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. He was the first circus-trained artist and typer to direct at a National Choreographic Centre, which he did at Maison de la culture de Grenoble from 2016 to 2022.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".