Alban Richard (ouverture publique)

For his new work - scheduled for release in 2025 - 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 never 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 dancers? bodies and voices, combining them with an aesthetic of stuttering to focus not on phrasing but on the loop or micro-loop. At stake is the idea 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 choreographic writing as a form of film editing, guided by sequencing techniques and attentive to questions of temporal sequences and breaks.

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