Photo by Olivier Soulie
A jaw-dropping, gravity-defying dance work that blends contemporary and urban dance with martial arts!
Choreographer, Hervé Koubi retraces his own Algerian history by relating it to the story of a young boy from a novel by Yasmina Khadra. What The Day Owes To The Night features a highly physical, stunningly fluid, gravity-defying piece that combines capoeira, martial arts, urban, and contemporary dance with powerful imagery evocative of orientalist paintings and the stone filigree of Islamic architecture, with music by Kronos Quartet, Bach, and Hamza El Din’s traditional melodies of the Mediterranean Basin.
“With striking visuals and daring physicality, Compagnie Hervé KOUBI’s What the Day Owes to the Night has dazzled audiences around the world since its premiere in 2013. But beyond all the high-flying choreography, this groundbreaking work tells a deeply personal story of family and cultural identity [Algeria].” Nashville Scene