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Raimund Hoghe
L'Après-midi, A Solo for Emmanuel Eggermont

U.S. Premiere
September 26 • [Sat] • 4:00 PM
Admission:
$18.00 ($12.00 for Danspace and FIAF members)

Addition seats have been added!




photo by Rosa Frank










"'L'Après-midi' is a new dreamlike light-bathed solo for Emmanuel Eggermont. Filled with understated movement evocative of yet not imitative of Nijinsky's iconic faun, it floated contemplatively on the music of Debussy and the haunting Lieder of Gustave Mahler. "
- Londondance

In a one-time-only afternoon performance, Danspace Project and the French Institute Alliance Française's Crossing the Line 2009 festival co-present the U.S. premiere of Raimund Hoghe's L'Après-midi at St. Mark's Church. Using Debussy's L'Après-midi d'un faune, Hoghe, a German-based choreographer and former dramaturge for Pina Bausch, creates a solo for Emmanuel Eggermont, which, according to writer Mary Kate Connolly is "a gradual, subtle collage of history, longing, and a neo-classical appreciation of male beauty unfurled."

Hoghe's Boléro Variations will be presented earlier in the week at Dance Theater Workshop as part of Crossing the Line.

L'Après-midi is part of French Institute Alliance Française's Crossing the Line 2009 festival, a festival created and organized by FIAF. US tour is presented with the support of the Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut New York.


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