In coprogrammation with le Vivat Scène conventionnée
In coprogrammation with le Vivat Scène conventionnée
This piece is conceived by its dancers as a great journey through the work of Raimund Hoghe. The recomposition of carefully chosen dance fragments by Emmanuel Eggermont and Luca Giacomo Schulte is a last chance for the audience to discover the quality still preserved in the bodies. Ornella Balestra – a remarkable dancer with Maurice Béjart -, Marion Ballester – an emblematic performer with Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker -, and the opera singer Kerstin Pohle, revive this wave of humanity and poetry that the choreographer has delicately placed in each of us. The company’s dancers, from France, Germany, Italy, Korea and Japan, have come together specially for this ephemeral performance as an invitation to spend An Evening with Raimund…
Previous shows with Le Gymnase: Aberration (Le Grand Bain 2023), All Over Nympheas (Le Grand Bain 2022), Pólis (Le Grand Bain 2017), La méthode des phosphènes (Les Petits Pas 2019), Vorspiel (2014), Strange Fruit (Le Grand Bain 2015)
From 6.30pm, take part in an audience warm-up, more info from Le Vivat
After the show, it’s party time!
RAIMUND/EMMANUEL CYCLE
To describe his work, Raimund Hoghe liked to quote Pier Paolo Pasolini: ‘Throw your body into the battle’.
By celebrating the beauty of the body – plural, fragile and unconventional – he left his mark on the history of dance. When he dies in 2021, Emmanuel Eggermont, with whom he collaborated for over 15 years, will become legatee of his choreographic works. This responsibility
leads him to consider the question of transmission to audiences. Three pieces have been created since then, all possible entries into Raimund Hoghe’s repertoire: About Love and Death, An Evening with Raimund and Simple Things.
Choreography: Emmanuel Eggermont, Luca Giacomo Schulte (based on fragments of choreographic works by Raimund Hoghe / 2002-2019)
Performance: Ornella Balestra, Marion Ballester, Lorenzo De Brabandere, Ji Hye Chung, Adrien Dantou, Emmanuel Eggermont, Kerstin Pohle, Luca Giacomo Schulte, Takashi Ueno
Lighting, sound: Ansgar Kluge
Production: Hoghe + Schulte GbR Hoghe + Schulte GbR, is supported by Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunststiftung NRW, Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf.
With the support of the Ministère de la Culture – Délégation à la danse, Goethe Institut Paris and the Maison de Heidelberg in Montpellier.
Special thanks to: Montpellier Danse, La ménagerie de verre in Paris, Festival d’Automne in Paris, Teatro Municipal do Porto, tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf, Theater im Pumpenhaus in Münster, La Bâtie – Festival de Genève, Queer Zagreb, agnès b.
