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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A dan­cing body works for two hours to gen­er­ate sound and sweat. Fric­tion, com­pres­sion, heat­ing of the skin and burn­ing of the voice. …