Alban Richard

Already as a student of music and literature, Alban Richard worked with such choreographers as Karine Saporta at CCN de Caen, Christian Bourigault, Christine Gaigg, Odile Duboc, Olga de Soto and Rosalind Crisp. After creating a few choreographies of his own, he and a few of his closest colleagues founded the group L’Ensemble l’Abrupt in 2000. He received the Young Talent in Choreography Award (Jeune Talent chorégraphique) from the SACD. He regularly creates productions for prestigious events, among them the festival Mouvements d’Automne de Paris, the festival Faits d’Hiver (Paris), les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Vif du Sujet d’Avignon, l’IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et coordination acoustique / Musique), Toronto Dance Theater and Montpellier Danse. He also occasionally co-works with the National Centre of Dance in Paris (Centre national de la danse de Paris). His precise choreographic notations reveal a clear development and structure of his work in which a number of scores merge: dance score that takes into account diverse states of the body, music score including the rhythmical aspects and the score of light. He makes all of them part of one universal concept. His style is unique and very much respected, among other things also for his great knowledge of impediments in dance and his great capacity of coping with them.