Hervé Koubi

Trained at the “school of dance”, notably with Rosella Hightower, Hervé Koubi decided in 2000 to develop his choreographic project. 

It is first of all the tradition, and all the oral and physical transmission that it carries within it, which will capture his interest. A dance that gathers, that unites, that makes links between people.
This passion for memory, filiation and History will lead him to Algeria, in 2009, in search of his own roots. There, he will be struck by urban dancers and urban practice. Since then, he considers the porosity of the techniques between them as a space of experimentation which would exceed the frameworks and the technical and aesthetic affiliations.

As a committed choreographer, he develops numerous territorial projects with the communities. With several home based locations such as Calais, Grasse, Cannes and Brive-la-Gaillarde, he develops the Danses Nomades project, which embodies a territorial networking of technical, human, and financial resources to support choreographic creation around what constitutes the company’s DNA: the blending of cultures and urban and contemporary aesthetics, the mobility and the ability to create strong and lasting connections with different territories, particularly rural areas and their culturally distant inhabitants, and the inclusion and diversity. He was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by Brigitte Lefèvre in July 2015.