Simple Things

A tribute? A celebration? It’s more than that. Simple Things is first and foremost an act of sharing and a dialogue through gesture with a loved one. Ornella Balestra, Emmanuel Eggermont, Luca Giacomo Schulte and Takashi Ueno all danced for choreographer Raimund Hoghe, the unforgettable dramaturge of Pina Bausch’s works. Together, they have questioned their own physical memory to find a movement, an inspiration, a memory of the man who forever changed the way we look at the beauty of the body by exposing his own “non-traditional” physique. The challenge here is not to reprise extracts from his repertoire, but rather to connect it with the pre sent, according to the method professed by Hoghe himself. Performed by three of its creators, this sensitive offering is chore ographed by Emmanuel Eggermont and Luca Giacomo Schulte.
Far from cultivating melancholy, it reactivates the creative process of a work whose themes – love, life, death – remain essential.

Source : Program of Maison de la danse