Rachid Ouramdane

At the age of twelve, Rachid Ouramdane discovered dance through hip-hop. He also took intensive courses in classical and modern dance. In the early 1990s, he dropped out of his studies in biology to devote himself fulltime to dance and joined the Centre national de danse contemporaine in Angers.

As a performer and choreographer, he has worked with Meg Stuart, Odile Duboc, Hervé Robbe, Alain Buffard, Christian Rizzo, Julie Nioche and Emmanuelle Huynh.

Rachid Ouramdane's creations are often marked by the seal of testimony and intimate experience (refugee children, victims of torture or natural disasters, amateur athletes, etc.) from which he weaves a structured choreography.

Rachid Ouramdane collaborates with circus artists (Compagnie XY), authors (Pascal Rambert, Sonia Chiambretto), visual artists (Nicolas Floch' and Mehdi Meddaci), and musicians (Jean-Baptiste Julien and Alexandre Meyer) for his own creations as well as for commissioned works and workshops.

With an ambitious project based on diversity and hospitality, he has been director of Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse in Paris since April 2021.

Corps extrêmes, created with 8 acrobats, 1 climber and 1 highliner, June the 23rd and 24th 2021,  / Montpellier Danse 2021

Les Traceurs, created in 2020 as part of La Grande Balade / Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy

Eden, created for 1 performer, from July the15th to 31st 2020 at Teatro Comunale de Bolzano (Italie) as part of the project EDEN, a special edition of Bolzano Danza Festival 

Möbius, created by Collectif XY in collaboration with Rachid Ouramdane

Variation(s), 2019, created for 2 performers, October the 9th, 10th and 11th 2019 at Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy

Franchir la nuit, created for 5 performers and a crowd of children, September the 20th and 21st 2018, Biennale de la danse de Lyon

Murmuration, created with dancers from the Ballet de Lorraine, from June the 29th to July the 2nd 2017, Festival Des Plaisirs inconnus – Nancy

Tenir le temps, created for 16 performers, July the 1st and the 2nd 2015, Festival Montpellier danse

TORDRE, 2014, created for 2 performers, November the 5th 2014 at Bonlieu Scène Nationale – Annecy 

Tout autour, 2014, created with dancers from the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon, February the 22nd at Radiant Caluire

POLICES !, 2013, created for 5 performers, a choir and a crowd, November the 14th at the Festival Mettre en scène — Le Triangle, Rennes

Sfumato, 2012, created for 7 performers, September the 19th at the Biennale de la danse de Lyon 

Looking back, 2011, created for 5 dancers from the Candoco Dance Company, le 14 septembre à Manchester

Exposition universelle, 2011, duo for Jean-Baptiste Julien and Rachid Ouramdane, created on Mai the 12th at Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy

Borsheviks…Une histoire vraie…, 2010, created for the Russian company  Migrazia, April the 9th at Kirov (Russia)

Des Témoins ordinaires, 2009, created for 5 performers, on May the 28th at Bonlieu Scène Nationale – Annecy 

Loin…, 2008, solo, created on March the 4th at Bonlieu Scène Nationale – Annecy

Surface de réparation, 2007, created with 12 sportsteenagers from Gennevilliers, on October the 4th at Théâtre de Gennevilliers

Un Garçon debout, 2006, solo for the author and stage director Pascal Rambert, created on October the 18th at Bonlieu Scène Nationale – Annecy

Superstars, 2006, created for 7 dancers from the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon, on September the 18th at the Opéra National de Lyon

Cover, 2005, created for 4 performers, on October the 28th at the Biennale de danse du Céara – Fortaleza (Brezil)

Les Morts pudiques, 2004, solo, created on May the 7th 2004 at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales of Seine St-Denis

Je ne, 2004, co-created with the author Daniel Danis, created on October the 9th at la Ferme du Buisson – Scène Nationale de Marne-la-Vallée

À l’oeil nu, 2003, collective and ongoing project

Skull*Cult, 2002, solo co-created with the choreographer Christian Rizzo, created on July the 15th as part of the Vifdu Sujet – Festival d’Avignon

+ ou – là, 2002, created for 6 performers at Manège – Scène Nationale of Reims

Face cachée, 2002, vocal performance for 6 performers

Structure Multifonction, 2001, co-created with Christian Rizzo and Nicolas Floc’h

De Arbitre à Zébra, 2001, created with wrestlers from Reims

Au bord des métaphores, 2000, created at the Ménagerie de Verre – Paris

Les absents ont toujours tort, 1998, created for 6 performers at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales of Seine St-Denis

Des gens de passage, 1997

3 avenue de l’espérance, 1996, solo co-created with Julie Nioche, at Quartz – Scène Nationale of Brest 

Rachid Ouramdane builds his project according to key concerns :

• Chaillot, a theater of diversity
• Hybridizing forms of art
• Inventing hospitaly within and outside Chaillot / the art of connecting

His projects : 

• Chaillot Colo
• Chaillot Olympique
• Chaillot Experience
• Chaillot Kids