18 October | 20:00 – I.L.Caragiale National Theatre, Big Hall
In order to talk about his Algerian origins, French-born choreographer Hervé Koubi chooses Dance. As the young boy, an ordinary hero from the eponymous novel by Yasmina Khadra, Hervé Koubi embarks as an explorer of his own history.
by Hervé Koubi
Dancers :
Adil Bousbara, Mohammed Elhilali, Abdelghani Ferradji, Zakaria Ghezal, Oualid
Guennoun, Bendehiba Maamar, Giovanni Martinat, Nadjib Meherhera, Riad Mendjel,
Mourad Messaoud, Houssni Mijem, Ismail Oubbajaddi, Issa Sanou, El Houssaini Zahid
Choreography: Hervé Koubi
Assistants: Fayçal Hamlat, Guilaume Gabriel, Carl Portal
Music: Hamza El Din (Kronos Quartet), Johann Sebastian Bach, Maxime Bodson, Sufi music
Music Arrangement and Costumes: Guillaume Gabriel
Lights: Lionel Buzonie
Duration: 1 h 15 min (no intermission)
Compagnie Hervé Koubi, France
Dance performance
Twelve Algerian and Burkina Faso dancers, mostly coming from street dance, from hip-hop, have furnished the necessary effort for this long-term project. Fed by Orientalist paintings, the stone filigree of Islamic architecture, Koubi traces his own path, made of entanglements, a complex weave. “Ce que le jour doit à la nuit” is a story about roots, bonds, time, humanity.
“It is like an orientalist of the 19th century came to Algeria to give life to his dreams of the Orient; I would like to give life to my dreams as a child born in France, and who discovered belatedly his true origins and those of his parents, Algerians from birth.” (Hervé Koubi)
