AFTER A CHILDHOOD IN LEBANON, YOHANN HEBI DAHER DISCOVERED DANCE IN FRANCE IN 1999. HE STARTED TRAINING IN PARIS WITH BAD TRIP CREW IN 2002, AND HE LATER JOINED THE JUSTE DEBOUT SCHOOL, FROM WHICH HE GRADUATED IN 2013. HIS DIALOGUE, INITIALLY ROOTED IN HIP-HOP, WAS SUBSEQUENTLY ENRICHED THROUGH VARIOUS DISCUSSIONS. HE JOINED JEAN-CHARLES GIL'S BALLET D'EUROPE AND WORKED WITH CHOREOGRAPHERS SUCH AS IBRAHIMA SISSOKO, MARION MOTIN, ALEXANDRA LACROIX, MEHDI KERKOUCHE, SOUHAIL MARCHICHE, MEHDI MEGHARI, AND OTHERS. YOHANN HEBI DAHER LIKES TO DISCUSS, ABOUT AND WITH HIS BODY. TO DO SO, HE WANDERS BETWEEN WORDS AND WRITES THROUGH DANCE, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND GRAPHIC ARTS. HIS EXPERIENCES AND ENCOUNTERS HAVE LED HIM TO BECOME PART OF A GENERATION OF DANCERS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS WITHOUT LABELS, ENJOYING STAGE AS WELL AS BATTLES, OR SHOW BUSINESS AND FASHION SCENES.

 

IN 2015, A RICH ARTISTIC AND HUMAN RELATIONSHIP BEGAN WITH CIE DYPTIK, STARTING WITH THE PERFORMANCE D-CONSTRUCTION. SINCE THEN, NO FEWER THAN FIVE NEW PIECES HAVE BEEN CREATED, WHICH HE HAS BEEN ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN, AND SEVERAL WORLD TOURS HAVE TAKEN PLACE. BEYOND DEVELOPING HIS TECHNIQUE, THIS COLLABORATION HAS LED HIM TO CREATE AND TEACH WITHIN THE COMPANY, WHETHER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SHOWS, THE MANAGEMENT OF NEW DANCERS, OR THROUGH CULTURAL MEDIATION IN SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL AREAS. A RELATIONSHIP OF TRUST THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE PERFORMER AND ALSO TRACES HIS PATH TOWARDS CHOREOGRAPHY.

 

FASCINATED BY NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION, HIS WORK DELVES INTO THE SUBTLE, OFTEN UNSEEN VIOLENCES OF SOCIETAL SYSTEMS. PICTURING THE LIMITS OF CUSTOMS HE SEEKS TO OBSERVE THE UNSUSPECTED BUT NO LESS GREAT RESPONSIBILITY THAT WE BEAR IN OUR INTERACTIONS. THE IMPACT, INFLUENCE, AND REACH OF GESTURES AND WORDS ON OUR TRAJECTORIES. ALSO A FILMMAKER, YOHANN HEBI DAHER LOVES HOW OUR PHYSIQUES MEET IN THE COMPLEXITY OF THIS SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SYSTEM, AND IT IS THIS OBSERVATION, LIKE THE DIVERSITY OF HIS ENCOUNTERS, THAT ENRICHES A VISION, A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH, A VIRTUOUS AND CONSTANTLY EVOLVING DISCUSSION.