Compagnie Hervé Koubi: Sol Invictus

DU staff, faculty, and students can get $15 tickets to select Newman Center Presents performances. Students use promo code DUST, while faculty and staff use DUFS at checkout.Hervé Koubi's thrilling and powerful company is comprised of dancers from France, North Africa, and beyond. Combining contemporary and hip hop dance movements, capoeira, and martial arts with powerful imagery and inspired choreography, the dancers defy gravity. Named after the "invincible sun" deity, Koubi's newest work Sol Invictus upholds love as the guarantor of peace—that despite fracture, communion emerges as humanity's saving grace. The music 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."—Event Details: https://crimsonconnect.du.edu/rsvp?id=2279011 (https://crimsonconnect.du.edu/rsvp?id=2279011)