Dance Film Screening: Extracts From Phillipe Decouflé’s Kaleïdoskop

Maqamat has started a dance film series highlighting some of the works of prominent choreographers in contemporary dance.
Le P’tit Bal Perdu, Le Verre, Chaconne trace ten years of Phillipe Decouflé’s choreographic explorations with film.

Philippe Decouflé is a French choreographer, dancer, mime artist, and theater director. As a child he traveled extensively around Lebanon and Morocco before learning his skills as a teenager at the Annie Fratellini Ecole du Cirque and the Marceau Mime School. While frequenting Parisienne nightclubs he discovered and was attracted to contemporary dance, and he eventually moved to the Centre National de la Danse Contemporaine in Angers to study under choreographer Alwin Nicolais. After briefly working as a solo dancer, he formed the Découflé Company of Arts in Bagnolet in 1983, moving it to a former electrical works in the Parisienne suburb of Saint-Denis in 1995.