Alban Richard

Alban Richard discovered contemporary dance while studying literature and music. From the end of the 1990s, he worked for a number of choreographers including Odile Duboc, Olga de Soto and Rosalind Crisp.

In 2000, Alban Richard founded the ensemble l’Abrupt, for which he has created some thirty very different pieces, always closely linked to a musical work whose writing and formal structure he questions. In this way, each creation opens up a new line of research, a new gestural approach that sets itself apart from the previous one. The way in which he develops his shows, by writing on the stage and using constrained improvisations, encourages the performers to become creators of their own dance.

Alban Richard has collaborated with the ensemble Alla francesca, Les Talens Lyriques, the Percussions de Strasbourg, the Ensemble intercontemporain, IRCAM and the ensembles Cairn, Instant Donné and Alternance, as well as composers Arnaud Rebotini, Sebastian Rivas, Erwan Keravec, Jérôme Combier, Laurent Perrier, Raphaël Cendo, Robin Leduc, Paul Clift, Wen Liu, Matthew Barnson…

A prolific choreographer, Alban Richard is regularly invited by ballets and companies, both internationally (Canada, Lithuania, Norway) and in France, to create commissioned works.
Since 2015, he has directed the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie, with a project based on both an authorial approach and work linked to the region and its inhabitants.