Introduction of the Raimund Hoghe Company

From 1980 to 1990 Raimund Hoghe worked as dramaturge for Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal. Since 1989 he has been working on his own theatre pieces for various dancers and actors. In 1992, he started his collaboration with the artist Luca Giacomo Schulte, who is till now his artistic collaborator. In 1994 he produced his first solo for himself, ""Meinwärts"", which together with the subsequent ""Chambre séparée"" (1997) and ""Another Dream"" (2000) made up a trilogy in the 20th century.

Hoghe frequently works for television on projects such as ""Lebensträume"" (1994) and ""Der Buckel"", his 1997 hour-long self portrait for WDR (West German Radio and Television). His company is based in Düsseldorf and paris and has been awarded several prizes including the ""Deutscher Produzentenpreis für Choreografie"" in 2001, the French Prix de la Critique in 2006 for ""Swan Lake, 4 Acts"" (in the category ""Best Foreign Piece""). Critics from the magazin ballet-tanz awarded him ""Dancer of the Year"" for 2008.

He read Pier Paolo Pasolini’s words of throwing the body into the fight. These words inspired him to go on stage. Other inspirations are the reality around him, the time in which he lives, his memories of history, people, images, feelings and the power and beauty of music and the confrontation with one’s own body which, in his case, does not correspond with conventional ideals of beauty. To see bodies on stage that do not comply with the norm is important - not only with regard to history but also with regard to present developments, which are leading humans to the status of design objects.

JI Hye Chung joins the company in 2016 with [La Valse] her first piece with him and now she is participating for new creation [Trois].