An enigmatic and stupefying temporality made up of repeated attempts, of bodies who are always late, of intermissions…
The desire is to form a ritual: from trance to statuary…
Dissolved, blurry postures incessantly passing from saint to sultry will petrify in a dramatic crescendo…
A solidification of the form of these two bodies caught in a strangling bottleneck…
The work with the body was carried out from positions inspired by the iconography of the Salpêtrière hospital asylum’s hysterical patients and saints in ecstasy in Baroque paintings and sculptures. These postures, reinvented by the dancers, have been placed in a very constrained space…
The choreographic process is a composition revolving around the canon: canon by addition, by subtraction, canon by contrary movement, etc. …
Each dancer works along the same choreographic line.
There is therefore the choice of a horizontal writing around rhythmic variations.
Luisance : a singular and suffocated luminescence, a pale gilt… of which we know no longer whether it recalls a night or a day… an absorbed light…

Source : CCN Caen, Normandy

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An enigmatic and stupefying temporality made up of repeated attempts, of bodies who are always late, of intermissions…

The desire is to form a ritual: from trance to statuary… 

Dissolved, blurry postures incessantly passing from saint to sultry will petrify in a dramatic crescendo…

A solidification of the form of these two bodies caught in a strangling bottleneck…

The work with the body was carried out from positions inspired by the iconography of the Salpêtrière hospital asylum’s hysterical patients and saints in ecstasy in Baroque paintings and sculptures. These postures, reinvented by the dancers, have been placed in a very constrained space…

The choreographic process is a composition revolving around the canon: canon by addition, by subtraction, canon by contrary movement, etc. …

Each dancer works along the same choreographic line.

There is therefore the choice of a horizontal writing around rhythmic variations.

Luisance : a singular and suffocated luminescence, a pale gilt… of which we know no longer whether it recalls a night or a day… an absorbed light…

Alban Richard discovered contemporary dance while he was pursuing literary and musical studies. From the late 1990s, he worked for various choreographers such as Odile Duboc, Olga de Soto and Rosalind Crisp.

In 2000, Alban Richard founded Ensemble l'Abrupt for which he created about thirty very different pieces, always in close interaction with a musical work whose writing and formal structure he questioned. Consequently, each creation opens up new research and a new performance style, setting itself apart from the previous one. The way he develops his shows, using restricted improvisations to devise the work directly on stage, encourages the performers to become creators of their own dance.

Alban Richard has collaborated with the Alla francesca ensemble, Les Talens Lyriques, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, the Ensemble intercontemporain, IRCAM and the Cairn, Instant Donné and Alternance ensembles, as well as with composers Arnaud Rebotini, Sebastian Rivas, Erwan Keravec, Jérôme Combier, Laurent Perrier, Raphaël Cendo, Robin Leduc, Paul Clift, Wen Liu and Matthew Barnson.

A prolific choreographer, Alban Richard is regularly invited by ballets and companies, both internationally (Canada, Lithuania, Norway) and in France, to create commissioned works.

Since 2015 he has been artistic director of the centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, with a project based on both his practice as an author and on connecting with the territory and its inhabitants.

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Having picked up a passion for the audiovisual at an early age from his two brothers, Nicolas Simon quickly developed a love of cinema and began making short films in his teenage years. He studied at the audiovisual ESRA school in Rennes, where he made two 16mm short films. In 2004, he met Emmanuelle Vo-Din, who introduced him to the world of contemporary dance. 

In 2008 he completed Making Rainbow, a documentary retracing the five months over which the first edition of the performance Rainbow was created. He then co-directed Le Grand Éléphant - L’Aventure des Constructeurs, filmed over two years in the workshop of La Machine as they designed and built the Grand Elephant of Île de Nantes: a giant, animatronic elephant. Alongside regular collaborations with several choreographers, including, Alban Richard, Margot Dorléans, Sylvain Riéjou, Daniel Dobbels as well as the companies Le Pôle and PJPP, Nicolas Simon has made several documentaries, including Les Constructeurs d’Éole and Je me souviens.

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