by Anton Chekhov In order to talk about his Algerian origins, French-born choreographer Hervé Koubi chooses Dance. As the young boy, an ordinary hero from the eponymous novel by Yasmina Khadra, Hervé Koubi embarks as an explorer of his own history. Twelve Algerian and Birkina Faso dancers, mostly coming from street dance, from hip-hop, have furnished the necessary effort for this long-term project. Fed by Orientalist paintings, the stone filigree of Islamic architecture, Koubi traces his own path, made of entanglements, a complex weave. “Ce que le jour doit à la nuit” is a story about roots, bonds, time, humanity.

“It is like an orientalist of the 19th century came to Algeria to give life to his dreams of the Orient; I would like to give life to my dreams as a child born in France, and who discovered belatedly his true origins and those of his parents, Algerians from birth.” (Hervé Koubi)