Philippe Decouflé

Philippe Decouflé is the kind of artist I wish more people outside France knew. A choreographer, dancer, mime and theatre director, he's perhaps most famous for staging the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics, which the Silver Olympic Order here confirms. What draws me in is that childhood spent traveling Lebanon and Morocco before training at a circus school and the Marceau mime school. That blend of circus, mime and dance explains the playful, visually inventive spectacle his work is known for. The state honors he's collected, including Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, tell me France treasures him as a national cultural figure.

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Name (English)

Philippe Decouflé

Name (Japanese)

フィリップ・ドゥクフレ

Reading

ふぃりっぷ・どぅくふれ

Born

October 22, 1961 (age 64)

Origin

Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Occupation

theatre director / choreographer / film director / dancer / mime artist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Ox

Awards & achievements

• 2015 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
• 1998 Knight of the National Order of Merit
• 1992 Silver Olympic Order

• Official sitehttps://www.cie-dca.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20Decoufl%C3%A9
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%82%A5%E3%82%AF%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3089610

Tags

• Hauts-de-Seine
• theatre director
• choreographer
• film director

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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