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. 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.
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".

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Performances and installations

Celui qui tombe, 2014. Installed later at Barbican, London, 2016; Tanz im August Berlin, 2016; and Centquatre-Paris, 2017, 2020.Minuit, 2016. Brooklyn Academy of Music. Installed later at Théâtre de la Ville, 2017.La mécanique de l’Histoire, Panthéon, Paris, 2017

Clair de Lune, with Debussy's Clair de lune played on piano by Alexandre Tharaud, c. 2018Passants, 2018

Controversy

In 2021, he was accused of plagiarising the work of multiple theatre artists throughout his career. He later denied that he plagiarised, stating ‘ is original is the treatment and the creative process’.