At the confluence of Contemporary Dance, Choreography-Theatre, and the Kathakali Dance-Theatre
In a movement derived from Kathakali.
Gestuelle and body culture generate form and energy.
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Richard Tremblay had his dance training in Kathakali, from 1975 to 1981. He performed in Quebec and Canada, and danced in India with the Kerala Kalamandalam, the Kathakali national dance company and its dancers/teachers with whom he had trained at the Indian school. In 1988, with/for the same company, he created /staged The Iliad, a major Kathakali contemporary work which has been presented in India and elsewhere in Asia. Richard Tremblay's work covers contemporary dance and Kathakali. His creative background in choreography-theatre, and Kathakali has given his choreography its unique features.
|  In the role of Arjuna (Kathakali) |
His most recent work, In Himalaya; Prayer for a Rope, a Pope, And a Rogue (2003) comes from a residency project, Esquisse d'un corps divers, carried out at the Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Comté in Belfort-Sochaux, in France, and at the Thrissur Sangeeth Natak Academy, in India. La courbe en flocon de neige (1995), Amas de percolation (1993), Le paradoxe du ciel en feu (1992), L'attracteur d'Ezhikode (1991) and Of Mice and Other Similar Devices (1990) are further evidence of his contribution to contemporary dance creation.
In 1990, the choreographer founded Danse Kalashas, his contemporary dance company. Five years later, he established The Galileo Spaces, The Centre de Création pour Musique et Danse, in collaboration with Bruno Paquet.
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