Compagnie Hervé KOUBI JANUARY 6 - 11, 2026
Season Sponsor:
The Tino & Rajika Puri Auditorium
An L.A. Dance Project Production Co-presented with Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival A contemporary ballet triptych celebrating the unity of dance, music, and visual art. February 21–22, 2026 • Tickets at pacnyc.org Reflections
Photo: Laurent Philippe
Hearts and Arrows
Photo: Julie Shuford
On the Other Side
Photo: Laurent Philippe
Reflections: A Triptych by Benjamin Millepied was commissioned by Van Cleef & Arpels, and is co-presented with Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival and Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC).
The Joyce Theater Foundation presents
C E Q U E L E J O U R D O I T À LA N U I T/ W H AT T H E DAY OW E S TO T H E N I G H T CHOREOGRAPHY Hervé KOUBI DANCERS Dancers of Compagnie Hervé KOUBI MUSIC Maxime Bodson, Hamza El Din for Kronos Quartet, Jean-Sébastien Bach, Musique Soufi LIGHTS Lionel Buzonie COSTUMES Guillaume Gabriel Leadership support for The Joyce Theater Foundation has been received from the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust. Champion support for The Joyce’s annual programming has been provided by Howard Gilman Foundation and The Shubert Foundation. Major support for The Joyce has been provided by The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation. The Joyce's presentation of Compagnie Hervé KOUBI is made possible with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels.
Support for The Joyce’s presentation of international dance provided by the R. Britton Fisher and Family Gift for International Dance. Additional support has been provided by the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Endowment Fund to encourage the performances of out-of-town companies.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM HERVÉ KOUBI C E Q U E L E J O U R D O I T À LA N U I T/ W H AT T H E D AY OW ES TO T H E N I G H T Choreography Choreographic Assistant
Hervé KOUBI Fayçal HAMLAT
Dancers BERN GUIBI Badr • BUFFONI Giacomo • ELHILALI Mohammed EL KANFOUDI Youssef • FERRADJI Abdelghani • GRUEV Vladimir GUENNOUN Oualid • MAAMAR Bendehiba • MEHERHERA Nadjib MIJEM Houssni • ROUFI Ayoub • RUIZ Matteo • ZAHID El Houssaini Music
Maxime Bodson/ Hamza El Din for Kronos Quartet/ Jean-Sébastien Bach, Musique Soufi
Lights
Lionel Buzonie
Costumes
Guillaume Gabriel
Duration: 65 mins - no intermission Premiered originally in 2013 and recreated in 2021 for the Belgrad Dance Festival
Produced by Compagnie Hervé KOUBI Co-produced by Ballet of the National Opera of Rhin - National Choreographic Center / National Choreographic Center of Creteil et du Val de Marne - Company Kafig / Palace of the Congress de Loudéac / Cultural Center of Vitré / Ballet Preljocal - National Choreographic Center of Aix en Provence / Ballet Biarritz - Thierry Malandain - National Choreographic Center For Future Booking: Margaret Selby - Selby Artists/Management 262 West 38th Street, Suite 1701 New York, NY 10018 1-212-382-3260 I mselby@selbyartistsmgmt.com Thanks to Bernard Schmidt
ABOUT HERVÉ KOUBI HERVÉ KOUBI (Choreographer). Trained at the “school of dance,” notably with Rosella Hightower, Hervé Koubi decided in 2000 to develop his first choreographic project. It is the tradition, and all the verbal and physical transmission that it carries within it, which captures his interest. A dance that gathers, that unites, that makes links between people. This passion for memory, filiation, and history led him to Algeria in 2009 in search of his own roots. There, he was 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. He was decorated in July 2015 with the Order of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by Brigitte Lefèvre. "If he can make worlds as largely absorbing as the one he conjures here, he is an important addition to dance." – The New York Times, Alastair Macaulay 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. To create the choreographic material by defining the frameworks of an issue where space and time would be the tools, where the danced movement would be the thread, where the choreographic construction would be an entanglement, the better the complex weaving leading to a work comparable to that of a lace: a score. My milestones are thus posed for this transposition, better still this dematerialization of this object called art, into a movement danced by definition ephemeral. A dematerialization which in a paradoxical way gives all the material to the dance. For this work I would like to rely on an historical element in order to find the frames that will inspire the forms, the gestures and then the choreographic phrases, that of one of the supposed origins of the lace, that coming from the Orient and connected to the embroidery. Algeria is not the Orient and yet it is the land of this great artistic and literary current called Orientalism. So it is such a 19th century orientalist who came to Algeria to give life to his dreams of the Orient that I would like to give life to my dreams as a child born in France and who only discovered its true origins and those of his two parents, ethnic Algerians. What The Day Owes To The Night - novel by Yasmina Khadra, Director of the Algerian Cultural Center in Paris - is at that moment and at the same place where my parents left everything as they say. 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."
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NEW YORK PREMIERE
ROMEO & JULIET SUITE BENJAMIN MILLEPIED SERGEI PROKOFIEV L.A. DANCE PROJECT
MARCH 2 – 21
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Romeo & Juliet Suite is made possible with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels and is part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival. Additional support for Romeo & Juliet Suite is provided by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the Harkness Foundation for Dance.
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