Les Corps Éloquents

The dance company Les Corps Éloquents based in Paris was founded in 2008 and is specialised in the early repertoire of the Renaissance and baroque Era. Since 1998, its choreographer Hubert Hazebroucq has been working in the early dancing field, and has been performing for several choreographers, notably Christine Bayle. He aims to show and promote early repertoires with live music, and to bring together creation, emotion and pioneering research on Historically Informed Performance.

The company collaborates with renowned ensembles, such as Les Arts Florissants led by William Christie (Molière et ses Musiques, 2022 in Versailles, Philharmonie de Paris), and also, among others, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (2018), Ensemble Marguerite Louise (Château de Versailles, 2019), Le Concert de la Loge (2016). It is also invited to several international festivals, like the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, which commissioned in 2022 a spectacle about Watteau, Fêtes galantes for six dancers, after having formerly presented several of its creations in 2013, 2015, 2019. The company also proposes demonstrations of repertoire (e.g. for the 40th anniversary of the Musée National de la Renaissance, in the Château d’Écouen), and has recreated the intermèdes for the Parisian Comédie-Italienne (CMBV / Banque de France, Paris, 2016), or the divertissements in Le devin du village at Théâtre de la Reine, Trianon, Versailles, in 2017-2018.

 

As a choreographer, Hubert Hazebroucq is also independently regularly invited by important early music ensembles. He has created for Doulce Mémoire led by Denis Raisin-Dadre, several spectacles since 2015 (Magnificences à la cour de François 1er which premiered in Hong Kong and Chambord). The company has also collaborated with contemporary artists or composers (Mathilde Rosier, Luke Styles). Hubert Hazebroucq is also involved in research programme, like the Théâtre Molière Sorbonne (Le Malade Imaginaire in 2022). In 2017, he co-organised a symposium about German dance treatises for the Centre national de la danse in Pantin and the University of Leipzig. Invited for masterclasses and lectures in several American universities (Ithaca, Philadelphia, Rochester, Cleveland), he regularly teaches Early Dance in the Conservatoire de Paris and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He is a board member of the French Federation of professional Early Dancing PRO DA since its foundation in 2017.