DCA
Artistic direction: Philippe Decouflé
Creation: 1983
Having being initiated to dance by Isaac Alvarez and the Circus Academy of Annie Fratellini, Philippe Decouflé created his Company, DCA (sometimes for Decouflé’s Company for the Arts sometimes for “Défense Contre Avion”) in 1983 after a first career as a dancer (Régine Chopinot, Alwin Nikolais). The company’s first production, “Vague café”, met an immediate and large success with both the public and the professionals. Philippe Decouflé then created several productions whose titles bore evidence of his interest for the world of comics and to its humour: with “Surprises”, “Fraîcheur limite”, “Soupière de luxe”, “Tranche de cake”, Decouflé’s fame spread in France and throughout
In 1986, the success of “Codex” confirmed the blossoming of the Company and contributed to defining a more and more singular artistic identity. “Codex was” inspired from an illustrated encyclopaedia, drawn at the end of the 1970s by a young Italian, Luigi Seraphini: the fantastic animals, the imaginary plants and the living vegetables were to inspire Decouflé in the years to come.
Meanwhile, Decouflé became more and more interested in video. When DCA was first funded he directed a few dance videos ”La voix des légumes”, “Jump”; a few years later, he wrote and directed a short film ”Caramba” as well as music videos’ for New Order “True Faith” – or the Fine Young Cannibals “She Drives Me Crazy”.
Source: the company DCA ‘s website
