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Workshop
Dance Workshop
Urban & Contemporary Dance Workshop with Cie Hervé Koubi
Presented with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Tuesday, Sep 3 @ 6:30pm, 2024
The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi
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Members of Cie Hervé Koubi guide participants in exploring the vocabulary and style of Koubi’s artistry, delving into essential aspects of urban and modern dance. Dancers will refine their movement precision, stability, smoothness, and resilience while tackling various challenges, all while learning a segment from the company’s repertoire. Participants will learn from Koubi’s world renowned choreographic work, famous for being a highly physical, fluid, and gravity-defying style which combines capoeira, martial arts, and acrobatics into urban and contemporary dance.
The workshop is open to participants with varying styles and levels, and to those who are curious to learn a new dance style.
Biography
Hervé Koubi
Of Algerian roots, Hervé Koubi grew up in France where he studied biology and dance at the University of Aix-en-Provence before graduating as a Pharmaceutical Doctor in 2002. After deciding to concentrate on a dancing career and graduating from the Rosella Hightower School of Dance in Cannes, Koubi gained professional experience as a dancer before creating his first project entitled Le Golem and collaborating with Guillaume Gabriel for all his works and more recently also with Fayçal Hamlat. Since 2010, he has been working with a group of 12 to 14 all male street dancers from North Africa on several works including What the Day Owes to The Night (presented at The Arts Center in two sold out shows in 2023, The Barbarian Nights or The First Dawns of the World, Boys Don’t Cry (October 2018), and ODYSSEY (January 2020).
More recently, he has been Associate Choreographer at the Pole National Supérieur de Danse in France and has been awarded the French medal of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in July 2015. His company is based mainly in Calais, in Northern France, and keeps strong relationships with Cannes and the region Nouvelle Aquitaine
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Performance
Arab World Premiere
Sol Invictus — Cie Hervé Koubi
Presented with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Thu-Fri, Sep 5-6 @ 7:30pm, 2024
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