What the day owes to the night (Ce que le jour doit à la nuit)
April 7 & 8, 2017; 8pm
Vancouver Playhouse
Speaking of Dance Pre-show talk: 7:15 pm, upper lobby with Hervé Koubi (Artistic Director, Compagnie Hervé KOUBI) & Kaija Pepper (Editor, Dance International Magazine)
Twelve Algerian and Burkina Faso dancers, mostly coming from street dance and hip-hop, perform in this contemporary dance work that takes its name from an eponymous 2008 novel by Algerian author Yasmina Khadra. Through his dancers, choreographer Hervé Koubi explores his own Algerian origins and journey in a piece that combines capoeira, martial arts, urban and contemporary dance with evocative Islamic imagery
