Philippe Decouflé is a French dancer and choreographer of contemporary dance. popular choreographer, became famous for staging the opening and closing ceremonies of the Albertville Olympics in 1992, he was an eclectic and inventive dance company, meeting a great success with the public since the 1990s . Trained in many disciplines such as mime with Isaac Alvarez or circus with Annie Fratellini, he then worked with Merce Cunningham and Alwin Nikolais, including the National contemporary dance Center of Angers after being flunked the entrance audition the Mudra School Béjart.De back in France, he created his own company in 1983 in Bagnolet: DCA company (Diversity Fellowship, Agility) and wins the same year the first choreography prize in Bagnolet The Ministry of Culture Award. He has directed music videos, including the group New Order, as well as many prominent advertisements 1980s, including the famous commercial for Polaroid, which won a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989. The visual appearance, shifted and even playful or burlesque of her dance, is an important component of his style, he brings to his choreographies a human side, craft, poétique.En 1989 he was chosen to host several shows, including dance of hooves when Parade of the bicentenary of the French Revolution in Paris. On the strength of this success, Philippe Decouflé created in 1992 the highly acclaimed staging of the opening and closing festivities of the Olympic Games in Albertville with costume designer Philippe Guillotel, which will give him an international reputation. The DCA company has moved to the Chaufferie in Saint-Denis in an old factory rehabilitated for this purpose, which since then is its place of residence and sometimes representations.