Oases - Alban Richard
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INSANE

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Cre­ated in 2016 with 50 res­id­ents of the Caen region, INSANEis a cho­reo­graph­ic work that is now per­formed by numer­ous groups of people liv­ing in Lithuania, the United King­dom, the Czech Repub­lic, and bey­ond.
Through a train­ing pro­tocol and toolkit-shar­ing pro­cess, Alban Richard sup­ports European cho­reo­graph­ers in work­ing with res­id­ents of their own coun­tries, draw­ing on the struc­ture of INSANEto cre­ate a loc­ally rooted ver­sion each time.
Between 2023 and 2026, the piece has been restaged 10 times in Lithuania, once in the United King­dom, and once in the Czech Republic.

INSANEis a dance pro­ject situ­ated in spe­cif­ic loc­a­tions. It is the inva­sion of a space by a com­munity of bod­ies without iden­tity, without gender, without cul­tur­al or reli­gious mark­ers — a com­munity that sim­ul­tan­eously inhab­its and haunts that space.
The piece is struc­tured in three sections:

  1. A com­munity of people wanders and con­structs human architectures.
  2. Small groups of indi­vidu­als embody scenes from the Last Judge­mentin an end­less procession.
  3. A dance ritu­al emerges from a col­lect­ive energy and spills into the audi­ence’s own space, cul­min­at­ing in a joy­ful celebration.
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Cre­ated in 2016 for 50 Inhab­it­ants
Cho­reo­graphy: Alban Richard
Cho­reo­graph­ic assist­ant: Cam­ille Cau

Exec­ut­ive pro­du­cer OASES
Pro­duced by the Centre cho­ré­gra­phique natio­nal de Caen en Normandie

History

June 2016

  • 11
    Comédie de Caen — CDN de Normandie 7:00 pm

September 2023

  • 12
    Klaipeda 12:00 am

June 2024

  • 07
    LMTA kiemelis, Vilnius, Lituanie 12:00 am

August 2024

  • 04
    Garliava, Lituanie 12:00 am
  • 30
    Žagarė, Lituanie 12:00 am

September 2024

  • 15
    Kelmė, Lituanie 12:00 am

May 2025

  • 20
    Ignalina, Lituanie 12:00 am

June 2025

  • 15
    Šiauliai, Lituanie 12:00 am
  • 21
    Druskininkai, Lituanie 12:00 am

October 2025

  • 03
    Agila, Nida, Lituanie 7:00 pm

November 2025

  • 27
    Anykščiai, Lituanie 12:00 am

June 2026

  • 21
    St Mary’s Churchyard, Portsmouth 12:00 pm

July 2026

  • 17
    Château de Žďár, Zámek Žďár nad Sázavou, République Tchèque 12:00 am