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Choreographer, dancer, mime artist and director

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Choreographer: Philippe Decoufle

Archive listings for Philippe Decoufle Company DCA

Work type: Dance or ballet.

Contact - T1759489912

Philippe Decoufle is a creator of dreamlike performances, who finds inspiration in both high and popular culture and who challenges expectations with the use of the burlesque and the bizarre. With Contact, he creates a musical and visual comedy, a tale of our human - and sometimes superhuman - passions. As an artist trained in mime, bodily expression, the circus and dance by the likes of Isaac Alvarez, Annie Fratellini, Merce Cunningham and Alwin Nikolais, directing a musical is a natural conclusion for Decoufle. Decoufle rewrites what the musical means for him, borrowing from cabarets, musicals and even flirting with Bollywood. Musical is simultaneously the subject, the source material, the dramaturgical structure, and the form. The score for this new endeavour has been created by Nosfell and Pierre Le Bourgeois, an opera from another world. In Contact, we witness the culmination of Decoufle's trademark cinematographic prowess and his fragmented sense of trickery and illusion, expressed through an extraordinary troupe of sixteen dancers, actors, singers and musicians. UK Premiere.
16 Jun 15 to 18 Jun 15Sadler's Wells Theatre, Inner London :: V224
listing details L01681437385

Panorama - T1021282080

Panorama draws on his company?s extensive repertoire, dating back to 1983 with Vague Cafe.
2 Nov 12 to 4 Nov 12Sadler's Wells Theatre, Inner London :: V224
listing details L709746171

Sombrero - T01984597181

Decoufle's latest work Sombrero - in which the choreographer himself dances - sees him playing with images of light and shadow, with the intense heat of the sun employed as a central theme. Decoufle creates captivating and magical images using a blend of both old-fashioned theatricality and high-tech video trickery. Sombrero is a funny, entertaining, moving and magical experience that looks set to be a real treat for Decoufle fans and newcomers alike.
4 Jul 07 to 8 Jul 07Sadler's Wells Theatre, Inner London :: V224
listing details L0831782835

The Doubt Within Me - T01387537061

After twenty years of group work, Philippe Decoufle embarks upon a daring and revealing solo. Using an array of screens and cameras, Decoufle ensnares the audience with images and shadows which can interact in an infinite number of ways. As the mainspring of these projections, he takes the hand of his virtual partner who, resembling him like a brother, creates an exhilarating and dizzying number of reflections. Decoufle seeks to escape an ordinary world by generating a universe as excessive as his imagination.
28 Oct 04 to 30 Oct 04The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240
listing details L01339931995
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