Raimund Hoghe
The Festival TransAmériques, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, presents Boléro Variations and Swan Lake, 4 acts by the Compagnie Raimund Hoghe.
The German writer and man of the theatre Raimund Hoghe worked for ten years as a dramaturge for Pina Bausch before he, the hunchback, decided to take Pasolini’s injunction to “throw your body into the battle” to heart. His work becomes an artistic and political gesture that destabilizes, questioning our conceptions about abnormality and our expectations about dance, a way of including all of humanity.
Boléro Varations
Boléro Varations, a dance piece created in Paris at the time of Maurice Béjart’s death, features not only the music of Ravel’s Boléro but also fados and folksongs, with the music woven into individual stories, the passage of time and the culture of a people. Dance is not to be wasted for it is a rare and precious gift.
Swan Lake, 4 acts
Boléro Variations and
Swan Lakes 4 Acts were presented in May 2008 at the Espace Go, Montréal.
Starting with the emblematic ballet of the Romantic repertoire, Raimund Hoghe created his own personal version of the classic. With staging and movement reduced to the bare essentials, he reminisces about the classical choreography, his ghosts meeting up with our own. Tchaikovsky’s haunting music fills up the large empty space, and ritual takes hold in an insistent back-and-forth. “It is above all a love story. It ends badly, perhaps, but at least love has found its place.” It is an utterly entrancing piece.
