Rachid Ouramdane

At the age of twelve, Rachid Ouramdane discovered dance  through hip-hop. He also took intensive courses in classical and modern  dance. In the early 1990s, he dropped out of his studies in biology to  devote himself fulltime to dance and joined the Centre national de danse  contemporaine in Angers.

As a performer and choreographer, he has  worked with Meg Stuart, Odile Duboc, Hervé Robbe, Alain Buffard,  Christian Rizzo, Julie Nioche and Emmanuelle Huynh.

Rachid  Ouramdane’s creations are often marked by the seal of testimony and  intimate experience (refugee children, victims of torture or natural  disasters, amateur athletes, etc.) from which he weaves a structured  choreography.

Rachid Ouramdane collaborates with circus artists  (Compagnie XY), authors (Pascal Rambert, Sonia Chiambretto), visual  artists (Nicolas Floch’ and Mehdi Meddaci), and musicians (Jean-Baptiste  Julien and Alexandre Meyer) for his own creations as well as for  commissioned works and workshops.

With an ambitious project based  on diversity and hospitality, he has been director of Chaillot – Théâtre  national de la Danse in Paris since April 2021.

Source: Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse

More information: https://theatre-chaillot.fr/en