Emmanuel Eggermont is bringing back to life through his own writing his long artistic collaboration with Raimund Hoghe, who died in 2021. He presents the originating actions that brought this nurtured collaboration into being, interspersing the performance with choreographic fragments that have profoundly impacted his body as a performer and his writing as a choreographer. The show presents a ceremony, of an elegance that verges on haute couture, which we imagine is attended by Hoghe seated in the front row. We appreciate its subtle humour, with characters ranging from the crowd to the diva, and its finesse in the course of movements through space. Revisiting a number of works in the repertory of a creator who worked for a time as dramatist for Pina Bausch, Eggermont examines the emotional transmission from one form of writing, one work, or one body to the other. This immersion in the form of an elegy in dance, written between love and loss, levity and seriousness, invites the audience to (re)discover the immense legacy of a choreographer whose finesse was without equal.
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Création 2024 / Concept, chorégraphie et interprétation : Emmanuel Eggermont / Collaboration artistique : Jihyé Jung / Création lumière : Alice Dussart / Régie sonore : Julien Lepreux / Remerciements : Kite Vollard / Production et diffusion : Sylvia Courty | Boom’Structur / Administration de production / Violaine Kalouaz | Filage
Production : L’Anthracite / Coproduction : Charleroi danse, CCN de Tours, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix Hauts-de-France, CCAM – Scène Nationale de Vandœuvre, Les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis / Aide : DRAC Hauts-de-France, Région Hauts-de-France
Avertissement : la pièce comporte certains moments de nudité non frontale
En lien avec About Love and Death, Emmanuel Eggermont propose une introduction à l’univers artistique de celui qui fut son mentor et avec lequel il a travaillé pendant plus de quinze ans. Figure majeure de la danse contemporaine, le chorégraphe allemand Raimund Hoghe laisse derrière lui une œuvre d’une forte singularité. En s’appuyant sur des images d’archives, Emmanuel Eggermont donnera des clés de lecture afin de rendre accessible les principes fondamentaux de ses créations.