Songs for Takashi

In this new piece, I would like to continue my cooperation with the Japanese dancer Takashi Ueno; he has become one of my most important dancers in recent years. His unusually powerful stage presence and poetry of movement could already be admired in my pieces „Si je meurs laissez le balcon ouvert“, „Pas de Deux“, „Cantatas“ and most recently as a guest in „An Evening with Judy“.
In the new piece I would like to place Takashi Ueno in a connection to music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The music from this period, which stems from Spain, will be sung by Victoria de los Angeles (as a recording). The idea for this unusual combination arose during the rehearsals for my last piece, “Quartet”.

Concept, choreography and set design Raimund Hoghe
Dance: Takashi Ueno, Raimund Hoghe
Artistic collaboration: Luca Giacomo Schulte
Light: Raimund Hoghe, Amaury Seval
Sound: Pascal Gehrke
Management: Mathieu Hilléreau, Les Indépendances

Production: Raimund Hoghe — Hoghe & Schulte GbR (Düsseldorf) / Cie VENTO (Paris)
Co-production: CCNR – Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux la Pape dans le cadre de l’accueil studio, Theater im Puppenhaus Münster
Funded by: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
Supported by: ménagerie de verre (Paris) dans le cadre de Studiolab, Montpellier Danse / Résidence à l’Agora, Cite Internationale de la Danse (Montpellier)
With special thanks to agnès b. Paris

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