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Philippe Decouflé is a Actor and Choreographer French born on 22 october 1961 at Paris (France)
Philippe Decouflé (born Neuilly-sur-Seine, October 22, 1961) is a French choreographer, dancer, mime artist, and theatre director. As a child he travelled 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.
He has worked for the Lyon Opera Ballet, and choreographed the music video for New Order's "True Faith" and Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy". The former won the "Best Music Video" prize at the 1988 BRIT Awards, while his advertisement for Polaroid won a "Silver Lion" prize at the 1989 Venice Film Festival. On the back of these successes, he was selected to choreograph the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1992 Winter Olympics in front of a global television audience of over two billion people, the 50th anniversary Cannes Film Festival in 1997, and a parade for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in Saint-Denis in Paris.
Decouflé is also the writer and director of the Cirque du Soleil show Iris.
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Philippe Decouflé
He has worked for the Lyon Opera Ballet, and choreographed the music video for New Order's "True Faith" and Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy". The former won the "Best Music Video" prize at the 1988 BRIT Awards, while his advertisement for Polaroid won a "Silver Lion" prize at the 1989 Venice Film Festival. On the back of these successes, he was selected to choreograph the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1992 Winter Olympics in front of a global television audience of over two billion people, the 50th anniversary Cannes Film Festival in 1997, and a parade for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in Saint-Denis in Paris.
Decouflé is also the writer and director of the Cirque du Soleil show Iris.
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Crazy Horse (2011)
, 2h14Directed by Frederick Wiseman
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Actors Philippe Decouflé, Philippe Katerine
Roles Himself
Rating64%
Entrez dans les coulisses du temple mondial de la sensualité, le Crazy Horse...Pour son 39e film, Frederick Wiseman lève le rideau d'une troisième institution française après la Comédie Française et le Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris.Au coeur du plus avant-gardiste des cabarets parisiens, la caméra du documentariste américain suit le metteur en scène Philippe Decouflé et Ali Mahdavi, directeur artistique, qui réinventent les numéros de la célèbre revue de danseuses nues.Découvrez la vie du Crazy, des répétitions aux représentations publiques...
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, 1h55Directed by Bruno Dumont
Origin France
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Jeanne d'Arc, Musical films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France
Roles Choreographer
Rating59%
L'action se situe à proximité du petit village lorrain de Domrémy, dans le second quart du XV siècle, alors que la guerre de Cent Ans, opposant Anglais et Bourguignons d'un côté et Français de l'autre, fait rage dans le royaume de France. Elle décrit la germination et l'éclosion d'une petite paysanne tourmentée par la peur et le doute, en une adolescente affermie, décidée, volontaire et convaincue de l'inéluctabilité de sa mission divine.