North American Tour : Compagnie Hervé Koubi
January 19, 2024 – Dallas Opera | Dallas, TX – SOL INVICTUS, including preshow talk and Q&A session with Hervé Koubi after the show
January 23, 2024 – Newman Center | Denver, CO – What the Day owes to the Night
January 23-28, 2024 – The Joyce Theater | New York, NY – SOL INVICTUS, including a post show talk on January 24
January 27, 2024 – Stewart Theater | Raleigh, NC – What the Day owes to the Night
January 30-31 2024 – Performing Arts Center – Holy Cross | Worcester, MA – What the Day owes to the Night
February 2-3, 2024 – Royal Theater | Victoria, BC, CANADA – The Barbarian Nights or the First Dawns of the World
February 5, 2024 – Port Theater | Nanaimo, BC, CANADA – What the Day owes to the Night
SOL INVICTUS
Named after the “invincible sun” deity, the work upholds love as the guarantor of peace, that despite fracture, communion emerges as humanity’s saving grace. The music score includes a composition by Swedish composer Mikael Karlsson, with excerpts by Steve Reich and digital composer Maxime Bodson. “I want to talk about light, solidarity, and those bonds that unite us,” says Koubi. “Here, the sun and the dance will emerge victorious.”
What the Day Owes to the Night
As the young boy, an ordinary hero from the eponymous novel by Yasmina Khadra, sent from one family to another, Hervé Koubi embarks as an explorer of his own history which crosses that of the boy’s with a big H.Twelve Algerian and Burkina Faso dancers, mostly coming from street dance, from hip-hop, have furnished the necessary effort for his long-term project, encountered and then worked to measur ciselée, with each of the interpreters, already attempted with El Din.
The Barbarian Nights or the First Dawns of the World
“Who were these Barbarians storming in from the North, the mysterious people of the sea that were often described in the Bible, chronicles, and ancient monuments often talks about without really describing who they were or where they came from? Who were these Barbarians of the East, the Persians, Ionians and Babylonians, the Arabo-Muslims? From what unknown, forgotten, reworked, assimilated or erased History from which we have inherited?” Hervé Koubi, Working notes, January 2015
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