Choreographer Hervé KOUBI – Cie Hervé KOUBI/ France
With 18 dancers
17 and 18 december 2026 at GRRRANIT Scène nationale - Belfort in France
"A manifesto for life. Sol Invictus will be Luminous, Generous and Universal. Always halfway between hip-hop physicality and classic elevation Sol Invictus will be a declaration of love, my declaration of love to dance, to its past, to its present, and to its future."
Celebrating the links that unite us, those of life entangled in the cycle of the seasons. To be reborn and then rediscover childhood, to become again this child amazed by the discovery of the world and the mystery of Life.
Oh yes, dancing like a child. Dizzying with the place of the living in the immensity of the universe, with our place. Maybe it is just only about dancing, but dance allows this, beyond words, to celebrate life and bring us together.
But what is “dancing together”? The answer remains a mystery to me. What I do know, however, is that I want to talk about love, mutual help, solidarity, light and bonds, the one that unites us to life. I call on stage, a whole world and its smiles, a liberated spelling in the service of a writing that goes beyond borders, aesthetics, languages and styles. There will also be rounds and spirals.
Those who raise each one of us thanks to the others, thanks to the Other. So; here we are…maybe. I want to make the stage a playground of all possibilities to welcome a dance that laughs, a dance that comes from the heart, from the mouth, from the hips, from the feet on a burning floor.
There is an emergency, that of gathering yes but also of arousing hope. So, I choose. It will be a rite, a rite that we will invent at each performance to celebrate that we are alive. Stanley Kubrick said " The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment.
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. And since for me loving and dancing are indeed part of the same indivisible whole that is life, I would like Sol Invictus to be a spark. A spark as brilliant as a life filled with the joy of dancing...together.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Hervé KOUBI
ASSISTANT: Fayçal HAMLAT
DANCERS: Francesca BAZZUCCHI, Badr BENR GUIBI, Joy Isabella BROWN, Denis CHERNYKH, Samuel DA SILVEIRA LIMA, Youssef EL KANFOUDI, Abdelghani FERRADJI, Elder Matheus FREITAS FERNANDES OLIVEIRA, Oualid GUENNOUN, Hsuan-Hung HSU, Pavel KRUPA, Nadjib MEHERHERA, Ismail OUBBAJADDI, Ediomar PINHEIRO DE QUEIROZ, Matteo RUIZ, Allan SOBRAL DOS SANTOS, Karn STEINER.
MUSIC: Mikael KARLSSON / Maxime BODSON / Steve REICH / Ludwig Van BEETHOVEN
ARRANGEMENTS : Guillaume GABRIEL
LIGHT : Lionel BUZONIE
COSTUMES : Guillaume GABRIEL
ARTISTIC ADVISOR: Bérengère ALFORT
EXTERNAL ADVISORS: Odile COUGOULE – Mohamed ZEROUALI
DURATION : 1h10
AGE : from 7
PRODUCTION : Compagnie Hervé KOUBI Coproduction : Ballets de Monte-Carlo - direction Jean-Christophe Maillot / Le GRRRANIT - Scène Nationale de Belfort / La Barcarolle - Scène conventionnée de Saint-Omer / L’Empreinte - Scène Nationale Brive -Tulle / Centre Chorégraphique National de Biarritz - Thierry Malandain / BCMO Pole chorégraphique de Calais / Théâtre de Grasse - Scène conventionnée d’intérêt National / Ville de Cannes / OARA – résidences de création Avec le soutien de L’Esplanade du Lac de Divonne-les bains / Conservatoire de Calais / Le Channel Scène Nationale de Calais / SPEDIDAM SITE WEB
TEASER 1 https://vimeo.com/865163395
CONTACT : Guillaume GABRIEL - guiher19@gmail.com – 0033 6 51 20 37 10
Cover photo: (c) DR : Melanie Lhote
