Yoann Bourgeois

Yoann Bourgeois is a French dancer, choreographer, and artist. He trained in circus arts at Châlons-en-Champagne. He directed the Compagnie Yoann Bourgeois touring dancing troupe.

The New Yorker described him as a "nouveau-cirque acrobat" and "droll, slapstick comedian," and Wesley Morris, in the New York Times, called him a "dramatist of physics". Tanz im August Berlin, 2016; and Centquatre-Paris, 2017, 2020. Minuit ("Midnight"), 2016. Brooklyn Academy of Music. Installed later at Théâtre de la Ville, 2017. La mécanique de l’Histoire ("The Mechanics of History"), Panthéon, Paris, 2017 Clair de Lune, with Debussy's Clair de lune played on piano by Alexandre Tharaud, c. 2018 Passants, 2018

Controversy In 2021, he was accused of plagiarising the work of multiple theatre artists throughout his career. He later denied that he plagiarised, stating ‘[what] is original is the treatment and the creative process’.