Inspired by graffiti saying “Art will save the world”, Eggermont invites young people to share memories, poems, and references. These fragments form a time capsule, portraying a generation in search of meaning. Through his gestural language and music, Eggermont’s dance becomes a refuge, affirming art as a force for resilience and renewal in troubled times.
In over 30 years of creation, Raimund Hoghe has never ceased to transcend the beauty of simple things. Ornella Balestra, Takashi Ueno, Emmanuel Eggermont and Luca Giacomo Schulte, who have worked closely with the choreographer, revisit these materials to share the themes that are dear to Raimund Hoghe, the great classics (Ravel’s Bolero, Swan Lake…) and more topical subjects such as the migrant crisis… Rather than melancholy, Simple Things opens up a privileged path of access to this artistic universe that is as singular as it is necessary.
January 20th – 21st, 2025 Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris March 12th – 13th, 2025 Le Gymnase CDCN de Roubaix, Roubaix April 2nd – 3rd, 2025 CCAM, Vandoeuvre April 23rd – 24th, 2025 Pôle Sud CDCN Strasbourg, Strasbourg 75 minutes
As a true danced elegy, this piece questions lineage in the choreographic field through the prism of over fifteen years of collaboration with the German choreographer Raimund Hoghe, who passed away in 2021. Aiming to shine a light on how this generation of creators continues to influence us, Emmanuel Eggermont revisits fragments of pieces woven from moments suspended in time, in which love and death act in the background, articulating them with other personal materials in order to imagine new writings.
In About Love and Death, it is both the iconographic and musical palette of Raimund Hoghe and the living kinesthesia of the imagination of Emmanuel Eggermont that are expressed. From fantasy of a fantasized fauna to the comical elegance of a Gene Kelly dancing in the rain by way of the syncopated energy of a Josephine Baker, this danced medley is accompanied by new sequences that multiply evocations, leading up to the incarnation of the ghost of Raimund Hoghe himself.
The ramified writing of this elegy-toned collection reveals an entire panel of references offering to all audiences, particularly those experiencing it for the first time, a path to access this unique and necessary universe in the panorama of the history of dance.
