Raimund Hoghe and Takashi Ueno examine the history of the duet in PAS DE DEUX (photo by Rosa Franks)
Baryshnikov Arts Center, Howard Gilman Performance Space
450 West 37th St. between Ninth & Tenth Aves.
October 10-12, $20, 7:30
866-811-4111
www.bacnyc.org
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German dancer and choreographer Raimund Hoghe made his U.S. debut at FIAF’s 2009 Crossing the Line festival with Boléro Variations and L’Après-midi, followed in 2010 by Sans-titre, his collaboration with Faustin Linyekula, and his site-specific Skyroom Project, in which he examined his blossoming relationship with New York City. Hoghe is back in New York for the 2012 CTL festival, teaming up with Japanese dancer Takashi Ueno for Pas de Deux, another unusual exploration of the art form from one of the dance world’s most iconoclastic characters. (Hoghe and Ueno performed an excerpt from Pas de Deux at the the Cultural Services of the French Embassy as part of the free Fiction & Non-Fiction opening day at the 2011 CTL festival.) Hoghe’s unique sense of stagecraft was influenced by his ten years serving as dramaturge for Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, based in his hometown; he has been creating his own pieces for more than twenty years now, primarily in collaboration with fellow German artist Luca Giacomo Schulte. For Pas de Deux, running October 10-12 at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Hoghe and Ueno don black and yellow costumes and perform alone and together in a minimalist tribute to the centerpiece of classical ballet.