Herve Koubi Ballet Company (Ballet company)
In 2000 Herve Koubi created his first project Le Golem. Since
2001 he has collaborated with Guillaume Gabriel on all of his works. He created
Menagerie (2002) and Les abbatoirs, fantasie (2004). In 2006 he
worked with the musician Laetitia Sheriff for the piece 4’30”.
In 2007 he reworked a ‘deambulatoire’ (ambulatory piece) originally created for
the Croisette de Cannes in 1997, Les Heures Florissantes for
the festival ‘Cadences d’Arcahon’ and also a piece mixing contemporary writing
and gestural hip-hop: Moon Dog. In 2008 he undertook three
choreographic works based around three pieces of writing: Coppelia, une
fiancee aux yeux d’email… / Les Suprкmes /
Bref sejour chez les vivants. He collaborated with the author
Chantal Thomas for the creation of Les Suprкmes and with the
‘notateur’ (a specialist in choreographic notation) Romain Panassie (Benesh
notation) on the work Bref sejour chez les vivants. In 2009 he
started on a collaboration with the Ivorian dancers of the company ‘Beliga Kope’
for the piece entitled Un rendez-vous en Afrique, and from the
year 2010 until 2013 he has accompanied a troupe of twelve Algerian and Burkina
Faso dancers for a fixed course between two creations, El Din
(created in 2010/2011) and Ce que le jour doit а la nuit
(created in 2013).
He has also worked with film-makers for video-dance
projects, such as Max Vadukul and Yoji Yamamoto for the Chic
Chef in 2009, Pierre Magnol for Body concrete in 2010
and Ovoid Edges in 2012, and once again Pierre Magnol along
with Michel Guimbard for Body concrete 2 in 2011, and also
Stephane Chanzalon for Une Histoire des Traces which began in
2012 and will continue until 2015.
In parallel to the creative work of
the ‘Compagnie Herve Koubi’, he is also regularly invited to various
professional training centres around France (‘EPSE DANSE’ in Montpellier, the
‘Centre National de la Danse’ in Lyon, and the ‘Ecole Superiere de la Danse’ in
Cannes, etc.) and abroad (the national ballet of Ecuador, the ‘Ministere de la
Culture et de la Francophonie’ in the Ivory Coast, the national ballet of
Yucatan in Mexico). In 2012, at the invitation of Paola Cantalupo- director of
the ‘Ecole Superiere de Danse de Cannes’- he became the choreographer of the
boys contemporary variation for the qualification of ‘Diplфme National Superieur
Professionnel du Danseur’. In 2012, the ‘Forum Jaques Prevert de Carros’
obtained the support of the ‘Ministere de la Culture’ (France)- DRAC PACA
through the ‘Projet identite memoire construit’ for his collaboration with the
‘Compagnie Herve Koubi’.
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