Rachid Ouramdane

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 is regularly invited to work on many collaborations: with the Lyon Opera Ballet (Superstars, 2006 and All around, 2014); for the dancers of the Russian company Migrazia during a residence in Siberia for the Intradance project (Russia) (Borscheviks... a true story..., 2010); for the 20th birthday of Candoco Dance Company (UK) with disabled dancers (Looking back, 2011), with the Ballet de Lorraine (Murmuration, 2017); with the Cie XY (Möbius, 2019). Since Rachid Ouramdane founded L’A dance company, his work has been based on a meticulous collection of evidence, 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, Ouramdane is working to enhance learning and exchange through the management of international workshops for artistic research in France, Romania, Netherlands, Brazil, and the United States. Since beginning January 2016, Rachid Ouramdane direct the CCN2-Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble with Yoann Bourgeois. Photo credits: Géraldine Aresteanu