Philippe Decouflé

Philippe Decouflé (born 22 October 1961) is a French choreographer, dancer, mime artist, and theatre director.

[1] As a child he travelled extensively around Lebanon and Morocco before learning his skills as a teenager at the Annie Fratellini École du Cirque and the Marceau Mime School.

[2] While frequenting Parisienne nightclubs he discovered and was attracted to contemporary dance, and he eventually moved to the Centre National de la Danse Contemporaine in Angers to study under choreographer Alwin Nicolais.

[3] He has worked for the Lyon Opera Ballet, and he choreographed the music video for New Order's "True Faith" and Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy".

[1] On the back of these successes, he was selected to choreograph the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1992 Winter Olympics in front of a global television audience of over two billion people,[1] the 50th anniversary Cannes Film Festival in 1997,[1] and a parade for the 2007 Rugby Union World Cup in Saint-Denis in Paris.