"My Name is Shingo" is the new musical staged by Philippe Decouflé. The manga by Kazuo Umezu will inspire a new show to be seen in Japan from December 2nd, 2016 !
For the “International Weekend at the Cité” festival, which takes place each year over the entire Cité Internationale campus in Paris, DCA requisitioned the Belgium and Luxembourg Pavilion for Entrée Interdite (No Entry) and, in the process, launched Flushmup, a dance posted online that everyone is invited to learn and then practice with the performers from the real show.
Although they have been in contact since 1992, it was only in 2011 that Philippe Decouflé and the Cirque du Soleil finally formalized their collaboration. A permanent performance, on the theme of cinema, is presented at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. Philippe is bringing together his loyal accomplices and is working for the first time with Danny Elfman, Tim Burton’s favorite composer, on this phantasmagorical poem, a real journey through the universe and history of cinema…
During the 1998 Football World Cup, acting on an initiative of the City of Saint-Denis, where is company is located, DCA set up a circus in an empty lot near the housing estates of Bel Air and Franc-Moisin. Around the big top, where each evening a new version ofTriton (created in 1990) was performed, the company built a bunch of small shacks, in the style of carnival side shows from ages past…
After Contact (2014), Philippe Decouflé continues with its desire to produce a musical and joins again Le Cirque du Soleil (after Iris in 2011). The show gathers the specific elements of Broadway productions (a classical narrative approch based on a love story, live musicians…) but signed by Le Cirque du Soleil. At Broadway's Lyric Theatre (213 West 42nd Street) on 2 June 2016, following previews from 16 April.
Presented at the Opéra Comique (Paris), Tutti is a fantasy designed for the Dance Research Group of the Paris Opera House. On stage, the actors undergo a strange transformation to become musical instruments...
This year, the Compagnie DCA took over the Rennes Fine Arts Museum. With twelve dancers and actors and musicians Nosfell et Pierre Lebourgeois, the company tried out some new and spectacular experiments.
In 2008, the legendary Parisian cabaret Crazy Horse, created by Alain Bernardin, called on Philippe Decouflé to design a new permanent show. A year later, this collaboration gave rise to Désirs, still showing.
Following the opening of the National Centre of Stage Costumes and Stage Design in Moulins-sur-Allier, the Parc de la Villette asked Philippe Decouflé to direct a fashion show with amateurs exhibiting costumes from the stockroom of the Comédie-Française and the Paris National Opera, and turning the spotlight on the stage costume professions.
