is rare and interaction still has a long way to go. In this piece the hip-hop dancers have accepted to work under the gaze of a ‘contemporary’ choreographer who has purposely avoided imposing his own gestures but has simply written the relations between dancers and with the public. New relations for us all: the bodies touch, playing with imbalance, strength without violence, whilst supporting with no aggression, and then the music opens up different perspectives. The bodies are engaged and under the lights, faces and muscles shine with sweat. The ‘tableaux’ which follow evoke paintings, images, and the cinema.
Marc Verhaverbeke

Credits:

• Choreography: Hervé KOUBI assisted by Guilaume GABRIEL
  With the participation of Cheikh Sall from the group la Compagnie Onstap for the work on body percussion
  Performers: Céline AMATO / Tony AUGUSTE or Mickaël SIX / Anthony BARDEAU / Ponna BOU / Matthieu LE MOINE / Yamina MEZIANI / Ken THUE
  Music: Flii Stylz & Red Ronin, Matmos, Moondog

Legal notices:

• Production: Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
  Co-production: Ville de Brive-la-Gaillarde / Théâtre de la Grange de Brive-la-Gaillarde / Festival Artzimuts ( Lot)
  
  With the support of l’Espace l’Ecluse de La Souterraine.

Distribution:

• 24 and 25 May 2007: Théâtre de la Grange -Brive
  1 June 2007: Centre Culturel John Lennon -Limoges
  17 July 2007: Guéret
  9 August 2007: Bretenoux Sur Cère
  29 November 2007: Espace l’Ecluse de La Souterraine
  21 March 2008: Chambre de Commerce et de l’Industrie de Brive-la-Gaillarde
  28 March 2008: Château des Rochers de Nogent sur oise
  25 April 2008: Festival de Moyen Métrage de Brive-la-Gaillarde
  27 May 2008: Grand Théâtre de Limoges Festival UNSS
  30 May 2008: Centre Culturel Jacques Cartier de Brive-la-Gaillarde
  31 May 2008: SMAC Des lendemains qui chantent de Tulle
  21 June 2008: Fête de la Musique de Brive-la-Gaillarde
  23 June 2008: Collège Voltaire d’Ussel
  6 and 7 July 2008: Festival Les Trans’urbaines de Clermont-Ferrand
  23 September 2008: Festival Cadences - Scène conventionnée plateau pour la danse
  7 August 2008: Festival tuberculture de Chanteix
  25 September 2008: Théâtre de la Grange de Brive
  28 January 2009: Bazoche sur Hoëne
  29 January 2009: Centre Culturel de Segré
  3 February 2009: Centre culturel de Bergerac
  12 February 2009: Centre Culturel Saint Martin les Boulogne
  13 February 2009: Les Arcades de Faches Thumesnil
  27 March 2009: Festival de Cultures Urbaines de Limoges Centre culturel Jean Gagnant
  31 March 2009: Festival de Cultures Urbaines de Guéret
  April 2009: Théâtre de Menton
  10 May 2009: UNSS Aquitaine
  16 May 2009: Théâtre du Donjon de Pithiviers
  28 July 2009: Festival Danse au Château de Roquebrune Cap Martin
  29 July 2009: Festival de Danse de Puget-Théniers
  3 August 2009: Place de la Guierle de Brive la Gaillarde
  9 October 2009: Centre culturel de Cendre dans le cadre du Festival Les Automnales du Conseil Général du puy de Dôme
  31 October 2009: MJC Picaud de Cannes
  3 November 2009: Centre culturel Jean-Pierre Fabrègue de Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche
  10 November 2009: Théâtre de la Chélidoine à Saint Angel
  20 November 2009: Salle Léonard de Vinci de Mandelieu La Napoule
  28 November 2009: Centre culturel La Passerelle de Fleury les Aubrais
  
  From the 12 February until the 9 March 2010, Algerian tour:
  - 18 February 2010: Centre Culturel Français d’Oran
  - 24 and 25 February 2010: Centre Culturel Français d’Annaba
  - 28 February 2010: Centre Culturel Français d’Alger
  >> This tour is supported by Cultures France
  
  17 April 2010: Centre Culturel de Léon
  18 April 2010: Espace des Trois Provinces de Brive – charitable performance for the research into Friedrich's ataxia
  20 April 2010: Centre Culturel Gérard Philippe de Calais
  21 April 2010: Salle Municipale de Marck
  23 April 2010: Théâtre de Grans
  30 April 2010: Centre culturel de Gacé
  13 May 2010: Théâtre de Dax