Sol Invictus

Norrlandsoperan

Combining contemporary and urban dance movements, capoeira, and martial arts with powerful imagery and inspired choreography, dancers defy gravity in a unique and original performance. Inspired by Algerian author Yasmina Khadra’s novel, What the Day Owes to the Night, choreographer Hervé Koubi traces his 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 street dance 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. 

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Compagnie Hervé KOUBI

The Music Center at Strathmore

Led by the imaginative choreographer Hervé Koubi, Compagnie Hervé KOUBI returns to New York with the mesmerizingly kinetic Sol Invictus. 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

The Joyce Theater

Hervé Koubi describes SOL INVICTUS in his working notes as follows: The universe, the passage of the seasons, how do we fit into these vast, swirling, changing spaces? This space, connected to the meaning of our lives, is limited by its beginning and its end; our fate is equal within it, and that is why—connected to and confronted with it—I dance.

Hervé Koubi

Events

Upcoming events

28 - 30 May, 2026

The Unconquered Sun · Theater Bonn

Past events

Dec 6, 2025

Sol Invictus · Norrlandsoperan

Oct 30, 2025

Compagnie Hervé KOUBI · Strathmore

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