Alban Richard
Choreographer

Alban Richard discovered contemporary dance while studying literature and music. From the end of the 1990s, he worked for choreographers such as Odile Duboc, Olga de Soto and Rosalind Crisp. In 2000, Alban Richard founded the ensemble l'Abrupt, for which he created some thirty very different pieces, always closely linked to a musical work whose writing and formal structure he questioned. In this way, each new creation opens up a new line of research, a new gestural approach that sets itself apart from the previous one. The way in which he develops his shows, with a stage script nourished by constrained improvisations, encourages the performers to become creators of their own dance.Alban Richard has collaborated with the ensemble Alla francesca, Les Talens Lyriques, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, the Ensemble intercontemporain, Ircam and the ensembles Cairn, Instant Donné and Alternance, as well as composers Arnaud Rebotini, Sebastian Rivas, Erwan Keravec, Jérôme Combier, Laurent Perrier, Raphaël Cendo, Robin Leduc, Paul Clift, Wen Liu, 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 directed the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie, with a project based on both an authorial approach and work linked to the territory and its inhabitants.

Vanessa Court
Sound

Graduating from ENSATT in 1998, Vanessa Court creates sound environments for theater and contemporary dance, and provides sound for classical, contemporary and jazz music ensembles. In opera, she worked at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, then at the Opéra de Lille for its reopening in 2003; in dance, she has collaborated with Susan Buirge, Michèle Noiret, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Groupe Entorse, Olivia Grandville, Vincent Dupont, Thierry Micouin, Christian Rizzo, Alban Richard and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker over the last ten years. In music, she regularly collaborates with Ictus and l'ONJ/Olivier Benoît.In theater, she is currently working with Jonathan Capdevielle.Vanessa Court signed the sound environment for Alban Richard's Fix Me in 2018.

Jérôme Houlès
Lighting, lighting structure design and stage management

Lighting director since 2003 at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen (with Xavier Lazarini for Héla Fattoumi/Eric Lamoureux) and at the Comédie de Caen-CDN (with Renaud Lagier for Jean Lambert-wild) and for various regional stages, museums and festivals.As a lighting designer for the performing arts (dance, theater, puppetry, magic, music), he has collaborated with companies such as Basinga (Tatiana Mosio-Bongonga), Silence et Songe, En faim de Contes, Remusat (Aurélie Edeline), Le Poney, Itra (Sophie Lamarche Damoure), La Grive (Bastien Lefèvre, Clémentine Maubon), Akselere, One Breath (Marine Chesnais), Grand Parc, Gablé, Maalax, Numen Company (Uta Gebert)...

Fanny Brouste
Costume designer

After a Master's degree in Art History, Fanny Brouste obtained a diploma in costume design and production. She began working with Ludovic Lagarde on the operas The Fairy Queen, Massacre, Il segreto di Suzanna and La voix humaine, and created the costumes for Un nid pour quoi faire, Un mage en été and the Büchner trilogy (Woyzeck, La mort de Danton, Léonce et Léna). She also works with Simon Delétang (Manque), Mikaël Serre (La Mouette, Les contes d'Hoffmann), Guillaume Vincent for the operas The second woman, Mimi ou la vie de Bohème, The curlew river and recently Le timbre d'argent at Opéra Comique.Since 2011, she has supervised the creations of Antoine Gint's operas, and since 2014 the creations of Emmanuel Demarcy Mota (Alice et autres merveilles, L'État de siège and, in 2019, Les sorcières de Salem).Most recently, she created the costumes for director and choreographer Laura Scozzi at the Bonn Opera, and meets her again in September 2019 at the Dresden Opera for Il vaggio a Reims. Fanny Brouste designed the costumes for Alban Richard's Fix Me in 2018.