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Swan Lake
“Swan Lake is, above all, a love story, a dream of love which maybe ends badly, but at least love finds its rightful place there. I wanted my Lake to be my own dream of love; I dreamed it as one dreams of love.” This romantic and iconic music, whose tunes we all know, becomes the basis for an investigation here into the interaction between personal and collective memory. A ritual work about repetition and eternal recurrence. Raimund Hoghe aims to makes us aware once more of what draws us together as human beings: he works on a form “which takes what is personal beyond the private, which prevents pure representation and pure denuding of the self”. Ornella Balestra, “Maurice Béjart’s favourite ballerina who, in one movement of the shoulders, is able to resurrect the Swan that she has danced in the past”, the classically-trained Emmanuel Eggermont, Nabil Yahia-Aissa, who has danced for Boris Charmatz, and the young Belgian performer Lorenzo de Brabandere, dance alongside Raimund Hoghe to ward off the tragic destiny of love.
Source: programme de salle Maison de la Danse
