Invitation has a significant place in Raimund Hoghe's work. Whether it is Lorenzo de Brabandere in “Sacre – The Rite of Spring”, or Emmanuel Eggermont in “L'Après-midi”, this choreographer's space has been populated by many people. Ever since his first solo “Meinwärts” (towards me), he has continually opened up his world to the presence of other bodies. Real or imaginary presences, voices, silhouettes passed through the filter of memory, stories conjured up by refrains, songs. The vacant stage is inhabited; the movements, the rituals that cut it into shape, lead towards a wrestling with the fragments of time.

For “Sans-titre”, Raimund Hoghe invited in Faustin Linyekula, the Congolese choreographer and dancer. For him, to invite is to arrange a space permeable to sharing. To suggest music, which – like that of Bach – will follow its own course in each person, dancer and audience member. To bring in certain objects, move them around, to build points, counterpoints and zones of friction together. To wait for an image, to undo it, let it drift; to allow the creation of a language through which two bodies, different in shape, colour and culture might meet. To state. To lead. To unfold their relationship with death, with time.

Source: Festival d'Automne à Paris

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Raimund Hoghe was born in Wuppertal and began his career by writing portraits of outsiders and celebrities for the German weekly newspaper "Die Zeit". These were later compiled in several books. From 1980 to 1989 he worked as dramaturge for Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal which also became the subject matter for two more books. Since 1989 he has been working on his own theatre pieces for various dancers and actors. 1992 started his collaboration with the artist Luca Giacomo Schulte, who is till now his artistic collaborator. In 1994 he produced his first solo for himself, "Meinwärts", which together with the subsequent "Chambre séparée" (1997) and "Another Dream" (2000) made up a trilogy on the 20th century.

Hoghe frequently works for television on projects such as "La jeunesse est dans la tête" for ARTE (2016), "Lebensträume" (ZDF/3sat 1994) and 1997 "Der Buckel", a hour-long self portrait for WDR. His books have been translated into several languages and he has presented his performances all over Europe, as well as in North and South America, Asia and Australia. He has been awarded several prizes including the "Deutscher Produzentenpreis für Choreografie" in 2001, the French Prix de la Critique in 2006 for "Swan Lake, 4 Acts" (in the category "Best Foreign Piece"). Critics from the magazin ballet-tanz awarded him "Dancer of the Year" for 2008. In 2019, The French Cultural Ministry appointed Raimund Hoghe “Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres”. He received the award in recognition of his "significant contributions to the cultural cooperation between Germany and France". In October 2020, he received the German Dance Award, Germany's most prestigious award for choreographers. Books about his theatre works were published in France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States. Raimund Hoghe lived in Düsseldorf and died unexpectedly in his sleep on 14th May 2021, at the age of 72. 

Source : Raimund Hoghe 's website

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