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Yoann Bourgeois

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]

Yoann Bourgeois

7 September 1981 (41 years)

Jura, France

French

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]

Celui qui tombe ("He Who Falls"), 2014. Installed later at , London, 2016;[6] Tanz im August Berlin, 2016;[7] and Centquatre-Paris, 2017,[8] 2020.[2]

Barbican

Minuit ("Midnight"), 2016. . Installed later at Théâtre de la Ville, 2017.[9][10][11]

Brooklyn Academy of Music

La mécanique de l’Histoire ("The Mechanics of History"), , Paris, 2017[12][5]

Panthéon

Clair de Lune, with played on piano by Alexandre Tharaud, c. 2018[13]

Debussy's Clair de lune

Passants, 2018[15]

[14]

Controversy[edit]

In 2021, he was accused of plagiarism.[16][17]

on Instagram

Yoann Bourgeois

https://www.youtube.com/@yoannbourgeois5337