# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philippe-decoufle
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:39:43.559Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philippe-decoufle"
name: "Philippe Decouflé"
slug: "philippe-decoufle"
description: "Philippe Decouflé is a French choreographer, dancer, mime artist, and theatre director. As a child he travelled extensively around Lebanon and Morocco before learning his skills as a teenager at the Annie Fratellini École du Cirque and the Marceau Mime School. While frequenting Parisienne nightclubs he discovered and was attracted to contemporary dance, and he eventually moved to the Centre National de la Danse Contemporaine in Angers to study under choreographer Alwin Nicolais. After briefly working as a solo dancer, he formed the Découflé Company of Arts in Bagnolet in 1983, moving it to a former electrical works in the Parisienne suburb of Saint-Denis in 1995."
tagline: "Theatre director, dancer, choreographer, writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DECOUFLE_Philippe-24x30-2006b.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1961-10-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.437728
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/philippe.decoufle"
    handle:    "philippe.decoufle"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0213988/"
    handle:    "nm0213988"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.cie-dca.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فيليپ ديكوفل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Decoufl%C3%A9"
    title: "Philippe Decouflé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Decoufl%C3%A9"
    title: "Philippe Decouflé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Decoufl%C3%A9"
    title: "Philippe Decouflé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Decoufl%C3%A9"
    title: "Philippe Decouflé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "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"
    title: "フィリップ・ドゥクフレ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Decoufl%C3%A9"
    title: "Philippe Decouflé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Decoufl%C3%A9"
    title: "Philippe Decouflé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Decoufl%C3%A9"
    title: "Philippe Decouflé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BF_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%84%D0%BB%D0%B5"
    title: "Филип Декуфле"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%B2%E7%AB%8B%E6%99%AE%E5%BE%B7%E5%BA%93%E5%BC%97%E5%88%97"
    title: "菲立普德库弗列"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3089610"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1055138"
    title: "Philippe Decouflé"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump