Tag Compagnie Herve Koubi

Boys do not cry is a young public piece built on the basis of a text by Chantal Thomas, written especially for the piece, around an unlikely football game, playground and dance. This is a pretext for a nostalgic, funny…

Thirteen bare-chested men, street dancers from Algeria and Burkina Faso, seem perfectly at home onstage of The Joyce Theater in Compagnie Hervé Koubi’s What the Day Owes to the Night. The French company made its New York premiere to a packed house,…

Following previous all-male works such as Ce que le jour doit à la nuit (“What the Day Owes to the Night”) and Les nuits barbares ou les premiers matins du monde (“Barbarian Nights or the First Mornings of the World”),…

The Barbarian Nights or the first mornings of the world A French choreographer of Algerian descent, born to a Muslim mother and Jewish father, Hervé Koubi has long been fascinated by the historical coming together and coming apart of different…