Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie.
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FRANÇOIS CHAIGNAUD IS APPOINTED AS DIRECTOR OF THE CCN CAEN IN NORMANDIE STARTING JANUARY 1st, 2026

Quartet

Creation 2025

Shows

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 to coex­ist. In a cre­ation irrig­ated by the velo­city and dynam­ism of DJing, Alban Richard works on remix­ing ges­tures and move­ments: tak­ing up, quot­ing, past­ing, divert­ing, accel­er­at­ing, slow­ing down, repeat­ing, deform­ing into scratches, syn­co­pat­ing into micro-cuts. These are tools that the cho­reo­graph­er will apply to the per­formers’ bod­ies and voices, asso­ci­at­ing them with an aes­thet­ic of stut­ter­ing and focus­ing not on phras­ing but on the loop or micro-loop. At stake is the notion of a highly inhab­ited body, tra­versed by con­trary states, like those of people under the influ­ence of drugs inter­viewed by Amer­ic­an pho­to­graph­er Mark Laita. With Quar­tet, Alban Richard sees his cho­reo­graph­ic com­pos­i­tion as cine­mat­ic mont­age, guided by sequen­cing tech­niques and attent­ive to ques­tions of tem­por­al sequences and breaks. A work set in an indis­tinct but troubled time, where the sceno­graphy is inspired by the stage dir­ec­tions of Hein­er Müller’s Quar­tett (1980): “A salon from before the French Revolu­tion. A bunker after the Third World War”.

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Cast

Concept-cho­reo­graphy-com­pos­i­tion
Alban Richard

Cre­ation and performance
Chi­hiro Araki, Anthony Bar­reri, Zoé Lecor­gne, Aure Wachter

Assist­ant choreographer
Daph­né Mauger

Music
Simo Cell

Sound design
Vanessa Court

Light design
Nic­olas Bordes

Cos­tumes
Fanny Brouste

Assist­ant
Yolène Guais

Vocal and Eng­lish coach
Deborah Len­nie

Pro­duced by the Centre cho­ré­gra­phique natio­nal de Caen en Normandie
Co-pro­duc­tion La Cité musi­cale-Metz (in progress)

Where and when

Tour

December 2025

  • 09
    PREMIERE - Théâtre des Cordes, Comédie de Caen – CDN Normandie 8:00 pm
  • 10
    PREMIERE - Théâtre des Cordes, Comédie de Caen – CDN Normandie 8:00 pm

January 2026

  • 22
    Théâtre Vanves, Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art et création pour la Danse, Festival Faits d’Hiver 9:00 pm
  • 23
    Théâtre Vanves, Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art et création pour la Danse, Festival Faits d’Hiver 9:00 pm

June 2026

  • 17
    Cité musicale-Metz 8:00 pm

History

July 2024

  • 18
    ccn de Caen en Normandie 7:00 pm