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title: "Alban Richard • Artists"
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# Alban Richard

Last edited on 22.7.2026

![](https://brut-wien.at/assets/artists/alban-richard/web_Christine-Gaigg_c_Marianne-Weiss_2.jpg)

Christine Gaigg - The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light

© Marianne Weiss

## artist.bio

Alban Richard is a choreographer, he established the *ensemble l’Abrupt* in 2000 and became head of the *Centre choréographique national de Caen en Normandie* in 2014.

## Works at brut

- [The Inheritance (imagetanz 2017, mit Christine Gaigg und Cyril Accorsi)](https://archiv2.brut-wien.at/de/Programm/Kalender/Programm-2017/2017_03_Maerz-2017/2017_03_imagetanz_The-Inheritance-Extra)

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