IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LE MAC ORLAN
An Evening with Judy, a solo dance performance by the German dancer and choreographer Raimund Hoghe, completes his collection of portraits devoted to unusual singers. After the tenor Joseph Schmidt and the diva Maria Callas, he pays a tribute to a Hollywood star who is both an actress and a singer: Judy Garland. In An Evening with Judy, the dancer decides to play a «star» with a perfect face and body, and reveals the weaknesses of the woman behind the eternal smile of the myth.
RAIMUND HOGHE
Raimund Hoghe was born in Wuppertal and began his career by writing portraits of outsiders and celebrities for the German weekly newspaper "Die Zeit". These were later compiled in several books. From 1980 to 1990 he worked as dramaturge for Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal which also became the subject matter for two more books. Since 1989 he has been working on his own theatre pieces for various dancers and actors. 1992 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 on 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 books have been translated into several languages and he has presented his performances all over Europe, as well as in North and South America, Asia and Australia. He lives in Düsseldorf 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. Books about his theatre works were published in France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States.
