Hervé Robbe
choreographer, dancer

Hervé Robbe was born in Lille in 1961. Trained at Mudra, Maurice Béjart's school in Brussels, while studying architecture, he began his career as a performer with the classical and neoclassical repertoire and took his first steps as a choreographer with the company Le Marietta secret, for twelve years. Then, for thirteen years, Hervé Robbe directed the Centre chorégraphique national du Havre Haute Normandie. In January 2012, he created a new production structure: Travelling&Co. To date, Hervé Robbe has created some fifty choreographic shows, which have been performed in France and abroad. Research into movement and the potential of new choreographic writing has been at the heart of his artistic approach. He has developed pedagogical programs for dance school projects: Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), CNSMD de Lyon, CNDC d'Angers, Coline à Istres, CDC de Toulouse, Ecole nationale supérieure de Marseille, APA Hong Kong, Mito Art Tower Japan. Hervé Robbe has always been involved in the mediation of choreographic culture, with school and amateur audiences, as well as with teachers, mediators, dance professors, and their referent training centers (CEFEDEM, Centre national de la danse in Pantin). His projects have led to collaborations with composers (Costin Miereanu, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Cécile Le Prado, Thierry Blondeau, Frédéric Verrières, Andrea Cera...), visual artists (Richard Deacon, Kozue Naito), video artists (Christian Boustani, Valérie Urrea, Aldo Lee, Vincent Bosc). This work has led to partnerships with art schools, university departments and image centers. It has allowed dance to be present in extended networks: Ircam - Centre Pompidou, Le Fresnoy, MuMa du Havre, Biennale Arts Le Havre, Numéridanse.tv, Fondation Cartier.
- www.herverobbe.com

Jérôme Combier
composer and artistic director of the ensemble Cairn

Jérôme Combier is a composer and the artistic director of the Cairn ensemble, which he founded in 1997. He first studied composition, writing, analysis and orchestration with Hacène Larbi, then at the CNSM in Paris in 1997 (Emmanuel Nunes, Michaël Levinas). In 1998, he participated in the composition session of the Royaumont Foundation and, as part of an exchange, went to Japan for two months. In 2001 Jérôme Combier was awarded the Prix de la Vocation (laureate of the Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation) and in 2006 the Prix Pierre Cardin. In 2001-2002, he studied composition and computer music at Ircam. From 2004 to 2005, Jérôme Combier was a resident at the Académie de France in Rome - Villa Médicis. Jérôme Combier writes for the ensemble Recherche, for the ensemble Intercontemporain within the framework of the Festival d'Automne in Paris. In collaboration with Pierre Nouvel, he created the installation Noir gris for the Beckett exhibition organized by the Georges Pompidou Center. His music is played at the Louvre as part of the cycle Le Louvre invite Pierre Boulez. In 2011, with Pierre Nouvel and Bertrand Couderc, he adapted W.G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz for the stage, which was premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. In 2012, he wrote the opera Terre et cendres with Atiq Rahimi, commissioned by the Opéra de Lyon. He gives masterclasses at the University of Berkeley (San Francisco), at the conservatories of Antwerp, Liège, Lugano, at the Royaumont Abbey, at the Unesp University in Soa Paulo and McGill University in Montreal. Jérôme Combier's music is published by Lemoine and Verlag Neue Musik (Berlin), and recorded by the Cairn ensemble for Motus and Æon. In 2012 he was awarded the New Talent Prize of the SACD and in 2017 the Koussevitzki Foundation Prize, Library of Washington (USA). Since 2012, he has been teaching sound and music creation at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de Paris-Cergy.
- www.ensemble-cairn.com/ensemble/Jerome-Combier