Alban Richard develops in situ choreographic work. In contemporary art, in situ designates an artistic method or a work that takes into account the site on which it is installed. Working in this type of site-specific approach, Alban Richard devises performances whose driving principles are the creation of movements and/or sounds in continuous cycles over a long period of time. Generally staged on plinths or pedestals, they take place in a variety of settings, whether parks, gardens, heritage places or museum spaces. The public is thus invited to experience and process over time the visual and sensory relationship it has with the works.
Alban Richard
Activations and Performances
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A Sentimental Landscape
Activations and performances
May 17, 2024
Conception : Florentin Ginot & Alban Richard
Created in : Creation 2025
Choreographer and performer Alban Richard and composer and instrumentalist Florentin Ginot have embarked on a collaboration in the fullest sense of the word, co-authoring a piece that bring them together on stage. Borrowing its title from the novel A Sentimental Journey by writer …
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Altered Dance
Activations and performances
from March 4, 2018 to June 21, 2022
Conception : Alban Richard
Generate: to produce something, bring it about as an inevitable consequence, give rise to it, be its source. Altered Dance is a performance in which dancers dispersed throughout space produce movements, sounds, energy, presence. In response to a pre-defined protocol, the generation …
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Somehow Myself Survived the Night
Activations and performances
from November 13, 2014 to March 16, 2022
Conception : Alban Richard
Created in : 13 novembre 2014
Creation place : Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
Body-ghosts, inhabited movements, paroxysms of faces, battlefields, constellations of actions and rhythms, Somehow Myself Survived the Night is a performance-activation that works on the concept of haunting. The dancers’ movements, closely following the music, are constantly interrupted in a random fashion, creating …
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The Weird Sisters’ Project
Activations and performances
from November 7, 2012 to September 21, 2024
Conception : Alban Richard
Created in : du 07 au 10 novembre 2012
Creation place : Abu Dhabi Art Fair (Emirats arabes unis)
The Weird Sisters’ Project is a dance performance. Three men-women, three demons of fate placed on pedestals in the middle of the visitors’ pathway. The performers construct a slow ritual dance inspired by traditional Southeast Asian dances. For two hours, they sculpt …
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Buées
Activations and performances
from May 21, 2016 to March 9, 2021
Conception : Alban Richard
Created in : 21 mai 2016
Creation place : Cluny — Musée national du Moyen-Age de Paris
Buées embarks the spectator on a labyrinthine journey on which many scenes take place together. In this performance, the dancers draw from a repository of medieval iconography to create a dance filled with gestures depicted in stone and painting. The spectator-visitor is invited …
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Combustion
Activations and performances
from February 13, 2014 to May 7, 2017
Conception : Alban Richard with Félix Perdreau
Created in : 13 février 2014
Creation place : Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
A dancing body works for two hours to generate sound and sweat. Friction, compression, heating of the skin and burning of the voice. …