“After ‘Swan Lake' and ‘The Rite of Spring', I wanted to work on another famous piece: Maurice Ravel's ‘Boléro'. This short piece, so well known these days, was first performed in 1928 at the Paris Opera, and has inspired many choreographers such as Maurice Béjart and Odile Duboc, conductors like Leonard Bernstein and the band leader Glenn Miller. My first memory of ‘Boléro' is the interpretation by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean during the Sarajevo Olympic Games in 1984: a
presentation on ice that was revolutionary in its field and has since become legendary. But the bolero is not just a work by Maurice Ravel; it is also a Spanish dance invented in the 18th century and a South American style of music and dance. ‘Besame Mucho' is a bolero, as is the song ‘Somos Novios'. In this new piece I wanted to work with this other dimension of bolero.”
Raimund Hoghe

Source: Maison de la Danse programming

Credits

Conception, chorégraphie Raimund Hoghe collaboration artistique Luca Giacomo Schulte avec Ornella Balestra, Ben Benaouisse, Lorenzo De Brabandere, Emmanuel Eggermont, Raimund Hoghe, Yutaka Takei lumière Raimund Hoghe, Johannes Sundrup  son Patrick Buret musique Maurice Ravel, Guiseppe Verdi, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky et Boleros d'Amérique du Sud
Production Compagnie Raimund Hoghe (Düsseldorf-Paris) coproduction Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou, Festival d'Automne à Paris, Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté/Belfort avec le soutien de la convention CULTURESFRANCE / Conseil Régional de Franche-Comté / DRAC Franche-Comté ; Tanzquartier Wien (Autriche) avec le soutien de la ville de Düsseldorf remerciements particuliers à la Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf et à la Ménagerie de Verre/Paris 

Réalisation vidéo Charles Picq date du document vidéo 2007 production Maison de la Danse



Durée de l'œuvre 2h

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

More information : raimundhoghe.com

Author, filmmaker and video artist Charles Picq (1952-2012) entered working life in the 70s through theatre and photography. A- fter resuming his studies (Maîtrise de Linguistique - Lyon ii, Maîtrise des sciences et Techniques de la Communication - grenoble iii), he then focused on video, first in the field of fine arts at the espace Lyonnais d'art Contemporain (ELAC) and with the group « Frigo », and then in dance.
   On creation of the Maison de la Danse in Lyon in 1980, he was asked to undertake a video documentation project that he has continued ever since. During the ‘80s, a decade marked in France by the explosion of contemporary dance and the development of video, he met numerous artists such as andy Degroat, Dominique Bagouet, Carolyn Carlson, régine Chopinot, susanne Linke, Joëlle Bouvier and regis Obadia, Michel Kelemenis. He worked in the creative field with installations and on-stage video, as well as in television with recorded shows, entertainment and documentaries.

His work with Dominique Bagouet (80-90) was a unique encounter. He documents his creativity, assisting with Le Crawl de Lucien and co-directing with his films Tant Mieux, Tant Mieux and 10 anges. in the 90s he became director of video development for the Maison de la Danse and worked, with the support of guy Darmet and his team, in the growing space of theatre video through several initiatives:
       - He founded a video library of dance films with free public access. This was a first for France. Continuing the video documentation of theatre performances, he organised their management and storage.
       - He promoted the creation of a video-bar and projection room, both dedicated to welcoming school pupils.
       - He started «présentations de saisons» in pictures.
       - He oversaw the DVD publication of Le tour du monde en 80 danses, a pocket video library produced by the Maison de la Danse for the educational sector.

       - He launched the series “scènes d'écran” for television and online. He undertook the video library's digital conversion and created Numeridanse.

His main documentaries are: enchaînement, Planète Bagouet, Montpellier le saut de l'ange, Carolyn Carlson, a woman of many faces, grand ecart, Mama africa, C'est pas facile, Lyon, le pas de deux d'une ville, Le Défilé, Un rêve de cirque.

He has also produced theatre films: Song, Vu d'ici (Carolyn Carlson), Tant Mieux, Tant Mieux, 10 anges, Necesito and So schnell, (Dominique Bagouet), Im bade wannen, Flut and Wandelung (Susanne Linke), Le Cabaret Latin (Karine Saporta), La danse du temps (Régine Chopinot), Nuit Blanche (Abou Lagraa), Le Témoin (Claude Brumachon), Corps est graphique (Käfig), Seule et WMD (Françoise et Dominique Dupuy), La Veillée des abysses (James Thiérrée), Agwa (Mourad Merzouki), Fuenteovejuna (Antonio Gades), Blue Lady revistied (Carolyn Carlson).

Source: Maison de la Danse de Lyon