Alban Richard is also regularly invited by companies and structures for whom he creates or transmits choreographic pieces. He is consulted by ballets, national or international companies, and theatres to design specific pieces dedicated to their ensembles or their venues.
Alban Richard
Commissioned work
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the departed Heart
Commissioned work
from May 23, 2019 to November 18, 2019
Conception : Alban Richard
Created in : 23 et 24 mai 2019
Creation place : Studio Carte Blanche, Bergen (NO)
Echo Flux is a double-bill programme proposed by Carte Blanche, the Norwegian national contemporary dance company, and based on the encounter between a choreographer and a composer. In the first part, the choreographer Alban Richard, is associated with the Franco-Argentinean composer Sebastian Rivas …
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Breathisdancing
Commissioned work
from March 13, 2017 to April 14, 2018
Conception : Alban Richard with Erwan Keravec and Audrey Chen
Created in : 13, 14 et 15 mars 2017
Creation place : La Pop, Paris
Breathisdancing is a response to La Pop’s commission-question: what would an “augmented recital” be? The proposal focuses on breath as a trigger for sounds, movements, affects and emotions. Three body-breather-instrumentalists meet and work from grids of musical, temporal and physical constraints set by …
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HOK – solo pour ensemble
Commissioned work
from March 5, 2015 to March 21, 2017
Conception : Alban Richard
Created in : du 5 au 8 mars 2015
Creation place : Opéra de Nancy
HOK solo pour ensemble is a choreographic piece devised in relation to the Hoketus partition composed by Louis Andriessen. Energetic, brutal and hypnotic, the music of Hoketus seems to have roots in hard rock and Stravinsky. Louis Andriessen speaks of Hoketus …
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The Loss of Your Embrace
Commissioned work
from January 23, 2018 to June 16, 2018
Conception : Alban Richard
Created in : 23 et 24 janvier 2018
Creation place : Le Merlan, scène nationale de Marseille
Performed to a nostalgic but electronic soundtrack, The Loss of your Embrace takes the figure of the embrace as a choreographic motif. Two people hugging, fondling, embracing, kissing, entwining, carrying, holding and bearing each other. When confronted with loss or rupture, how …
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Tricksters
Commissioned work
from November 20, 2014 to October 5, 2017
Conception : Alban Richard
Created in : 20, 21 et 22 novembre 2014
Creation place : Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence
“I intended to start off the 20th anniversary events for Groupe Grenade with an evening shared by three choreographers and myself; when seven choreographers responded to my invitation, I was able to create two programmes danced by the children and young …