Workshop with Alban Richard
Alban Richard, French choreographer and director of the National Choreographic Center in Caen-Normandy, will lead a workshop for choreographers, curators, visual artists, and cultural and social workers.
“Observe, continue, modify, imagine. I would like to share tools for producing movements by observing the favourable conditions of each situation. The situation is a resource that we must know how to develop. How to stay available? How not to project but to detect possibilities, not to model (have a plan) but to mature (not deprive yourself of any possibility),” says Alban Richard.
In the form of an experimental and improvisation workshop, based on the observing the constraints of our bodies in movement, we will work to trust ourselves and rely on the effectiveness of our choices.
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Alban Richard discovered contemporary dance while he was pursuing literary and musical studies. From the late 1990s, he worked for various choreographers such as Odile Duboc, Olga de Soto and Rosalind Crisp. In 2000, Alban Richard founded Ensemble l’Abrupt for which he created about thirty very different pieces, always in close interaction with a musical work whose writing and formal structure he questioned. Consequently, each creation opens up new research and a new performance style, setting itself apart from the previous one. The way he develops his shows, using restricted improvisations to devise the work directly on stage, encourages the performers to become creators of their dance.
Dance in the Gallery is a long-term interdisciplinary series exploring the multi-layered relations between movement and visual art in the site-specific context of an art museum, this year the Baroque palaces and collections of the National Gallery Prague at Hradčany.
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