Alban Richard’s productions constitute a repertoire of choreographic pieces of varied aesthetic resolutions. Each is based on a close relationship with a musical work drawn from a wide-ranging repertoire: spanning from medieval to contemporary music, it has featured baroque, electronic, Wagner or Inuit songs. Generally performed live, the musical score instils structures and forms in the dance. The music is shown and the dance is heard.
Alban Richard’s shows are performed in prestigious venues dedicated to dance or music. In France, the Montpellier Dance Festival, the Lyon Dance Biennale, the Théâtre National de Chaillot and the Philharmonie de Paris have all hosted his productions. Abroad, his most iconic pieces have been enjoyed by the audiences of the Julidans Festival in Amsterdam, the Joyce Theater in New York or the Beethovenfest in Bon.
Alban Richard
Shows
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A Sentimental Landscape
Shows
from May 17, 2024 to May 22, 2025
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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Quartet
Shows
le July 18, 2024
Conception : Alban Richard
Created in : Creation 2025
For this new piece, Alban Richard turns his attention to the quartet formula, the addition of four soloists whose scores coexist. This autonomy and juxtaposition are also those of the DJ at his turntables, combining music that was not intended …
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Come Kiss Me Now
Shows
from October 8, 2023 to October 5, 2024
Conception : Alban Richard with Ezra, L’Achéron, Céline Scheen
Created in : November 21 and 22, 2023
Creation place : Caen théâtre
“Come Kiss Me Now takes us through 17th-century English music literature, Robert Burton’s treaty The Anatomy of Melancholy, and New Romantics covers. Five study portraits explore, dissect and meander through melancholic affects and reveal a multiplicity of variations around that humor. …
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3 Works for 12
Shows
from October 8, 2021 to November 30, 2022
Conception : Alban Richard
Created in : 08 et 09 octobre 2021
Creation place : La Filature, scène. nationale de Mulhouse — Festival Musica
“I set out to compose an evening programme made up of three musical works choreographed for a large group of dancers. The musical choices were drawn from the period 1975–1976. The American minimalist wave was already being challenged by young composers …
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Fix Me
Shows
from October 16, 2018 to March 24, 2022
Conception : Alban Richard with Arnaud Rebotini
Created in : 16 et 17 octobre 2018
Creation place : Le Cargö, scène de musiques actuelles, Caen — en attendant Nördik Impakt
A total change of register for Alban Richard. After the medieval ballads of Nombrer les étoiles (Counting the Stars), with Fix Me, the choreographer and artistic director of the CCN de Caen en Normandie is turning his attention to completely …
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Suites dansées
Shows
from March 13, 2015 to May 5, 2023
Conception : Alban Richard and Christophe Rousset (Les Talens Lyriques)
Created in : 13 mars 2015
Creation place : Philharmonie de Paris
Suites dansées, un récital de musique et de danse is a singular object, a different listening experience, a moment of sharing… On stage, Christophe Rousset and Alban Richard, musician and choreographer, give a recital of dance suites from the seventeenth and eighteenth century harpsichord …