Throwing the body into the fight British Premiere
A Lecture/performance
Text, Choreography and Dance : Raimund Hoghe
Artistic Collaboration: Luca Giacomo Schulte
As I worked on my first solo "Meinwrts" ("Mewards") rather than begin in a studio, I worked in my flat, mostly in the evening, after nightfall. A window attended as a mirror. In the darkness the glass reflected my movements and the space in which I was. At the same time there was the possibility to have a look outside - on the garage roofs, trees, street lamps and a school in which Japanese children sometimes practised German folk songs. Perhaps these early attempts in front of the window reflect my interest in theatre: the relationship between the inner and outer worlds, what's personal and what's universal, nearness and distance, dreams and reality, past and present.
Raimund Hoghe was born in Wuppertal and began his career by writing portraits of outsiders and celebrities for the German weekly newspaper "Die Zeit". From 1980-90 he worked as dramaturge for Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal.
Production : Raimund Hoghe (Dsseldorf)