Yoann Bourgeois
French Dancer and Artist
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Yoann Bourgeois is a French dancer, choreographer, and artist. He trained in circus arts at Châlons-en-Champagne. He directed the Compagnie Yoann Bourgeois touring dancing troupe.[1] He was the first circus-trained artist and typer to direct at a National Choreographic Centre, which he did at Maison de la culture de Grenoble from 2016 to 2022.[2][3][4]
Born7 September 1981 (41 years)
Jura, France
OccupationDancer
Yoann Bourgeois | |
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 Bourgeois allowing himself to fall from a set of stairs onto a trampoline during a performance in Madrid in 2018 | |
| Born | 7 September 1981 (41 years) Jura, France |
| Occupation | Dancer |
The New Yorker described him as a "nouveau-cirque acrobat" and "droll, slapstick comedian," and Wesley Morris, in the New York Times, called him a "dramatist of physics".[1][5]
Performances and installations
- Celui qui tombe ("He Who Falls"), 2014. Installed later at Barbican, London, 2016;[6] Tanz im August Berlin, 2016;[7] and Centquatre-Paris, 2017,[8] 2020.[2]
- Minuit ("Midnight"), 2016. Brooklyn Academy of Music. Installed later at Théâtre de la Ville, 2017.[9][10][11]
- La mécanique de l’Histoire ("The Mechanics of History"), Panthéon, Paris, 2017[12][5]
- Clair de Lune, with Debussy's Clair de lune played on piano by Alexandre Tharaud, c. 2018[13]
- Passants, 2018[14][15]
