Night : Light est une création pour l’espace de projection de l’IRCAM, une installation-performance qui croise plusieurs partitions : la partition musicale de Raphaël Cendo, la partition chorégraphique d’Alban Richard et la partition lumineuse de Valérie Sigward.
Trois médiums qui  travaillent en porosité pour sculpter le temps et l’espace de ce lieu, et immerger les spectateurs dans un bain de sensations.

L’interprète active un protocole d’actions à effectuer, il est toujours en recherche autour de la notion de mouvements-pivots et doit sans cesse continuer à avancer dans une écriture labyrinthique. Le processus, une fois lancé, ne trouve de résolutions que dans une activité incessante.

Source : Centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie

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 own dance.

Alban Richard has collaborated with the Alla francesca ensemble, Les Talens Lyriques, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, the Ensemble intercontemporain, IRCAM and the Cairn, Instant Donné and Alternance ensembles, as well as with composers Arnaud Rebotini, Sebastian Rivas, Erwan Keravec, Jérôme Combier, Laurent Perrier, Raphaël Cendo, Robin Leduc, Paul Clift, Wen Liu and 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 been artistic director of the centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, with a project based on both his practice as an author and on connecting with the territory and its inhabitants.

More information : https://ccncn.eu/english/