Country: France

"When I was young, before I discovered the Art of Dance and became fully devoted to it, I was fascinated by drawing. Today I keep this same preoccupation in what I call, in my work, my taste for the construction of the gesture and its setting in space.Where I leave, where I am going, what will be my path ... I probably kept this unspeakable taste to leave the trace of the artistic gesture coupled with a concern that heart, the relationship to time.

Going on the quest of this day to give it strength and form as one goes in search of the Truth or more exactly of a truth. Lace is above all by definition a way of creating the "day", the day in a fabric, the day in the material ...

 ... the day in my history and why not, without appearing too ambitious and even less pretentious, in history. It constitutes an ideal "pretext", a marvelous transposition of my paths and those traversed by each of the dancers encountered in Algeria, as so many threads mingling and intertwining, so many links also unite us in a history and a geography, that of the great Mediterranean basin.

 To celebrate the lace in its refinement, its beauty while attaching itself to a work of memory. This project is at the crossroads of two preoccupations: my taste for the construction and the danced composition and a deep need to bring me closer to my origins in the land of Algeria. Links to be found, others to be renewed and still others to be built ".

Hervé Koubi – working notes