Hervé Robbe

For over thirty years, Hervé Robbe has had the good fortune to be both an actor in and a curious witness to the creative explosion of dance. Alongside his studies in architecture, he trained mainly at Mudra, Maurice Béjart’s school in Brussels.

His career as a performer began by dancing the classical and neo-classical repertoire. He has incorporated a choreographic heritage that he has been able to nourish, question and even deconstruct by collaborating with the creations and new approaches of various contemporary choreographers of the 1980s.

He began producing choreography in 1987, in a context that took a fresh look at dance and authorised new gestures and new representations of the body. His artistic approach has been nourished by and questioned the physical and aesthetic issues of modernity and post-modernity in dance, and has been enriched by cultural confrontations during exchange visits and creations, particularly in the United States and Japan.

His first steps as a choreographer were with the company Le Marietta Secret.

Twelve years of creation within this structure enabled his to develop and refine the singularity of his artistic approach. It’s a maturation that has blossomed from the outset in the desire for interdisciplinary dialogue. His sensitivity to architecture and the plastic arts and his desire to imagine a sensitive and innovative relationship with music have motivated numerous collaborations with new authors. His great interest in the history of the arts and its forms has also stimulated his desire to confront works from our musical heritage (Mozart, Beethoven, Schoenberg, Berg, Stravinsky), and to imagine, in this stylistic and referential coexistence, an original dialogue with his choreographic language.

Then, for 13 years, he was artistic director of the Centre Chorégraphique National du Havre Haute-Normandie.

He takes a very positive view of all the projects carried out within this structure, in collaboration with a whole team. Numerous artistic experiments and exchanges have been shared with individuals, audiences, artists and partners. These projects have been developed in harmony with the local area, with a view to integrating the art of choreography and its culture. They have nurtured her artistic approach, as well as her thoughts and convictions on the need to pass on knowledge with curiosity and openness.

In January 2012, he decided to leave this institution and continue his adventure as an artist and teacher within a new production structure called TRAVELLING & CO.

To date, he has created some fifty choreographic shows, which have been performed throughout France and abroad.