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Magician of the stage and provocateur, Philippe Decouflé still amazes people with Sombreros, an artistic extravagance less intricate than usual but as exhilarating and spectacular. The extremely gifted craftsman of the Olympic Games of Albertville, with his unlimited choreographic imagination, has matured a lot. Without renouncing to the fundamental bases of his aesthetics and his artistic identity, which is an extravagant assortment of circus, comics, screened images and playful dance; he offers, with Sombreros, a choreographed tribute to the minimalist scenography inspired by the Bauhaus, Murnau’s cinema, the jazz singer Al Johnson, Tex Avery and western. Decouflé works, with a successful reflection on shadow and light, on the rules of optics and motion and on space geometry. It is gripping, crazy and astounding. The incredible graphic variation, built on a set of dualities, echoes, contrasts, oppositions and comedy of repetition, communicates with a brilliant and funny set of light, transparence and shadow, with the help of video. Joyfully kitsch, Sombreros is a nice, poetic and mysterious performance on a Hawaiian beach.

“Sombreros is a must-see. In this great fresco on shadow and light, led by Christophe Salengro, his partner Olivier Simola ant the jewel Alexandra Naudet, Philippe Decouflé becomes a master of metamorphoses and delights.” Ariane Bavelier - Le Figaro