Choreographer and researcher @kalashas

RICHARD TREMBLAY (Ph D, M Ind, B Ed) was the found­ing direc­tor of the for­mer Le Groupe Téâ­tram com­pa­ny where he direct­ed Madam’s Being Car­ried Away (1974 – 75 – 77), a work cre­at­ed in Cana­da and pre­sent­ed at the Nation­al School of Dra­ma and Jawa­har­lal Nehru Uni­ver­si­ty in New Del­hi (India) as well as at the New The­ater Fes­ti­val in Bal­ti­more (US, 1997). The chore­o­g­ra­ph­er and per­former began his career in chore­o­graph­ic the­ater and was lat­er trained in the Kathakali char­ac­ter dance (1975 – 81, 1984) at the Kathakali school, Ker­ala Kala­man­dalam, fol­low­ing which he received a com­mis­sion from this pres­ti­gious insti­tu­tion for the cre­ation of The Ili­ad in Kathakali, The Anger of Achilles (1988) pre­miered at the NCPA in Mum­bai (1991), fol­lowed by a revival in Sin­ga­pore (2000). He cre­at­ed more than a dozen chore­o­graph­ic works at Danse Kalashas, his com­pa­ny, includ­ing Of Mice and Oth­er Sim­i­lar Devices (1990), the com­pa­ny’s found­ing work, and fea­tured chore­o­gra­phies such as Prayer for a Rope, a Pope and a Rogue (2003) for six dancers, with scenog­ra­phy and light­ing by Jean-Guy Lecat and per­cus­sion music by com­pos­er Bruno Paquet played live by five per­cus­sion­ists under the direc­tion of Shawn Mativet­sky. Richard Trem­blay is cur­rent­ly work­ing on the recon­struc­tion of a Kathakali per­for­mance pre­sent­ed in Ker­ala in 1916, in par­al­lel with writ­ing projects and con­fer­ence pre­sen­ta­tions. He was trained in phonol­o­gy (1981 – 84) in the Post­grad­u­ate Stud­ies pro­gram of the lin­guis­tics depart­ment of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Montreal.