« I think I disappointed you Daddy. I can read on your face. You are concerned, you are ashamed. One day you’ll be proud of me Dad.
They say I look like my father a lot.
When you have the chance to give life and become a parent, you never really die. That may be eternal life.
In some cultures, people dance for the dead. Not because they are happy that the dead person has gone, but because Dance is so important that to pay tribute to the one who leaves, they dance for him. It would therefore be possible for the living to speak to the dead, like an outstreched hand to those who have disappeared, a hand held to keep those who are no longer there within the world of the living.
And after all, I’m here, I’m here for you Dad. I’m in your steps but dancing. I just feel alive when I dance. For me dancing is life. So Daddy, let me dance, let me dance Daddy.
I love the night... and in the night I dream and in my dreams I dance and I hear you say Daddy : I’m here, dance my son, I’m proud of you, dance my son, dance...»
Hervé Koubi
Excerpts of the text written for Boys don’t cry
Choreography: Hervé Koubi - Fayçal Haml
Text: Chantal Thomas - Hervé Koubi
Choreophraphic Artists: Adil Bousbara, Mohammed Elhilali, Zakaria Ghezal, Bendehiba Maamar, Mourad Messaoud, Houssni Mijem, El houssaini Zahid
Music: Diana Ross - Oum - Chants traditionnels russes / russian traditional songs
Original score: Stéphane Fromentin
Arrangements: Guillaume Gabriel
Lighting Director: Lionel Buzonie
Costums: Guillaume Gabriel
Production: Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
Coproductions: Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil et du Val de Marne - Compagnie Käfig / Théätre de Cusset - Scène conventionnée - Scène régionale d’Auvergne.
With the support of : Channel – Scène Nationale de Calais / Conservatoire de Calais / Conservatoire de Musique et de Danse de Brive-la-Gaillarde / Ecole Supérieure de Danse de Cannes - Rosella Hightower / CDEC – Studios actuels de la danse de Vallauris / Ville de Vallauris / Conservatoire de Calais.
Roots in Algeria , pharmaceutical doctor , Hervé Koubi decided to concentrate on a career as dancer - choreographer and his studies in Aix - Marseilles . Continued at the International Dance Center Rosella Hightower in Cannes and later at the Opera of Marseilles , he has worked with Jean-Charles Gil , Jean-Christophe Paré , Emilio Calcagno and Barbara Sarreau. In 1999 he joined the Centre Choreographique National de Nantes. After that he worked with Karine Saporta of the Centre Choreographique National de Caen and Thierry Smits Company Thor in Brussels.
In 2000, Herve Koubi created his first project Le Golem. Since he collaborates with Guillaume Gabriel. He created Ménagerie (2002), Les Abattoirs, fantaisie... (2004). In 2006 Koubi worked with Laetitia Sheriff, a musician, for the creation of 4’30. Fastforwaring to 2007 he reworked a moving show Les Heures Florissantes along the famous La Croisette in Cannes created back in 1997. During the same year, forging Contemporary and Hip Hop moves for his first time he created Moon Dogs. In 2008, Koubi spearheads the creation of three choreographic pieces based around three writings : Coppelia, une fiancee aux yeux d’email.../ Les Supremes / Bref sejour chez les vivants. For these pieces, he collaborated with the writer Chantal Thomas (Les Supremes) and Benesh Mouvement notator Romain Panassie (Bref sejour chez les vivants). In 2009, he kickstarted a collaboration with Ivory Coast dancers from Beliga Kope Company for Un rendez-vous en Afrique.
Furthermore, Koubi has collaborated alongside with videographers for several dance video projects such as Chic Chef (2009) with Max Vadukul for Yoji Yamamoto, Bodyconcrete (2010) and Ovoid edges (2012) with Pierre Magnol and Bodyconcrete 2 (2011) with Michel Giumbard and Pierre Magnol.
Since 2010, Koubi has embarked a team of a dozen Algerian and Burkinian, on a path marked by several creations such as El Din (2010-2011), Ce que le jour doit à la nuit (2013), Le rêve de Lea (2014), Des hommes qui dansent (2014), Les nuits barbares ou les premiers matins du monde (2015-2016), Boys don’t cry (2018).
Hervé Koubi is regularly invited by many professional training schools throughout France as well as abroad.
Since 2014, he has been Associate Choreographer at the Pole National Superieur de Danse (The Superior School of Dance of Cannes and the Superior School of Dance of Marseilles). From 2015 onwards, he has also been Associate Choreographer at the Conservatoire de Danse de Brive-la-Gaillar.
Hervé Koubi has been awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in July of 2015 by Brigitte Lefèvre.
“Opening up a wide range of possibilities, Boys Don't Cry is above all about the freedom to be yourself, whether you're a man or a woman.”
“Led by seven male performers, Boys Don't Cry deals with the social and family pressures that can build up in children's bodies and minds, to which dance can provide a liberating and joyful response.”
“Boys Don't Cry is a nostalgic, funny and tender reflection on what it's like to dance when you're a boy, especially when you come from North Africa and the Arab world.”
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