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Compagnie Hervé KOUBI: Sol Invictus

  • Performing Arts Center San Luis Obispo - Harold Miossi Hall 1 Grand Avenue San Luis Obispo, CA, 93405 United States (map)

TUE, JAN 27 | 7:30PM | HAROLD MIOSSI HALL | $47-71

Absolutely unique and utterly original, this fearless, powerful company reigns from France, Algeria, and beyond. Combining contemporary and urban dance movements, capoeira, and martial arts with powerful imagery and inspired choreography, the dancers defy gravity. Inspired by Algerian author Yasmina Khadra’s novel,  What The Day Owes To The Night traces Koubi’s own personal lineage as a French-Algerian choreographer. After learning about his family’s Algerian roots, Koubi returned to the country of his ancestors to collaborate with streetdance performers from across the Mediterranean basin. What emerged is “a creation of poetic beauty” (The New York Times), a meditative yet strikingly athletic work about the ties that bind us.

Named after the “invincible sun” deity, the work upholds love as the guarantor of peace, that despite fracture, communion emerges as humanity’s saving grace. The music score includes a composition by Swedish composer Mikael Karlsson, with excerpts by Steve Reich and digital composer Maxime Bodson. “I want to talk about light, solidarity, and those bonds that unite us,” says Koubi. “Here, the sun and the dance will emerge victorious.”


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Single Tickets go on sale MONDAY, JULY 28TH.

Cal Poly Student Tickets Available - Visit Cal Poly Ticket Office to Purchase.


They Fly. They Spin. They Change How You See the Amazing.
— The New York Times

SPONSORED BY

Richard & Catherine Luckett
in memory of Kristin Rawlinson

Carol MacCurdy & Tom Nuckols

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