Compagnie Hervé Koubi Explores Ancestry With Street Dance-Inspired ‘What the Day Owes to the Night’ at Eisenhower Auditorium

Penn State’s Eisenhower Auditorium. Photo by Geoff Rushton | StateCollege.com Inspired by medically trained dance artist Hervé Koubi’s discovery of a secret ancestry, the dancers of Compagnie Hervé Koubi will translate the choreographer’s journey with a performance of “What the Day Owes to the Night” at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 22 in Penn State’s Eisenhower Auditorium. Tickets — $48 for adults; $10 for University Park students, and $15 for individuals 18 and younger — are available for purchase online, by calling the Center for the Performing Arts Ticket Center at 814-863-0255 or in person from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays at Eisenhower Auditorium. A $4 fee is applied to online purchases only. The performance is a semi-autobiographical account of Koubi’s discovery of his Algerian ancestry and draws on his travel from France to the North African nation, where he worked with a group of male street dancers in disciplines including martial arts, capoeira and hip-hop. Compagnie Hervé Koubi is a brotherhood of dancers primarily from North Africa, most with backgrounds in street dance. “What the Day Owes to the Night” uses explosive movement to metaphorically retrace Koubi’s family history with a score featuring music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Hamza El...