Si je meurs laissez le balcon ouvert

Intended as a homage to Dominique Bagouet, ‘Si Je Meurs Laissez le Balcon Ouvert’ transcends the challenges of a choreographic quotation and reconstruction to focus on a composition about traces.

Intended as a homage to Dominique Bagouet, ‘Si Je Meurs Laissez le Balcon Ouvert’ (If I Die, Leave the Balcony Open), the latest production from the German choreographer Raimund Hoghe, transcends the challenges of a choreographic quotation and reconstruction to focus on a composition about traces. A memory of Paul Verlaine’s ‘dear voices of those who have died’, of Bagouet’s in his last piece ‘Necesito’, of Hervé Guibert and even of Federico Garcia Lorca from whom Raimund Hoghe borrows his title; in short, of a certain period – the 1980s – haunted by the devastation of AIDS, ‘Si Je Meurs…’ brings together loss and memory in the present. “I remember a sensation of tenderness and humanity in his work that I very rarely see today. It’s something that has been lost, and I wanted to base my production on this loss. I would also like to show the metamorphosis of memory that provoked by a recollection to which our present time brings a new light.”

Credits

concept et choregraphy Raimund Hoghe

video direction Charles Picq

production 24 images