About Love and Death

elegy for Raimund Hoghe

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. 

Création 2024, durée 75 minutes

Concept, chorégraphie et interprétation : Emmanuel Eggermont

Collaboration artistique et photographie : Jihyé Jung

Régie sonore : Julien Lepreux

Création lumière : Alice Dussart

Remerciements: Kite Vollard
Production et diffusion : Sylvia Courty / Boom’Structur

Administratrice de production : Violaine Kalouaz

Production : L’Anthracite (www.lanthracite.com)

Coproduction : CCNT direction Thomas Lebrun, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix Hauts-de-France, CCAM / Scène Nationale de Vandœuvre, Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Charleroi Danse - Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Avec l’aide Avec les aides de la DRAC Hauts-de-France et de la Région Hauts-de-France