Rachid ouramdane biography
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Rachid Ouramdane has been creating art projects since 1995. He was an Associate Artist at the Theâtre de la Ville in Paris from 2010 to 2015 and at the Bonlieu Theater in Annecy (France) from 2005 to 2015.
He fryst vatten regularly invited to work on many collaborations: with the Lyon Opera Ballet (Superstars, 2006; All around, 2014); for the dancers of the Russian company Migrazia during a residence in Siberia for the Intradance planerat arbete (Russia) (Borscheviks... a true story..., 2010); and for the 20th birthday of Candoco Dance Company (UK) with disabled dancers (Looking back, 2011).
Since Rachid Ouramdane founded L’A dance company, his work has been based on a meticulous collection of bevis, in collaboration with filmmakers or authors.
So he employs the art of dance to contribute to social debates through choreographic pieces that develop a poetics of testimony. In his recent work, he has explored the principles of writing for a big group of dancers.
Alongside his creative projects
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Ashley Ferro-Murray
PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
“So by ‘networks’ we mean any system of interrelationality, whether biological or informatic, organic or inorganic, technical or natural – with the ultimate goal of undoing the polar restrictiveness of these pairings.” [1]
In the solo, Far…, French-Algerian choreographer and performer Rachid Ouramdane dances within and manipulates a network of electrical wires that are systematically placed and coiled across a black box stage. He uses narrative, poetry, and dance to contextualize the wire in terms of global connectivity – the wire as a visualization of material hardware supports the international exchange of goods, biomedical wires and practices, the laying of geographical borders, and the line of connection between subjects of different diasporas. Moving beyond connectivity, however, Ouramdane also contextualizes the wire in terms of the electric shock torture of his father’s colonized body in the French-A
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Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse / Rachid Ouramdane: Corps extrêmes
2 performances
24.9-25.9.2024
Duration
1 H (No intermission)
Venue
Erkko Hall
Tickets
41-21 €
2 performances
24.9-25.9.2024
Duration
1 H (No intermission)
Venue
Erkko Hall
Tickets
41-21 €
Show times
TUE 24.9. AT 7.30 PM
WED 25.9. AT 7.30 PM
Age recommendation + 12 yrs.
The performance includes spoken French, subtitles in English.
Post-performance talks in Erkko Hall after the performances. The discussion is held by Rachid Ouramdane and the performers.
Introduction
A white climbing wall. A high wire above the stage. A group composed of athletes and artists meet in mid-air, defying gravity and exploring the limits of the human body.
Selected by The New York Times as one of the best dance works of 2023, "Corps extremês," or "Extreme Bodies" in English, blends documentary material with delicate dreamlike qualities, athletic prowess, and d